They say, "An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.", this also applies to your online learning expectations and goals: make your directions as clear as possible by providing more detail (in a concise way) than you think you may need.

• Protip: An Edpuzzle is a great way to have learners see the directions while also ensuring that they don't skip through.

You don't have to recreate the wheel here! If you are pulling content from a provider such as Khan Academy, use their goals and expectations as a jumping off point while customizing them to your personal style!

Here are a set of strategies through Harvard University's School of Education that they call Project Zero Thinking Routines. These thinking routines are similar in nature to LFSs Activating and Summarizing strategies and can be applied in similar ways.

• Click this link to the Project Zero website you’ll be able to take look at the full list and filter by subject and/or competency type.

• Caitlin Tucker has taken Core Thinking Routines and created free Google Slides templates that you could plug and play into your online modules and B&M learning environments and you’ll be able to make copies of those by clicking the images of the slides all found on this page. Each slide template is accompanied with a link on exactly how and why you would use the template in your learning environment. I thought this was a great resource, so I wanted to pass it along and will be adding it to the PV FAQs site that is linked on the PV Symbaloo page as well for revisiting.

In person you have the ability to accomodate on the fly; online not as much:

• Can learners use text to speech to listen to an article?

• Can learner use Closed Captioning on to read a video if needed?

• Are there a variety of interactions to access the information?

  • This doesn't mean you have to have multiple resources for a single subject but variance in the ways your presenting information; ie not all text, not all video, not all audio, etc.

• Consider including directions for accessibility such as those linked below:

  • Accessibility Mac OS X

  • Accessibility iPad iOS

Feedback in online learning is critical to keep the learning going. Unlike the in-person classroom, your learners don't have peer and facilitator body language and facial expressions to grow (yes you read that right) off of.

• Feedback can be peer driven or facilitator driven.

Each active interaction is an opportunity for feedback, consider peer feedback loops such as discussions in Schoology or FlipGrid for example.