Kelly Wilkinson

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Cathy, Great answer! You really have to find your way as an instructor to figure out the "cues" and the patterns of online behaviors. Dr. Kelly Wilkinson

Kelly Wilkinson

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Different Roles for Online Facilitators

Greg, You are right and you may be the one contact the students have to the institution. Dr. Kelly Wilkinson

Kelly Wilkinson

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Establishing a Teaching Pattern

Greg, Great post, I agree with you about having a centralized location. You also have to continue to point students to that information. . . consistently. Dr. Kelly Wilkinson

Kelly Wilkinson

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Virtual Environment Technology Tools

Greg, True, and many times students blame the instructor for the problem(s). You don't want the technology to be the barrier to the learning. Dr. Kelly Wilkinson

Kelly Wilkinson

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Different Roles for Online Facilitators

Cathy, I LOVE this! What great way of looking at it. This is going part of my research comments. We do need to make sure we communicate in a variety of ways using a variety of techniques. Dr. Kelly Wilkinson

Kelly Wilkinson

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Different Roles for Online Facilitators

Cathy, That is a great addition to the shoe collection! You do have to make sure we listen to everything that means reading everything! Dr. Kelly Wilkinson

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Purposes of Blogs

Christopher, It won't happen unless you let it. Students will rise to the expectations. I actually use microblogging to teach concise writing. Students know there are expectations of grammar, punctuation and word usage by the instruction and the rubric I use to evaluate the assignment. Dr. Kelly Wilkinson

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Content Development

Christopher, Your use of social media must be be tied to the objectives. You don't use social media just to use it. Dr. Kelly Wilkinson

Kelly Wilkinson

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Purpose of Social Networking

Christopher, True, and students really need to be aware of how "close people are in social media. Dr. Kelly Wilkinson

Kelly Wilkinson

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Successful Online Learning Techniques

Ester, Wow, you said a block full and you are right. You hold your students to high expectations and you articulate those expectations in a variety of ways. You did hit one of my "issues" ( I have a few:)) and that is the excuse "I tried to do the work" . I have actually said "I tried in my first marriage and it still failed", probably not one of my finest moments. You want their best work as they need to have pride in their work. I have stopped calling grading "grading" . I now call it evaluation and… >>>