{"id":1447,"date":"2020-03-13T15:45:48","date_gmt":"2020-03-13T21:45:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jgravesedu.com\/?page_id=1447"},"modified":"2020-03-13T15:55:24","modified_gmt":"2020-03-13T21:55:24","slug":"things-to-consider","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.jgravesedu.com\/?page_id=1447","title":{"rendered":"Things to Consider&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Teaching online is harder and more time-consuming that teaching face to face, but is very rewarding!<\/li><li>Avoid the mistake of simply posting lecture videos and calling it good.  Students&#8217; online attention span is 10-15 minutes.  You don&#8217;t have the luxury of reading faces, gestures, yawns and laughs online.  Chunk video content into shorter segments.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jgravesedu.com\/?p=135\">Watch my presentation on podcasting<\/a>.<\/li><li>Determine what is MOST important in terms of course content.  We think that everything we profess is important, but given the nature of online, be selective.  I suggest choosing 1 or maybe 2 topics per week.  Try to include as many methods of learning the content as possible&#8230;videos, readings, activities and online discussions.  Review my online discussion resources.<\/li><li>Work hard to establish online culture&#8230;make your presence known.  Post a short video of yourself, even if students know you from a face to face course.  If the course is being taken from the classroom to online due to extenuating circumstance, reassure students that you have everything under control, adjustments to assignment\/grade will be made as a result of the transition, and if they hang with you, they WILL complete the course.<\/li><li>Consider altering assignments and grading approaches during the transition to online.  Reflection papers on the week&#8217;s content, participation in discussion, short podcasts\/videos that the students produce, info graphics, Powerpoint presentations, images of notebook entries and discussion rubrics are great weekly assessment strategies.<\/li><li>Maintain on online presence&#8230;did I mention students need to know you have this under control?  That doesn&#8217;t mean you are online all the time 24\/7, but you can make it appear that way \ud83d\ude42  Committing to being online daily, answering email messages promptly and creating a reasonable and predictable expectation for returning assignments is key.  I give myself one week to return assignments.  I tell students they can call me if they have questions. Not all instructor are comfortable with this, so you make the call.  However, I have found that no one has abused that offer in the nearly 25 years I&#8217;ve taught online.<\/li><li>Say it, say it and say it again.  When creating your online course, you can&#8217;t overstate anything.  Just because some fine point is buried on page 6 of your syllabus doesn&#8217;t mean students will find it.  Be very clear about expectations and state them repeatedly.<\/li><li>Be aware that technology is fickle.  Online delivery systems crash, connectivity issues will happen, students may be trying to do their work on a phone or tablet and find there are issues.  Just know it&#8217;s going to happen and make accommodations accordingly.<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Teaching online is harder and more time-consuming that teaching face to face, but is very rewarding! Avoid the mistake of simply posting lecture videos and calling it good. Students&#8217; online attention span is 10-15 minutes. You don&#8217;t have the luxury &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jgravesedu.com\/?page_id=1447\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1447","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jgravesedu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jgravesedu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jgravesedu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jgravesedu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jgravesedu.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1447"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.jgravesedu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1447\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1454,"href":"https:\/\/www.jgravesedu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1447\/revisions\/1454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jgravesedu.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}