Nancy Tosh

The tips for work/life balance were excellent. This is an area where I have long had issues. I am working on only working during specific hours and hope that will help.

Nancy Tosh

I had not thought about how much management and organization were essential in teaching. I also liked the focus on how diverse online teacher schedules may be and how many individual factors go into making up a good schedule.

Nancy Tosh

Universal design helps prevent the need to overhaul courses. I also think a course designed with universal design in mind will be better for all students.

Nancy Tosh

I learned that LMS courses are not always designed with accommodations in mind and that these courses may be hard (if not impossible) for some students with disabilities to navigate and utilize.

Nancy Tosh

I learned that providing accommodations extends outside of the classroom. I know now that if I have a student with a disability who needs to use the library, that they can expect the library to have accommodations. I want to find out who to direct them to at our library.

As someone with a seizure disorder and migraines, I'm so happy to see you had the flashy transition example here. I have too often been made ill at worse or made confused and befuddled at best by this sort of thing. I like that you talked about a huge variety of disorders -- visible and invisible. 

Nancy Tosh

I like the idea of authoring a blog as an addition to working in the classroom. I have known collegues who have blogs, vlogs, or webpages where they share their research. 

I thought the information about TweetDeck was interesting -- in terms of research for class material moreso than for use in the classroom. I do not think microblogging will be a part of any of the courses I teach, but it was interesting to think about.

Nancy Tosh

This material was not all that useful because I am pretty much restricted to the LMS and the school's website -- so hosting my own site is not an option. The material on various channels on YouTube and other great sources for teachers and students was valuable. I use YouTube a lot and have a number of favorite channels. My own videos are there as well.

Nancy Tosh

When I first entered graduate school in the 1990s, one professor told us to get access to the Internet or be left behind as an academic. At the time, there were various chats and bulletin boards for various topics of academia. I'm not sure how many of these still exist. Social media is something different and potentially far more hazardous for students. As a sociologist, I can see several research topics that could involve students studying social media sites. 

Nancy Tosh