Those Early Morning Messages.....

I have Moodle set to send all the messages you post to my email account. In general, this is a good practice for me since it helps me stay updated on what is happening in our discussion groups. Occasionally, this creates an overload of email for me, but I tend to have an overload of email anyway.! I have noticed that we have a lot of early morning activity among the students in our class and I have come to look forward to starting my day reading these early morning posts. It is a good time for me to read and understand your posts before the chaos of the day begins. So, a special thanks to those early morning (and late night) contributors.

I have noticed that many of you have established a rhythm for your contributions to class discussions and whether your regular time is late night, early morning, or afternoon, I think that establishing this schedule is a useful way to approach an online course.

I suspect that many of you know that TPACK is a major research interest of mine and thus I am especially enjoying our interactions around this topic this week. I believe that TPACK provides a very useful frame for describing and understanding true technology integration and your examples of TPACK in action are both interesting and useful to me.

And, finally, viewing the digital stories that are now appearing on our Facebook page is a delightful experience. In general, your stories are personal, informative and expertly presented. Congratulations!