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Personalization Tips

Many students and instructors complain that the distance education environment is not very personal.  However, you can personalize it with just a few easy steps.
  • Require a biography for the first assignment during the first week and include your own biography.  This assignment, when utilized early in the class, can do two things.  Firstly, it can help students become familiar with the discussion area and Blackboard.  Secondly, it will help you and your students become familiar with each other.  
     
  • Encourage students to create a homepage and incorporate some part of that in their grade.  Perhaps consider just giving bonus points for homepages.  Technical Writing and business can use the homepage as and actual assignment.  History classes can require that students provide links to favorite or project webs on the internet.
     
  • Change the colors on Blackboard or your webpage.
     

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