This blog post will focus on technology and if it can encourage or limit online classroom discussion. In today’s classrooms, all teachers are encouraged to integrate technology into the classroom, but as an online instructor integrating technology can sometimes be challenging.  As learners and people, we use technology daily, but when in online discussion, assignments, and communication instructors use technology every time they log on to the classroom. For this discussion, we want to evaluate if technology is limiting or encouraging classroom communication with instructors during a discussion, group projects, and vital communication.

 

    As you are writing this discussion, think about some things:

 

·   What technology do you use when answering a discussion question?

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·   How do you communication synchronously or asynchronously when                   working on a project with other students?

      

·  Does technology encourage or limit your effectiveness in an online classroom?

        

 

 

Day 4 Post your thoughts on technology list a technology that is encouraging and limiting to the online community and give uses of how it will promote learning in the online community. Also, provide examples of technology that is limiting to the online community and provide examples of how they are limiting.

 

Day 7

 

Post responds to two or more classmates:

 

·        Offer support or opinion of the response

·        Give a validating response

·        Use any resources that is given

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The Structure of Discussions in an Online Communication Course: What Do Students Find Most Effective?

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Click below to view the rubric the  discussion will be graded on.

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