Make sure to include all or, at least most, of the following types of media/learning modules in your online class:
- Photos
- Create photo albums using Flickr, Photobucket, or Picasa
- Pictures of historical figures, places, events, rituals, etc., can draw the student closer to the course material
- Documentaries
- There are lots of free documentaries, movies, and videos out in the internet. Don't worry about copyright, as long as you are not profiting from screening the movies/documentaries, then you should be covered by the Fair Use doctrine in the US Copyright Law.
- Powerpoints
- Do not overload your powerpoint slides with paragraphs.
- Recorded Lectures - audio and/or visual of professor lecturing
- Links to important websites
- Provide your students with resources to writing styles, academic journals, scholarly databases, and any website you feel is relevant to the course.
- Music - upload contemporary music for the epochs you are studying, if appropriate for the subject. You can link the students to the songs, if you do not own them.
- Discussion Boards
- Have students respond to a topic and make them respond to at least three other posts through out a data range.
- Audio clips
- If appropriate to your course, include radio clips and/or lecture clips
- News clips
- Post relevant news stories/reports and have students discuss them
- Journals
- If appropriate for your course, make the students keep a weekly blog or journal of their reactions to the course material. The more the students engage the content, the better they will do on their exams and essays.
- Site Visits
- If appropriate for the course, have the students write a report on a business, institution, or organization by having them visit the actual location.
- Since you may have students from all around the world taking your online course, make sure they clear the location with you before they select the site.
- Interviews
- If appropriate for the course, have your students conduct interviews to develop their investigative reporting skills.
- Examples of previously submitted papers, showing formatting and writing styles
- You should inform your students at the beginning of the semester what level of work you expect from them.
- Post Readings/Articles
- Scan articles/chapters from books instead of making your students more money (the tuition gets more expensive each year)
- Assign ebooks
- Search for pdfs on the internet (almost all universities have access to tons of virtual libraries and databases)
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