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Module 4 Part 2 | Mike's reflection blog on on-line learning within 2.0. - 0 views
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My sophomore organic chemistry was in a 200-people auditorium, yeah, names? what names? :)
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challenged me to consider music and my teaching of it as it related to other disciplines transposed to the on-line learning environment.
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Online Community of Inquiry Review-A Response | Social Studies Another Way - 0 views
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groups do not naturally coalesce and move to integration and resolution phases
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ditto here, you and I talked about this in the discussion. Not the easiest thing to achieve!
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teaching critical thinking online | Learning Online Learning - 2 views
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teaching critical thinking online
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Our last week together | Sue's reflections ETAP687 - 1 views
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It has been a long journey. I have struggled with who I am as a “Teacher”. I am a trainer, spoon feeding information for those to do their jobs. A teacher brings students to the level of thinking for themselves…nurturing critical thinkers. A very big part of me now questions my training.
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I agree. We just need to micro-manage a little less, and give students more space to explore and learn autonomously, which providing sufficient structure. Not too much - just the right amount.
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To look at your own course objectively is difficult
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completely agree with you. the peer reviews were essential to my finishing the course!
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"Who are you?" | Learning Online Learning - 0 views
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This habit of learning may not fare well in the era of information explosion, but that’s who I am as a learner
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Did you see the article "16 mind habits" diigoed by Joy? You have been trained to be a thinker. Being fast and reactionary isn't necessarily a good thing, although that's what most people do when facing a huge volume of information.
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Sue's reflections ETAP687 - 1 views
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Perhaps that is why Professor Pickett mentioned she had a hard time with students that felt they had nothing to learn.
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Nothing to learn??!! I am wondering what on earth those folks were expecting. This says nothing about the teacher. But is says volumes about the students. I think readiness is a key component in learning. When a student is not ready, there is nothing even the best teacher can do about it. There is also an attitudinal component in learning which some students lack.
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“the aim of education must be the facilitation of learning”.
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Though Rogers was referring to these traits in classroom, these same qualities apply to online learning and have been demonstrated by the Professor in the design of this course and in the breeze presentation explaining effective online learning.
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For a while, I never thought I would get here!
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I have those, too! I wish Moodle had a spell-check. I couldn't even catch my own spelling errors when I proofread my own writing.
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the finish line is still there right?
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It keeps moving Sue. Thought I was done as well. So this is the meaning of "iteration". You're never done!
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I have struggled with who I am as a “Teacher”. I am a trainer, spoon feeding information for those to do their jobs. A teacher brings students to the level of thinking for themselves…nurturing critical thinkers. A very big part of me now questions my training.
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Sue, I think we all have to work with this issue. You are certainly not alone...You work with adults, so the role of a trainer is appropriate! :)
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Sue, thank you for being such a great classmate and teacher to me. I've learned from you!
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I feel I am now a teacher
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Mike's reflection blog on on-line learning within 2.0. - 1 views
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I have 222 discussion questions.
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if you do all the work, who does all the learning? 222 question?! now wouldn't it be cool if your students came up with even half of those questions themselves?
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It’s forced me to get out of my comfort area of relating to other music teachers and challenged me to consider music and my teaching of it as it related to other disciplines transposed to the on-line learning environment.
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I’ve included the student need for teaching presence in my discussion rubric but need to further create ways to be part of their learning. This might be just sitting on the sidelines and observing until I feel the need to re-set the climate for learning if it’s off track.
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By doing these activities I have become even more challenged and feel even more uncomfortable. Now I am dipping my other foot in to the online course world. I am inserting my knowledge to this new forum. It’s as if I’m putting my quarter in and watching the wheels turn until they stop on something. What will that something be? I must have felt that I was in some kind of comfort zone. Then I was understanding and proving myself valuable to the other student’s learning.
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I am going to have to think very deeply about. That suggestion is to give more freedom to my students. The students in my course can better express their creativity by having to create their own activities! Wow! This is going to be hard…
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sometimes you can only achieve what you are trying to achieve by letting go... trust yourself and trust your students.
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Creating PDFs takes lot of time
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I have been following your posts, I know you finally got it to work and were able to link pdfs successfully!
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If discussions wane then I can take one of these questions out and use them to stimulate new discussions
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Thanks. They are not going to be introduced all together. That would be too much.
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seeismic did not register me properly
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Being taught what is effective, seeing it being applied to me and then being involved in reflection of its relation to my instruction is the sequence of events that [helped my learning]. This might seem as a surprising statement considering my own blog entry requirements were so open-ended and free-form, a sincere effort to provide scaffolding, that looking back such an attempt could not result in effective metacognitive resolution.
