Food for thought first week UO Webskills

This first week is about to finish, there is a lot of information and new tools and applications that we've discovered and explored with Robert the e-Teacher in charge of the class: 

1. Interaction on a fully online-virtual program with students from around the world

2. The need to state rules for discussion ,course evaluation  and tasks

3.  Discovering Nicenet as a platform for English teaching and class management, is a free, simple and light platform as Robert says. 

3.Use of google maps to practice some Internet skills and also to have students practice English

4. Creating and managing a blog with Blogger

5. Using google-drive forms as a survey tool

Some conclusions

a. It is important to practice and learn more about the potential of google maps as a blended learning tool 

b. Nicenet gives more control to the teacher than google groups in terms of discussion control and new threads

c.  It is hard to have the students participate and engage in learning process so, the number of posts should be described in a class rubric or ground rules

d. If you are going to generate a discussion activities plan the rules and make sure students understand them, so they don't spam, make no sense comments, respect others opinion and benefit of the process