Blog Detail
Ruminations of an Online Instructor / MD
http://drdyer.edublogs.org
This Edublog is to share thoughts, observations, reflections and resources about online education, online teaching, distance education, e-learning and web education from the view of a Physician, Professor, Health Educator and Online Student.
Recent Posts
Developing a Commenting Guide for Students on Day 29
The challenge for today was to develop an age-appropriate student commenting guide. Since I deal with college and graduate students, trying to get things down to the level of an elementary school student wouldn’t enter the picture, unless I put...
Blog Comment Strategy for Day 28
In looking at the challenge activity for today, I suddenly realized that I don’t have a particular Blog Commenting Strategy. Prior to the challenge, I would comment under the following situations. I comment when I find something or a post that I am...
Researching Personal Branding on Day 27
I wasn’t exactly sure what constituted a “Personal Brand” so I started today’s activity by trying to figure it out. I found Michele’s Martin’s post on Building Your Online Brand: Start with the Message. She looked ...
Exploring Other Ways to Comment for Day 26
Since the challenge for today was to think about using multimedia and other ways to comment on blogs I decided to review and explore some ways of using multimedia in this blog and for blog commenting. My Voki The first multimedia application that cam...
Day 25 - Gone Hiking….
The task for the day is to Take a Break. I saw this before today and decided to set something up in advance to take the day off (which is nice because it’s in the middle of a three day weekend). This image of sitting on top of a mountain is p...
Commenting in a Foreign Country Day 24
It took me a bit of reflecting to figure out why this challenge–posting a message in a foreign language–was more challenging for me than most and why I ended up modifying the challenge. Many of the people in my family of origin speak Finn...

