Technology Serving Learning Winter 2004 Institute
Mechanics of Teaching Online in Fall 2003
1:00 - 4:45 PM, Monday, January 12, 2004
Dave Starrett
Topics:
  • Creating an OIS Class
    • Downloading students
    • New Manager features
  • New Southeast Keys Emails
    • Changeover
    • Implications to teaching online
    • Potential problems
  • Best Practices
Sample best practices
  1. Editing student work in Microsoft Word - a case for the OIS Dropbox

    We could accept term papers, formal reports, and other essay-style work through e-mail attachments. Using OIS Dropbox, however, offers some important advantages. Regardless of the delivery system, Microsoft Word offers several ways to edit student work.
     
  2. E-mail etiquette
     
    1. Set up a folder for each class in your e-mail client, and get in the habit of moving each class-related e-mail to the folder as soon as you have acted on it. This gives you an archive of e-mail traffic - invaluable for resolving grade disputes, etc!
    2. Studies show that students expect a response to an e-mail within 24-48 hours. Don't let e-mails "pile up".
    3. Create and use a signature file that includes contact info.
    4. When sending a batch of e-mails to your class, put e-mail addresses in the BCC line. DO NOT use CC, because some e-mail facilities will shunt the e-mail to a junk file or Spam file if there are many names in the CC line. Warn students about this! Some e-mail junk or spam files will stop accepting new messages when the file reaches a certain size; if a course-related e-mail is treated as spam, it might get lost!
       
  3. Tips on printing Web pages
     
    1. Instruct students to print Web pages in Landscape mode, not Portrait mode. This setting is changed in Page Setup within File. Landscape avoids printing only text on the left-hand text.
    2. Try not to use highly colored images or other features on your Web pages: they consume ink or toner at a prodigious rate when printed!
       
  4. Online Best Practices
     
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