Today marks the fourth full day of the course. I am really enjoying this! Unfortunately, I have not followed my observation from yesterday that I need to limit the amount of times I visit the course. I think I am anxious to make sure that everyone is on track with the discussions and assignments.

Knowledge
Experience is certainly a great teacher. As I review the first assignment and the discussions in the Courseroom, I am very interested in knowing more about what kind of prompts are best for stimulating discussion. I have a lot to learn here. The extent to which students are responding to prompts varies greatly, just as it does with students in public schools.

Skills

Affect
I had to be firm with a couple of students today who are not keeping up with the class. In one case, the student indicated that access to the course over the weekend would not be possible. This would not be so bad, but this student has yet to begin the course, emailing today to indicate