Book : 147 Practical Tips for Teaching Online Groups : Essentials of Web-Based Education


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Average Rating: Rating: - A Great Disappointment This is a book with a promising title and little else. The opening chapter suggests that the book is intended for experienced teachers who are new to the online environment. Consequently, readers are led to expect useful tips that will help them translate their classroom experience to the Web. But instead readers will find revelations such as these: "You can create quiz questions that are true-false, matching, multiple choice, completion and short answer, and essay." (page 40) Really? What news! "Evaluate Your Learners" (Tip 82, page 38) Indeed! What a concept! Actually find out what your students know! As Fred Gailey, the attorney defending Kris Kringle in "Miracle on 34th Street" told the judge when he offered some letters in evidence of Santa's identity, "I have further exhibits, but I hesitate to produce them." A teacher with the most modest experience can open this book at random and find such insulting drivel on any page. I hope that these comments help someone else avoid wasting (your money) plus shipping and handling. Rating: - Extremely Superficial This book provides only a superficial look at the complexity of teaching online groups. The 147 tips are not organized in any fashion, and most of them are just plain old common sense. Rating: - Each technique is succinctly presented In 147 Practical Tips For Teaching Online Groups: Essentials of Web-Based Education, Donald E. Hanna, Michelle Glowacki-Dudka, and Simone Conceicao-Runlee effectively collaborate to create a practical and succinct compendium of "tips, tricks and techniques" for successfully conducting a workshop, seminar or classroom symposium over the Internet. Each technique is succinctly presented and will increase effectiveness for both the teacher and the group discussion participants. 147 Practical Tips For Teaching Online Groups is essential and invaluable reading for anyone charged with the responsibility for using the Internet as a means of instructional contact whether in academia, a corporate in-service, non-profit organizational seminar, or educating an Internet newsgroup or listserv in some particular subject, issue or topic.

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