Cathy Arreguin

• creating a learning environment that fosters rich interaction between students and me, and gets students interacting with each other.
• WordPress and a suite of plug ins called Buddypress, I create a “social network”
• blogs for all students, a course activity feed, forums, work groups, and integration of other social tools.
• Panopto to record lectures.
• the use of video in online teaching
• Blackboard Collaborate to have weekly live video conference sessions.
• Blackboard Instant Messaging (IM)
• Twitter
• Twitter
• focus on play and experimentation
• “Everything is beta
• Michael Wesch from the University of Kansas
• “My main point is that participatory teaching methods simply will not work if they do not begin with a deep bond between teacher and student.  Importantly, this bond must be built through mutual respect, care, and an ongoing effort to know and understand one another.”

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• But the program will be designed to steer students toward a follow-up course for $1,200 to get a professional certificate.
• Students who finish the self-paced course, which is expected to take most of them about one month, will receive letters of completion.
• Those who choose to go on can enroll in the second part of the course, which will take about three months.
• assume the role of marketing manager for a fictitious hotel in Baltimore, where they will devise a social- and new-media strategy to bring in more customers and attract positive online reviews.
• apply the principles they’re learning
• 24-hour access to an “academic support team
• discussion boards
• videos of experts

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