Effective Online Teaching Podcast

So in a previous post I talked about being intentional.  I have found that just like before this keeps coming to mind.  For example as part of my web class that I am taking this semester I needed to experiment with flickr and the photos I decided to share, which I will embed below are pictures from a previous time in my life when I lived in New Mexico.  It just reminded me to take the time, stop and watch the sunset or rise; just be present in the moment.  I hope you too enjoy these photos, but I want them to remind you to stop take some time to just reflect on what you are doing.  Are you being intentional with your online teaching?  Are you being intentional with taking care of your self so that you can be in the moment with your online students?  I realized today that I am not always in the right mind set and need to make some adjustments.  I hope they do the same for you and remember until next time be effective!  

So I started this blog as part of a class and one of my assignments is to discuss how businesses can use RSS.  Really Simply Syndication or Rich Site Summary is a way to provide a way for people to opt-in and be able to keep track for when a website, podcast, or blog has changed content.  This allows for people to stay up to date with what is going on around a particular topic.  The biggest thing is that it moves away from forcing readers to keep checking to see if new content has changed or "pulling" them to your site a publisher of content is now able to "push" new content to a reader. This functionality can be used by a business internally to provide information around what is going on within the company and employees would always get pushed the new information as soon as it is published.  No more having to send out emails to remind people to view a new policy or procedure is published.  As soon as the policy or procedure is published everyone who has opted-in

This is the first episode of the Effective Online Teaching podcast where I introduce myself and provide a little background. Download the episode