Best+Practices

= = Best Practices for Online Teaching


 * Facilitating Interaction Between Students **
 * **Use “icebreakers” ** and other social games to help students get to know each other.
 * **Provide spaces **, such as chat rooms, for students to interact without interference from the instructor
 * **Require interaction ** in some of the assignments to help facilitate interaction among students.


 * Maintaining Contact Between the Instructor and the Students **
 * **Maintain regular ****contact with all students ** that is consistent and planned (for example weekly screencasts describing work for the week posted at the same day and time each week)
 * **Provide additional contact for individual students **as needed through a specified schedule of feedback, an individual discussion area for one-on-one questions, etc.
 * **Respond to Students **’ emails, questions, and assignments in a timely fashion.


 * Setting up a Multimodel Studio Workshop Approach to Learning **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">The faculty member should **model the use of any technology** tools that they expect students to use for image, text, audio, and video production.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">The faculty member should design assignments to **allow students to practice any technology tools** that they will be expected to use for image, text, and/or video production.


 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Suggestions for Online Assignments **
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 14.6667px;">Post handouts ahead of due dates **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 14.6667px;"> so students see where we are going and can plan ahead.
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 14.6667px;">Post a schedule **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 14.6667px;"> that is accurate or as accurate as possible.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 14.6667px;">**Provide clear directions** as to when the assignment is due
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 14.6667px;">**Provide clear instructions** on how and where to turn the assignment in (drop box, discussion board, etc.)