Best,
Clark Shah-Nelson

2. start categorizing and tagging your posts to organize them and make them more searchable.

3. add links to the course blogs in your link roll.

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Keep in mind that for the better part of the last 14 years i have trained over 3,000 online faculty that did not have tech enhanced or blended courses… they started at the full online end of that online interaction continuum. What i learned from you during our discussion is that this model could be misinterpreted in that way. The continuum is of incremental advances in amount of technology-enhanced interaction, not meant to imply a progression of faculty advancement toward fully online instruction… i am still processing what this insight means to me and to the process illustration…. : )

I was most interested in your final observation and would love to hear more about that.

Thanks for sharing your comments on the factors that contribute to success online with me and the world.

Why do you love teaching?

I am not really sure i see depth in your reflections on each of the key elements. Your comments are kinda superficial observations, and i don’t get a sense of “seeing” you or where you are in all this.

i guess i had hoped that you would see that it is not enough to have any one of these elements… that you have to have them all working right for it to work… right? you can have the most slammin’ online course design, you can use the most effective online course management strategies, you can have everything set up before the first day, but if the students can’t get in to your course for any reason… it becomes only about the technology real quick… (so it is about the technology not just about the pedagogy in reality to a certain extent… see what i mean?) You need to have that institutional and administrative support to make sure that you can concentration on teaching and your students can focus on learning… there are interdependencies that are balanced among these 5 elements that if any of them are out of balance have a negative impact on the ability to be successful.

i would want to know from you what each means to you, how you interpret them, how you are applying them/or how they apply to you, what challenges you are facing in each area, what you think about them… etc. not just observation but some self analysis mixed in…

you are doing a great job, don’t get me wrong here… i just want more.

ps. i get up at 3am every day on weekdays : )

me

don’t forget your self-evaluations. Also, don’t be so hard on yourself. You have a tendency to rate yourself low. : )

Thanks for clarifying that for me, I had an idea, but when the word came up to me in the self test, I just did not recognize it.

Thanks again

Jarrod

From the website above.

“In word processing, a feature that causes the word processor to force all text to fit within the defined margins. When you fill one line with text, the word processor automatically jumps to the next line so that you are not required to keep track of line lengths and to press the Return key after each line. The word processor divides lines in such a way that a word is never split between two lines (unless the word processor supports hyphenation).
Word wrap also occurs if you change the margins. In this case, the word processor readjusts all the text so that it fits within the new margins.

Note that word wrap inserts a soft return at the end of each line, not a hard return. Soft returns are invisible codes that the word processor utilizes. Hard returns are real characters inserted into the document.

Some word processors allow you to turn off the word-wrap feature. This is useful for writing programs and other types of formatted text where you want complete control over new lines.

Here is some info to help explain Word Wrap:

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http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/w/word_wrap.htm

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I too found the information on DiBlasi very significant and something that really needs to utilized by education. I have just started using the blogs this year and hope I am able to catch up and keep up in the years to come.

Since you offered, I’ll ask you. I got one wrong on the basic skills test in that I did not know how to auto text wrap or even where to find it. The closest I found on my PC is Auto Format. I know pretty much what it does, but can’t find it to use it. Can you help me here?

Thanks for sharing your reflections.

Jarrod