See my Summary of Learning here.

My course feels done, or at least for our class purposes, it feels done.   The link for Wellness 10 ECI 834 can be found here. My main page starts with essentially a syllabus and breakdown of the goals/topics covered in the Wellness 10 course.
The next tab on the course is learning outcomes, which are directly from the Saskatchewan curriculum. This section also gives students a tangible look at the grade breakdown for these areas which are directly correlated with the amount of time we spend in each area.
Next on the dashboard, is the modules section. First is our 30 Day challenge, which I think is one of the most important areas in Wellness 10. The students are able to identify some opportunities where they can improve their lifestyle, eating habits, sleeping schedules, environmental awareness, etc. They are then able to formulate a plan here to make this life change for 30 days. I have uploaded a PDF in this section to aid them in working through this module.
The second module is our fitness testing area which is easily done without the aid of much equipment, should someone be doing this course fully remotely.  I have uploaded PDFs of a) recording sheet b) girls aged 14-18 results matrix c) boys aged 14-18 results matrix d) goal setting and reflections as well as recorded my own exercise demonstration videos and uploaded them to YouTube with links to each. Originally, I had uploaded these videos directly onto the site, but after having about half of them, I was running out of storage space. Alec was in the breakout room as I was pondering this problem and figured out the solution to host them on YouTube instead of the Canvas site.
Next is Assignments, which mirrors a lot of the information in the modules section, but give grade values to the assignments, but also has a section with a link to FlipGrid for introductions. The students are invited to use this link to introduce themselves, speak briefly on past (positive or negative) , and what they hope to get out of the course.
The next section is Files, where students are able to access the documents for both modules, as well as shortcuts to videos. As I write this, I see that I've only used 12% of the storage for the site, which is about 70% lower than when I had 6 videos hosted directly on the site.
In my Discussion section, I decided to limit the topics available, mostly to streamline the locations and make things easier to find in there. I have a General area, a space for Wellness resources, and each module has their own discussion section.
The Rubric area houses evaluation criteria for the 30 Day challenge only since the Fitness Testing rubric is basically integrated into that assignment.
Finally, I opened up the Chat option so that students are able to ask questions in real time to me, or have others in the class respond if they are online and working through similar difficulties.

As far as getting feedback / feedforward, I've done a few things in the past in order to improve my courses going forward. I would typically throw together a survey on surveymonkey.  They would typically get 5-8 questions, most with a 1-5 star rating and it made it painless and easy to follow. The final question on the survey would be open ended for any thoughts, comments or suggestions and I'd find that most students would skip this section, or put in some generic comment. I do these things so that I can make adjustments for the course going forward, but it rarely benefits those students who had just given me the feedback since the survey is done at the end of the course. Going forward, I think that doing one of these (anonymous) surveys part way through the class would allow me to get a better feel for the class' feeling and make changes that are meaningful for the current group.
For my current ECI blended class, I think I will use forums with specific headings for topics that I think need to be there. I like the idea of having a general / misc area where students can post about a variety of things and not feel handcuffed that they need to always be posting about one certain topic or whatever. Of course, I 'd offer some areas for resources and topic specific questions as well. I would limit the number of areas so that students don't find confusion in where a certain post would fit or where they could find information on certain topics. Too many choices will create confusion and too few will limit student's ability to post.  Gotta find the happy medium with maybe 3-5 topic areas to ensure they are being used and not overwhelming.

I decided to do this week's blog entry on fonts.  I haven't ever really given it much thought and I always went with Times New Roman or, if I'm feeling adventurous, Arial.  Sometimes bold, sometimes underline no real use for italics unless it's for citations- but that's it.  I don't typically stray from these staples since I feel like they are professional looking and I haven't had a need to try something else.  Maybe I'm lacking creativity.  Last week - and in previous weeks - during class, people seemed to swooooooooon over some of the fonts used and I figured this week's entry would be a good opportunity to look over this stuff and see what all the fuss is about. After doing some reading, authors have written about how fonts can attract readers, how they can inspire creativity and how emotions can be delivered through various forms of typeface.  The tone is important and I feel like the reader will be drawn to information that's bolded or indented. I always thought that less is more and that some pictures, centred headings and clear spacing would be most attractive to the reader. Depending on who your audience is will dictate what your end product should look like. If you think about different fonts that you see on a daily basis, you'll know and recognize them and associate them with a certain product or company much the same as you recognize a team's logo.  You know what the Rider logo is, but you'll also associate their font with the team when you see it..Sometimes bubbly, or jagged fonts will appeal to younger, energetic group and script will garner the attention of sophisticates.  I think I'm happy with my blase fonts but can appreciate when people use a variety to mix it up.  Maybe I'll try it sometime, but I don't think I'd use this script at the risk of offending my aunt.....