Month: April 2019

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Create an online repository for students to ask autonomous (or not) questions

  • Idea being to create a repository of questions asked about course content from current students, so future students can see and learn from them as well
  • I could respond to some questions by video or other non-text based ways (drawing out a concept)
  • Questions could be grouped to modules to help organize
  • Could be implemented as some type of wiki, to allow others to add to it if they have ways of answering.
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Introductory Video

  • a link to the source of the activity;

Instructor Strategies

https://wave.video/blog/how-to-nail-your-introductory-video-script/

  • Aim to support my goals of creating a more personalized/authentic course experience. Put a face to my name in hopes that it may make it easier to students to ask questions when they have them.
  • Contact OL for options into a webcam
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Enhancing Social Presence

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Describe the ways in which your introductory post should have enhanced social presence in a course that you teach

Identify at least one improvement that you might make in light of what you know about social presence since completing your first post, and

  • I am considering creating video introductions to accompany the text based ones I already make. My hope is that using the audio/visual makes the introduction sound more authentic and engaging. Depending on some factors, such as number of students, I may be able to make a unique video for each student.
  • I may dedicate too much of my introductory communication to the format of the course. Instead, maybe I can dedicate more of the content towards trying to connect the student to the content.
  • I could take steps to make the introductory post a little bit lighter. At this point in time it my introductory post does not use that many words. To be honest though, I write it with an assumption that the student I am sending it to will likely not respond. This may lead me to trying to get all of what I want to say out in that initial contact, which in turn may mean the student does not feel they have to respond.Describe how your thinking about social presence has changed since your first post.

     

  • I don’t believe my thinking about social presence has changed too much since my first post. Looking at my first post it shows signs of intent to build social presence, such as:
    • Use of humor (whether it is funny or not is up for debate of course 😉 )
    • Used symbols/emoticons to try and convey emotion
    • Participated in self-disclosure
  • While not significantly changing, my thinking on social presence is becoming more refined.

Cael