Training+Teachers+to+Teach+Online

Presented by Joy Lopez, adjunct at SFSU Teaching high school courses online

What makes a good online student? Gave a survey to teachers. How do you build community in your ground based class? how do you have those same discussions online? What is the role of the student in formation community?

Video: This is what an online community means to me... YouTube

Tips: When to respond and when to stay silents - remember wait time is important after answering a question Choose your words carefully Keyboard bravery - students suddenly are a lot braver with their words because they are used anonymity. Remind students that this is a classroom and that behavior is inappropriate.

Types of virtual learning asynchronous synchronous hybrid - classroom based (online resource) hybrid - non classroom based (occasional physical meetings)

Post classroom expectations Netiquette Availability
 * What does late work mean? How does that work.
 * formulate norms for online behavior
 * Importance of rules and regulations
 * Discipline: talk to privately online, and then there are ways to block students from contributing, or you can drop them.
 * formal writing on threaded discussions,
 * informal writing on chat.
 * text, phone, email which one(s) will you use
 * post times okay to call
 * post days to call
 * set limits

Face to face time is used for lab, hands on activities, English - socratic seminars History - meet at museum

Designing with the end in mind Chunk the content Provide concise instructions-let them be able to get their own help Scaffold Reflective practice
 * Building it:**

provide student with feedback all the way through the documents they submit allow them to resubmit Critique teachers on how to respond appropriately to their classmates or students. Student dissappointment (technical difficulty on the student or teacher's end, or maybe embellishing truth) Lack of communication is a common complaint from the student
 * Online grading and feedback:**
 * information feedback
 * acknowledgement feedback

Teaching online takes a lot of time. 10 people in a virtual class.

In expectation require posting per week, chat participation, projects sent in on time. Learn student voice and you will be able to tell what is their work. Turnitin.com
 * Attendance:**

Students who would normally not talked to each other because of appearance will talk Stuttering students gain respect from classmates in an online course.
 * Plusses:**

Books Building online learning communities:Effective strategies for the virtual classroom (Paloff and Pratt) Lessons from the cyberspace classroom: The realities of online teaching (Paloff and Pratt)