Online Classroom - May, 2010 - Full Issue PDF
• Interview with Susan Ko, Coauthor of Teaching Online: A Practical Guide
It’s been 10 years since the publication of Teaching Online: A Practical Guide by Susan Ko and Steve Rossen. Now in its third edition, we thought now was a good time to review some of the developments of the past decade with one of its authors. http://www.magnapubs.com/issues/magnapubs_oc/10_5/news/603441-1.html
• Tips from the Pros: Use Online Quizzes to Engage Students
In his recent Magna Online Seminar, Organizing Blended Courses for Optimal Student Engagement, Ike Shibley, associate professor of chemistry at Penn State Berks, offered the following advice on creating and using online quizzes. http://www.magnapubs.com/issues/magnapubs_oc/10_5/news/603442-1.html
• Online Teaching Fundamentals: PowerPoint for Online Courses, Part 2: Good and Bad Text
PowerPoint often gets a bad rap as an instructional tool, but the bad rap really should be for poor use of the tool. In this series of articles, I’ll provide information about how to improve your use of PowerPoint as an online teaching and learning tool. http://www.magnapubs.com/issues/magnapubs_oc/10_5/news/603443-1.html
• Teaching Online With Errol: The Crazies of Online Teaching: How to Prevent Them, How to Tame Them
They lurk throughout online courses: those crazies—problems—of online teaching that try and keep us from having a smooth, enjoyable, and quality experience as we interact with our students and our courses. And no one who teaches online escapes them—some are major, some are minor, but they are always lurking and often seem to jump out at us when we least expect them. Yet they can be brought to their knees; they can be banished if a cool, methodical approach is taken. http://www.magnapubs.com/issues/magnapubs_oc/10_5/news/603444-1.html
• Get Your Online Course Off to a Good Start
The beginning of an online course is a critical time in which the instructor establishes expectations, sets the tone, and helps students navigate the course.Here are some points to consider for the time leading up to and including that first week. http://www.magnapubs.com/issues/magnapubs_oc/10_5/news/603445-1.html
Please let us know what topics are important to you! If you have a suggestion for an article for a future issue of this newsletter, contact us at editor@magnapubs.com
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