And so it begins...
Today is the day. I have been thinking about this for many months. This has been an idea I have been toying with for awhile and it is finally coming to fruition. I have been in the online learning field for a long time; pretty much since 1999. I was only a work study at that time, but I got my start supporting the learning academy that San Juan College was running that summer. We had a set of faculty who were learning about what it was going to mean to teach online for the first time. I think at that time a lot of us were kinda running by the seat of our pants and since that time I have learned quite a bit about what it means to teach online. Fast forward several years to 2006 - that was the first year that I taught my first fully online class. It was an introduction to biology course and it included the lab component online as well. During those first semesters I spent time "defending" the techniques, the learning the students were doing, and so on. It has now been