Jim’s viewable streams of thought

This Module came in like a lamb and went out like a lion.  I started the week fairly comfortable in what was happening in my future online course; I had drafted a rough outline used many of the guidelines from the “keys to success” and the online course tours, posted in the discussion area thinking I had plenty of time to write up the learning activities draft since I have taught this course for going on 8 years in a f2f environment.  As usual, I guessed wrong in terms of how much time I thought it would take me to think of appropriate online activities and then complete the draft.  When drafting an online course everything must be typed into text and then added to the course management system.  This takes much more time than one could realistically plan and realization doesn’t occur until you actually start going through the process.  I’m used to giving much of the information orally but didn’t know how much I relied on the f2f environment for communicating the course information. 

So what you may say…  What I’m really coming to grips with is how much the students might not be actually understanding when I communicate orally.  How much of this information is not remembered?  Should not most of this information already have been somewhere in text in my computer files?  Even though I have no plans to teach a totally online course next year in AP psychology, I know my future psychology students will most likely benefit from the most amount of time I’ve ever put into the design of their course.

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