I think my biggest lesson learned from this course is the importance of setting the correct tone for effective communication at the beginning of the course while reflecting generational and personality differences.  

I have found the weighting of elements within a grading rubric to be a challenge.  No one wants to set a student up to fail and I have seen many rubrics that do just that.   With one or two letter grades being wiped away by a single mistake or deficiency.    What techniques have been used in the past to assure fair weighting of each element in the rubric while providing the instructor enough latitude to apply their discretion to the quality of the students work?

This course was informative. I especially enjoyed the use of ruberics and communicaiton protocol.

I found this class really interesting, I didn't understand how social media fit in with OInline Edcuation, but i can see that it expands the ways students can learn and provides new tools for learning. Liked this class a lot. 

I'm curious about other social networking sites, does anyone have some suggestions?

This course on social media and the classroom was a great eye opener. Often, I have wanted to include more of this into the classroom but have not had great development models and tools.  This course helped provide a great framework to learn from.

Just like any other networking site, Facebook does have length requirements when it comes to writing on the wall, status, message and comment sections. For instance, private messaging is used as an email within Facebook. Private messaging can come as an instant message (chat), or a regular email-type message. For instant messaging, there is a 5000 character limit. Regular messaging provides also 5000 character limit.

A Facebook status is another area that has a character limit as well. The limit for the status has been raised to 63,206 characters. Previously, it was 5,000 but it has been raised 12… >>>

Blogging and making proper use of Bloggs is the main responsibility of instructor. Proper guidance have to be given to students so that online netiquitte is followed. The instructor does set an example for students to follow.

Blogging is a excellent use of Social media. The responsibility falls on the instructor to set guidelines. It is important that proper online netiquitte is followed by students and instructor gives the proper directions to assure the thing sthat are poasted online.