Last week, I was in Vail for the eLCC conference. These conferences are great. You get to talk to colleagues from other schools and in other disciplines to hear about what they are doing. Also, you get to talk to other online instructors and get new ideas of cool things you can put in your courses.
The problem is now many of us have been teaching long enough our courses look like a tool bucket in the garage. Lots of tools which all work. That's the problem, there's too many tools and not enough focus on the work to be done with them.
So, instead of looking at the tools to decide what you want to do with your class, first look at the problem you need solved. Do you need more interaction between students? Do you need to motivate students to login to D2L more? Perhaps rewriting your discussions is better for learning than embedding captioned YouTube video into a class Facebook fan page. Let the course lead you to the right tool. This is when it helps to have a full bucket to pull from.
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