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TCE 424 The Reflective Practitioner

TCE 424, The Reflective Practitioner, will become a hybrid course this winter term 2013. This course is offered winter and spring term and has anywhere from 15-25 students.  All the students are working towards earning their teaching license at the … Continue reading

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History of Graphic Design

I will be teaching  GD369, History of Graphic Design in the winter term. The course is comprised of 21 Graphic Design majors at the junior level. The course has been taught in the past as a lecture course on campus … Continue reading

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New skills required for hybrid instructors

If the in-class portion of a hybrid course is about small group exercises and synthesis of the online portion of the courses, then new skills are required for the instructor. it is relatively easy to be the sage on the … Continue reading

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Pitfalls and confusion

#2: Let the course management system drive your thinking. In my experience- there are pros and cons to “standardized” designs.  The standardized designs, driven by the template, create consistency across sites.  Even finding my way to this blog was more … Continue reading

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Thinking about course content.

My Web-Enhanced class has been going for three weeks now. One of the main things I have noticed is that since the students are leading the way we are getting much more feedback from the students about how they are … Continue reading

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New York Times article

Hi all, I thought this was an interesting Op Ed, “Long Live Paper” piece on the debate currently on about paper textbooks and digital learning environments.  I wrote a book titled Writing for Visual Thinkers that was first published as … Continue reading

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Pitfalls to Avoid

Hello all, I taught my first online course last spring (2012) and one piece of valuable advice I got from Jon Dorbolo  was to not simply upload your weekly material items and let the students slog through them. If they … Continue reading

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Adjusting the course syllabus

I plan to not just upload my class and call it good when planning for my hybrid course next term. Through the process of working on the class syllabus, I have realized that just taking what I normally do and … Continue reading

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Week 3 work

Working on building Course Content with Assignments, Course Documents, Discussion Board-any tips are appreciated.

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Avoiding Pitfalls

Two of the pitfalls in creating an online or hybrid course are sticking to the role, as the instructor, of the “sage on the stage” and not utilizing ways that students can learn from each other.  As I begin to … Continue reading

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