What I am finding useful for teaching online...

What I am finding most useful is knowing the essential skills for an online teacher.  After reading about and taking quizzes on the skills needed to be on online teacher I know which areas I will need to improve in to be a successful online teacher.  Gaining experience using the web 2.0 tools is valuable also.  This is something that I think I could have done on my own but I am sure I learned faster and focused on the most useful tools exploring them in conjunction with this course.  After this course, I will continue to explore them and learn more.

synchronous tools and asynchronous tools

For this blog, I am supposed to write from my experience.  The problem with that is I don't have much experience using them.  The only tool I have used is moodle.  As a synchronous tool, I have taken my classes to the computer lab and had them follow links on moodle to explore a new topic and take quizzes all at the same time, but also all in the same room (not quite the same as an online course).  As an asynchronous tool, I have used moodle to guide students in a review for a test that they could go through at their own pace as little or as much as they wanted.  I think both tools were great and would like incorporate more in the future. The skills required to uses this tool are just planning and knowledge of the tool.