"Statistics are faceless, what happens to you is personal..." Mr. Shelton's voice was tense but hopeful. Stepping back away from the board, he leaned down over the front table looking at each of us. He continued to explain that we as Juniors had to decide whether we were going to be a statistic, and like most students at Coronado High School forgo college-or-were we going to do something different.

Mr. Shelton seemed to have a way of connecting high school Physics to life lessons in a very…

The discussion forum is the heart of the online classroom.  It is where the students spend most of their time and where the majority of teaching takes place.  An argument can be made that as goes the discussion forum so goes the course.  So how can we, as instructors, help create an active, vibrant, interactive discussion forum where students are actually discussing the course material rather than just answering the discussion questions?  Below are five tips I have learned over the course of my…