Alysia Barraro

Being generally fimilar with the different ways to commuicate online will help students learn other sytems faster. Use different platforms in your online to keep things enganged. 

Making sure students are being good citizens in their course and using proper work ethinc is very imporatnt. Set them up to commuincate, to work harder, to grow and expand their minds. Hold them to higher standards right away and they will except nothing less. 

As the online instructor set the tone early what is expected from your students as online learners. You need a work space you can focus, you need the right techology, you need to dedicate time to the course, more reading will be required, follow the code of conduct when communicating. It's a lot of expectation at first but once a student becomes an active and engaged online learner, it becomes second nature. 

Use a rubric with commuincation so there is no questions as to what is expected out of the sfudens. Have the students review the conduct code so they also know what they should be following. 

It is important to commuinicate as much as possible in an online class so all students are on the sam page, getting the right information, and clearning up questions/concerns. Maintain positive feedback, use clear language and keep it simple. Make sure you are avaiable to answer questions. 

I have learned you must set standards and expectations right away in communicating online. Tell your students only respectful comments will be tolerated, no disresecptful lanuage. In additon, help students work together by letting them communicate together to ask quesitons. 

There is so many great ways to communicate with students online. Email, social media, your online forum. I have foudn that with my younger students they are more than likely to respond to me if I send them a text. If I call first chances are they will not answer. 

Taking the time to revise your course is critial for the learners. Making sure you information is up to date is important. Fixing any mistakes, misleading informations, seeing if you can teach or word a concept in a more efficent way. All important steps that need to happen in order to ensure students are learning. Testing your students knowledge of the information in the course is so important. I hated when a teacher would give us one large test at the end and we had to remember it all instead of little test along the way. It important to have… >>>

It's important to have a clear standards listed on a rubric so students know exactly how they will be graded and what standards they must live up to. I personally never liked peer grading--I did however, benefit from peer review before I turned an assignment in. 

Scaffolding is very important in helping students begin to build on different topics, while learning and processing communication.