Chapter 7 Blog

In this chapter I learned about about the potential of students accessing inappropiate sites on the internet and how it may be avoided. To prevent inappropiate uses by student, schools can install firewall software or filtering software. I also learned about different feature that teachers can use to effectively communicate with their students. These features include things like e-mail, listserv, bulletin board, and blogs. The final thing that i learned about was distance learning and how it can be made effective for students success. Its qualities include things like  fast access to information, Access to experts not available locally, fast communication among groups, access to learning materials, access to courses that are not locally available, and much more.

Teachers could use listservs and bulletin board to effectivly communicate important materials with their students that may have not been mentioned in class. Teachers could also use blogs to post information for students and it also gives them the ability to post feedback to the teacher. Secondly teachers could use online classroom materials to help them teach a specific topic that they may not know much information about. Teachers could also use web based lessons to help them structure and organize their lessons which makes things much easier to follow and provides students with a well organized plan for the course.

One question that I have for this material i when you are using online coarse material, how much  of it do you incorporate into your class so that the students are not overloaded beyween a face to face class and material online?