Communicate: The Newsletter Quest

Post date: May 19, 2016 3:28:16 PM

When teaching a course that is entirely online, it is very important that instructors communicate with stakeholders. I plan on using 3 main methods to communicate with people involved in my course (students, parents, and administration mostly):

• 1. Email - this is a quick and easy asynchronous way to communicate with all stakeholders.

• 1. My LMS - another asynchronous method of communication; this is a good way to provide a lot of information to stakeholders at once. They can access the information as they need it. It also allows me to post announcements (see previous post for examples) as needed.

• 1. Screencast/Video/Text chat/help sessions - A screencast is an asynchronous method and video/text chat/help is an asynchronous method for communicating with stakeholders. I've included a YouTube screencast below since I don't have any virtual school students to video/text chat with.

There are other methods for communicating with stakeholders, but I expect these will be the most common methods that I use and the others might be used as the situation warrants.