Online Class 2 @One!

Building Online Community
with Social Media

Unit 1: Getting Started
in Building Online Community 

This week, I learned the importance of humanizing our online classes. I had to create a 100 word intro with a “selfie” and post to the Discussion Board as an introduction to my classmates. I had never taken and selfie –and that was the last of it… I prefer when someone takes a picture of me, so the blended/online classes I will teach, I will ask a family member or a friend to take my pic! : )

Another activity that I enjoyed was the online game: “two truths and a lie” where you have to reveal the lie at the end of the week –after two or three students have commented on what they think is true or false about you.

This class is using the Learning Management System (LMS) Moodle, so it has been a challenge just learning how to navigate this LMS. I can clearly understand the CA Online Education Initiative which is trying to migrate all the classes to just one LMS across CA --Hello CANVAS! Let's see what MiraCosta College decides this semester. If they select CANVAS as our next LMS, I will have to transfer all the content I am creating.