Try varying your own practice along one of the dimensions. If you generally use lots of energy, try quieting down and see what happens. If your students have a hard time knowing how to begin and what to say, try establishing a set of rules for them. If you have tried using modeling and it hasn't seemed to work, try letting your students guide themselves. If you have used groups only occasionally, and you've found them to be a distraction, try experimenting with making them a regular and central feature of your teaching.
Group work is one way to work toward such a goal.
If you're going to require online discussion or exchange of drafts on email, try to schedule your class in one of the wired rooms a few times early in the course. Give several dates at the time the course meets so that your class can be accommodated. When you set up a course Web page on CourseTools all the students enrolled in the class have access to the site as soon as you have published it, usually within a day. The COW can be open or closed. Setting up a class email list The two technology basics of online collaboration are setting up a class email list and making sure students know how to copy and paste a response or draft from their word processing program to the list and thus to everyone in the class.