Janet Smith Stasiak

As stated, identifying your teaching style and technology tools to facilitate your teaching helps provide students with a learning process so they can achieve course outcomes.

ISD is well explained and there a logical steps for breaking down the course content and moving it to an online platform.

This lesson covers the basics of course components.

Synchronous discussions may be more beneficial when guest speakers are utilized so that students can ask questions.

Navigational simplicity is integral to successful online learning, particularly because there is such variety in student's experience and comfort level using educational technology.

The content and number of posts should be part of the assessment.  Students should be given the rubric up front so they know the grading criteria. 

Microblogging forces students (and myself) to be succinct and concise due to word limitations.

Media hosting and sharing sites provide an opportunity to supplement or enhance any course.

Although this course presents interesting concepts for incorporating social media in learning, I think there are two rather large caveats.  General social media sites are highly restricted by most universities and there are inherent problems of posting as your professional self in these forums ie. too many people have been fired for posting something on Facebook that they thought was ok, but wasn't.  I understand the concept, but I would be wary of not using university approved social media sites.

Just as in business, there is value to 360 degree evaluations.  As an instructor, your work must have value-add for each stakeholder including students, other faculty, and the university.  It makes sense that each of these stakeholders will have different views of your work and will therefore be different.