Tuesday, October 6, 2009

Orientation and Week 1

We're going very quickly so far this term. I opened the course for orientation week on the 28th of September, and the teachers have been very active in posting already. As a result, we're moving blogging from Week 2 to this week, Week 1. There are three blogs so far that all look pretty good. I have high hopes that this group will do very well with their reflective blogs and with the rest of the course.

The key now is encouraging people to respond to each other, not just to the discussion prompts. I'll need to think about ways to frame the questions so that they encourage people to interact with each other. Each person has a lot of expertise to contribute to the group, so it's a matter of enabling better intra-group interaction. Food for thought.

I will probably restate some of the prompts from last week and add some new readings - we'll see if that helps.

All in all, though, it's been a very good start!

--Deborah

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