Good online citizenship is critical for student success.
Preparing Students to Become Good Online Learners module was extremely helpful outlining how to develop good online citizenship among our students. In order for written communication to be effective, the communication must provide students with clear concise instructions, expectations, and rubric for assessment purpose. To reduce or avoid misunderstandings, all communications should be modeled in the CPA format, clear, professional, and appropriate.
Communcation becomes much more important when students cannot hear the tone of your voice or see your facial expression. I liked the CPA acronym because that is an easy way for me to remember when I am posting to a student to keep my language clear, professional and appropriate.
I think there was an overwhelming amount of information about communication. LOL But seriously, i liked the idea of a community of practice. The idea that our pervious knowledge gets applied to new learning situations. There should be a better way of gathering that information from our students and being able to support them.
Being aware of students with learning disabiliyites and addressing immediatley.
Clearly defined expectations and contrucivism is impoartant in online learning.
Students need to understand the importantance of using the computer and becoming good digital citizens. Getting students to participate early and to know that if they participate from the beginning with help with their time managment and not allow the students to get behind. Taking a class online is very different and students must be diciplined with their time and their surroundings. They need to participate in discussion posts to help with their writing because they don't have teachers around to help with their writing.
the key is to help students understand why the content is important to learn and that you care about their achievement of the learning outcomes.
Community. clearly defined expectations and clear communication are essential.
