I was really excited about this OLE assignment because I have been trying to think through how I am going to use a private Facebook group for my Social Media and Events class. While the class will be meeting in person two days a week, it’s an intense, one-credit class that will only last for […] Continue reading Trying Something New
In my courses, I tend to use different types of assessment (both formative and summative) and feedback. For example, I have students turn in pieces of final projects throughout the semester for early feedback/review, but I also give quizzes throughout the semester to ensure that students are listening to what I am saying and reading […] Continue reading Feedback and Assessment
I am teaching Crisis Communication online for the first time in Spring 2016. There will be around 50 public relations majors in the course. It is not a required course but one of few that they are able to choose between. I’ve taught the class face-to-face once before and throughout the semester I had students sign […] Continue reading Asking the Right Questions
After looking at the different Makes for this week I decided that the timeline one could be useful for both of the online classes I’ll be teaching – Intro to Mass Communication and Crisis Communication. I started to create a timeline for my Intro class that highlights major events in the history of mass communication. It is […] Continue reading It takes “time” to get started
“One of the exciting things about the Internet is that anyone with a PC and a modem can publish whatever content they can create.” – Bill Gates As Bill Gates said almost 20 years ago (scary!), the Internet is an invaluable resource for finding content, and I was excited to be able to spend some time […] Continue reading Content is King…or Queen
The class I will be teaching online has only been taught face-to-face in the past, so while I have a lot of resources, I feel like there are definitely some tools I am lacking for making it a successful online course. After looking over my media spreadsheet, I felt that I was really lacking some […] Continue reading Searching For More
Overall, the class has been very helpful and very interesting. I feel like I am learning and ton and really being forced to think outside of the box, which is really necessarily (in my opinion) if a professor is going to be really good at online teaching. I also love that this is not just […] Continue reading Olé, Olé, Olé
So I decided to try an online syllabus for one of my classes next semester. I think it will be helpful for me and the students. One, it will give the students a constant resource to refer back to. I always post my boring paper syllabus on Blackboard but I feel like students never […] Continue reading No More Boring Syllabus
Were the course goals information-centric or did they highlight life-long learning skills? Teaching crisis communication is different than a lot of other classes that can be very tactical. In my opinion, crisis communication courses naturally provide more life-long learning skills … Continue reading → Continue reading The objective is learning
