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Hi I’m Ailene Crakes, I’m a counseling faculty member at Mesa College and I teach
both Personal Growth 120 which is a College Success Skills course and Personal Growth
130 which is a Career and Life Planning course. I’m just really excited to be able to take
advantage of the resources available through SDCCD Online, most especially the 3Ideas.
What I really liked about it was it forced me to really have somebody take a look at
my class and take an objective look at the course. Often times when we have been teaching
our class for awhile we kinda get in a rut and we get so comfortable with what we are
doing. I decided to go for it and had Katie check out my class and I was really pleased
with the 3 ideas that I received from her. She has worked with me for awhile now and
one of my biggest hesitation was always to show students a picture of myself and this
really encouraged me to do something about having some form of introduction so that students
can get to know me better and so I decided to do that and I am very pleased with the
outcome. Thanks to Katie’s help for that. The second suggestion that she had for me
was to have some form of orientation to online learning some form of link that’s available
to my students. And it was really interesting because I didn’t realize that I had a link
that was not working. The third suggestion was to refrain from using
red fonts and instead if I want to put some emphasis in some information that I have in
my course is to bold them instead. So, I’m really pleased with the outcome and I am glad
that I was able to take advantage of this resource. It’s a wonderful program that
they have for faculty members and I definitely highly recommend it.