Effective Online Teaching Podcast

Something that has been surfacing a lot lately in what I have been reading, listening too, and just in general and that is the idea of being intentional.  Being intentional with your finances, your health, your job, and your faith.  This ideal impacts every aspect of your life and impacts the way you teach, especially, online. Over the last decade of teaching online I have learned that I have to be intentional if I am going to impact my students success. There are two areas where intention is a big deal.  The first is in how you facilitate the online class.  I will admit that hasn't been the case in every semester I have taught.  I have got behind in grading, following up with students, and just keeping up with the class.  The best semesters have been those where I have logged in everyday, spent 30+ minutes grading, responding to messages, and looking through interaction logs for my students.  Those intentional moments have gone a long way to helping...

Like I said in my initial post I have been thinking about this blog/podcast for quite awhile and want to provide value to those who follow it.  So many of my initial posts on this blog will be my thoughts as I develop the first episode of my blog.  Any feedback would be appreciated. So for the first podcast episode I want to cover several things; the first of which is to introduce myself, not only who I am, why I feel "qualified" to do the podcast, but also to just explain where I come from.  I think my first blog post provides some of that information, but will want to enhance it so that it flows better - more presentation like. My intent is for each episode to be about 30 minutes long; long enough to provide value, but not so long that people don't want to finish.  The intro probably will only take 5 or so minutes so I will also cover a topic that I have shared with lots of faculty over the years... and would be my first Sam's Soapbox segment. Cue some s...