One Good Idea

Ahhh, that pesky aspect of classes, in which we have to do work outside of a course to extend our knowledge, ask questions to clarify ideas, and even check in about being sick. Take a moment and think: how many emails have you written in your life? A quick search on my work Gmail notes that in my "sent" folder, I have 23,383 sent emails. That's just that account, which was at one point new since we switched over from Outlook about 10 years ago. Communication and connection is central to learning and creating community, so it follows that there are a variety of ways to communicate. Today, I'd like to note three ways of communicating digitally (especially necessary for online or hybrid courses) and end with one good idea to have moving forward.  Discussion boards: Asynchronous and (sometimes) Anonymous  Many of us have used some sort of online discussion board at one time or another, and this format is especially helpful for courses that occur fully online or are asynch...