Blog update

I've been putting in extra hours at work this past week, but it actually relates to this course and the OTL program. Stanford University offered us a chance to pilot a group of online courses that are actually intended for independent use by K-12 GATE students, but wants to see if they could be used by general ed students as well in a guided, computer lab setting. It's good material, and I'm cautiously optimistic (always good to have high expectations!) that I can pull it off. It has been a lot of work to set it up, though, and to plan out a computer lab period for each class that combines the OTL course with a fun reward activity at the end (the old carrot-and-stick approach) for staying on task and putting in reasonable effort. The online course itself is an individualized course with no group or social component, but I have some ideas on how I might be able to work that into the mix.