Has anybody tried to do a semester walkthrough using a screencasting tool and a presentation tool of some kind? I think that might be a valuable tool for first year comp students.

Or maybe a short simulation like Clark Aldritch uses:

Here is a place to add more possible guidelines:

1. Provide a scratchpad each week where students can reflect on the week on progress or regress.

2. Get lots of quick feedback from learners with Google Forms.

3.Introduce the idea of feedforward to students and teachers.