Faculty spent time working on their online course. Peggy provided two suggestions. Gordon Hensley, a previous DLMG member, uses a weekly reminder for his online class. He emailed Peggy a copy and she shared it with the group:

FYI, This is what I send students weekly, I thought you might be interested in seeing how I'm running this show! -Gordon

THE 111 Online

Update TIP/FACT/LINK OF THE WEEK: Did you know it's bad luck to whistle in the theatre? Win 5 extra credit points by being the first Email to Prof. Hensley with the explanation!

CLASS PROGRESS: Module 2 links were great for the most part!  The play critiques were fun to read also, some people loved it, others hated it.  As long as you give it a fair critique, you're doing a fine job.

Distribution for Module 2 Quiz

Statistics:
Graded out of: 100.0 Number of records: 17		Highest grade: 100.0 Lowest grade: 0.0		Mean grade: 59.4 Median grade: 70.0

 

Some folks are not making the deadlines.  Please pay attention to the time, as you have an entire month to complete each module.  Your classmates wrote some great time-keeping ideas on the discussion board: "SET those hours and KEEP those hours" "Pick a day or two where you will work on your class each week and then make a commitment to complete a certain amount of work on those days." "I print out all of the due dates ahead of time, print out all the homework due and then finish it, whether it is the night before or the hour before it is due." "I like to program due dates in my phone the day before so my phone rings at me and I am reminded about a school project."

"I think that keeping track of the due dates and doing a little bit every week really helps."

NEXT DEADLINE: Module 3 - THURSDAY March 31st, 5:00 p.m.

REMINDERS: Get tickets for the next show when you can!

 

Some faculty were interested in obtaining clip art and other graphics to spice up their course. These are some resources for you to consider:

 

Three sites that provide copyright-friendly photographs for use on the web:

Flickr http://www.flickr.com/creativecommons/

Pics 4 Learning http://www.pics4learning.com

Stock xchng http://www.sxc.hu/

 

Clip Art Resource

Open a Word document. From the toolbar select Insert , then Picture , then Clip Art .

 

In the Search For box that appears on the right side of the Word document, type in the name of what you'd like to find, e.g. "wolf". A series of wolf clip art will appear. Double click on the one you like and it will be inserted into your Word document. You can resize the clip art as desired.

 

 

Public Domain Images and Music

 

American Memory Project (Library of Congress) http://memory.loc.gov/ammem

NASA Image Exchange http://nix.nasa.gov and http://images.jsc.nasa.gov

Public Domain Music http://www.pdinfo.com/list.htm

Choral Public Domain Library - free choral sheet music http://www.cpdl.org

 

 

Useful Sites for Links You May Want to Use in Your Course 

 

National Public Radio (NPR) interviews. http://www.npr.org/ A large number of fascinating interviews are available to you at this site.

A number of very expensive videos are available for free viewing at the Annenberg Media site. Go to http://www.learner.org/index.html Type in your discipline in the Teacher Resources search tool at this site.