Dear Margaret,

I think that it is a great challenge if you have to teach your class fully online. But I believe you will manage it. I can give you a few advice regarding to interesting techniques. A few years ago I wrote some papers connecting with remote work (some of them you can find in my profile). To sum up you can install user-friendly software on your computer and on your students’ computers and by the Internet you can feel like your students would be with you. You can observe their work, show your clues or do some activity on their displays. It is great.

Of course you can use Skype to communicate with students but good software for remote work has also this function. My favourite is Radmin

https://www.radmin.com/

I recommend it because is easy and rather cheap. You can try it during 30 days without any payment.

Dear Margaret,

i suggest for you to engage students in different online activities and homework that you require for them to submit or create and tell them that those homeworks and assignments will be investigated and marked by you. There are different tools that your students can use such as:

Presentation Tools

             Interactive Slideshows such as (http://Prezi.com)

             Interactive Timelines  such as (http://www.timeglider.com) ,(http://www.dipity.com) ,(http://www.capzles.com/)

             Infographics such as (http://infographics.alltop.com/)

Poster Tools

              Word Clouds  such as (http://www.wordle.net/)

               Interactive Posters such as (http://www.thinglink.com/)

Stories

Story tools & Comics such as (http://www.voki.com),(http://goanimate.com/)

hope that this information was helpful

Kind Regards

Dear Margaret,

i suggest for you to engage students in Second life and co-operating learning