Presence and Interaction
By the end of this course, students should:
- Demonstrate how to effectively moderate a class discussion board that ensures a productive exchange with a genuine audience and develops a course community. (3.10 & 11.2)
- Create online assignments, exercises, and activities in smaller units that increase opportunities for instructor-student and student-student interaction to enable and enact knowledge-construction and emphasize traditional rhetorical theories. (4.1, 4.3 & 4.4)
- Identify methods of engaging with students and interacting in online writing courses that use digital environments to extend classroom interaction, develop rhetorical understanding of online audiences, and keep students informed of assignments, grades, and policies. (4.4)
- Demonstrate how to engage in learner-centered, writing-intensive pedagogies via electronic means (i.e., informal writing, collaborative invention and writing, online research, and teacher and peer review of work in progress). (4.5 & 11.5)
- Demonstrate how feedback from teacher to student and students to teacher can operate in an online class to take advantage of the online environment (i.e., timely instructor feedback, opportunities for students to respond to the class and instructor feedback, etc.). (11.4 & 11.7)