Vallorie Wood

Blog Comment

I understand what you are saying, and yes, you have to maintain that professional boundary. It can really affect your level of teaching otherwise.

But on the other hand, students do want you to just listen, sometimes, and so I agree with you, Erica, on this point. Lots of times, I really don't know what the situation is they are talking about, but just being the ear to hear and allow them a chance to just air it out to someone really not connected to the situation was what they wanted most--often I find they come back and say thank… >>>

Vallorie Wood

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Skills with Interviews and Resumes

I will put into practice the suggestion of having practice interview sessions. We already do a mock interview, but this will provide a lot better way for them to prepare for the interview held before panelists in the industry for what they're applying (part of a mock company I set up in the course to allow them to have an employer to apply to). In this class, we already work with resume skills, and the idea to have them lists weaknesses, strengths, abilities, etc. was a great first day class activity to get them thinking more about their resumes and… >>>

Vallorie Wood

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Mentoring

Mentoring is absolutely a great way to keep students on track. According to the lesson, and I agree, mentoring needs to be done by those who are great students and enthusiastic about the program--those who are already successful and understand the time management portion of this 'college' learning life.

Vallorie Wood

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Mentoring

Mentoring is absolutely a great way to keep students on track. According to the lesson, and I agree, mentoring needs to be done by those who are great students and enthusiastic about the program--those who are already successful and understand the time management portion of this 'college' learning life.

Vallorie Wood

Discussion Comment

You Tube

You Tube is fabulous. I incorporate it into my on-ground classes, because sometimes all you want to see is that scene. It's taking it online that seems to be problematic. Vimeo is also very good, especially to see, say for example, demo reel samples.

Vallorie Wood

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EDL 110

This course was useful in helping me understand more about social media and the classroom.

I feel that some students, however, have a difficult time embracing social media in the classroom, especially when they are already technologically ill-prepared.

I don't know what the answer to this is, as I am always amazed at the number of students who are not computer-savvy.

Vallorie Wood

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Good use of blogging

I can see that using blogs for proper writing, collaborating, discussions, etc can be quite useful for a blog. Now days, most professional writers are encouraged to have blogs. Blogs though should be written properly and using appropriate grammar and punctuation, spelling, etc. Otherwise, it just becomes a jumble of someone's ideas that may or may not have any educational value.

Vallorie Wood

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Students with Internet difficulties

There are students who have difficulty using the computer just on a day to day basis, much less using twitter or other type outlets. I fear that if we depend on technology too much and rely so heavily on social media, then we are losing much of the face to face interpersonal communication that is much more valuable than twitting.

Vallorie Wood

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You Tube

One problem I have had in an online course was having all my content pulled because we were utilizing videos from youtube. The clips were not that long, and involved film clips for a film class...how can you teach film if you don't look at film. Even uploading the QT file that came with the book became an issue, so I am surprised that youtube videos would be considered as a viable teaching tool.

Vallorie Wood

Discussion

EDL 110

This course was useful in helping me understand more about social media and the classroom.

I feel that some students, however, have a difficult time embracing social media in the classroom, especially when they are already technologically ill-prepared.

I don't know what the answer to this is, as I am always amazed at the number of students who are not computer-savvy.