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Therefore I will continue exploring what I have learned in this course and consider the possibility that there may have been things going on in this course that I did not learn because I did not internalize them. (3)
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Kelly's Reflections for ETAP 687 - 1 views
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1. Asking better questions. 2. Reflecting the “real” me in my written materials throughout the course.
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excellent!!! i am glad you shared what you are actively working on. It gives me insight into your thinking and where you are. ps. don't forget to self assess.
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Right now, it is 1 am and I am sitting in my hotel room at the Renaissance Hotel in Washington, DC
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hi kelly - i am also interested to know where you are regarding our course and your course. these were the questions for this reflection period " After conducting your own course review of your own online course, where are you in terms of completion of your online course? How are you doing? What do you need to complete your online course? What have you learned so far about yourself during this process? What has been the most surprising thing you have learned so far? What thoughts do you have about moving from theory (social, cognitive and teaching presence) to practice (building it into your online course)?" Also, you have neglected to self assess based on the rubric.
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Everyone is different so why is being different so different
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deployed to Iraq twice
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I had a gentleman in my class who toured Iraq twice. He walked with a limp and suffered short term memory lapses....I think about the brave men and women who serve our country, what can I do to make a difference in their education?
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lifelong learning... - 1 views
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I feel like every discussion, article and assignment I have done in this course has really made me question why I do things the way I do.
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i am, of course, thrilled with this observation, aubrey. thanks for sharing it. If that was the only thing you got out of this cousre i would be very very happy. thanks for your willingness to consider the possibilities . : ) me
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This was the most challenging course in my Master Degree career at UAlbany. I loved every minute of it. I think that pushing students to perform at higher levels helps them to break the plateu of what they think they are capable of. Usually they are capable of more than you think. It also helped my learning to use diigo and rate my posts. At first I thought it was painstaking and hard, especially when I spent an hour on constructing a post only to recieve a 2, but as I learned that it was more about teaching others, I began to perform better and was more motivated to teach something new and provide a cool resouce in diigo.
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My feelings about this course are great! I would recommend anyone interested in online course development to take the course with Alex. She makes everyone in the course feel welcome and comfortable, which is the key to being successful and having students who are motivated to working with her
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Relationships and feelings are one of the underlying keys to success in a course. If you have a teacher you like, don’t you want to work harder to please them? I know I do…and I know that I don’t really feel like working for someone who berates my feelings and is insensitive.
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Amy's Blog - 0 views
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I never realized that five hours could feel like fifteen minutes once I get engaged in my work.
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eureaka!!! that is exactly what engaged learning is!! Thank you for this observation. I am so glad to hear you had this experience!! Now you know what it feels like and what you are going for with your own students.... this is what I mean when i say "engagement over content." thanks for sharing. : ) me
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My New Adventure in Online Teaching - 1 views
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I also was reminded that in many cases, our students technical skills often far surpass our own and that our course development and approach to online teaching should be informed by that fact.
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how do you come to this conclusion? is it supported in the SLN demographic data? are you sure this it true? do you buy into the digital native vs. immigrant assertion?
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I already recognize that this will require me to sacrifice spontaneity and creativity at times but I think on balance it is the right way to go.
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online teaching requires me to do something I hate - completely rethink my approach.
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theory is easy and practical application is a lot of blood, sweat, and tears.
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I’ve constantly considered and reconsidered the importance of my role as the teacher as I’ve laid out Module after Module.
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I am still not entirely sold on the need to have the entire course completed ahead of time – though who am I to argue with the experts?
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hey bill. our research findings support this assertion and i want you to know that there is a positive and significant correlation between the percentage of course completed prior to the first day of the course and student (and faculty) satisfation and reported learning. Seems like building the airplane whilst in flight is not a good idea - the faculty experience is negatively impacted and the students also notice...
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In other words, modifications can be done in a controlled setting.
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My emotions ran the spectrum from a little bit of anger at being asked to complete a task that I didn’t entirely think was realistic, to disappointment in myself that, even though I thought I had caught up, I obviously was still just treading water. I’ve settled somewhere in the middle but regardless I decided to just put and shut up and make my way through the remainder of the course development process.
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what I will take away from it is so much more than any all-nighter I might have put in. I now feel confident to teach my own online courses and hope to begin implementing a hybrid online program in the 2010-2011 school year. This class has given me that kind of confidence and I’m all the better for it.
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Thoughts About Teaching Spanish Online - 0 views
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In an online environment it is fundamental. Discussions generate questions, and questions promote critical thinking. I now firmly believe, and understand, that in order to promote a higher level of language usage, I need to help my students learn how to think critically through questioning. This is best accomplished through a dialogue format, where all students are expected to contribute in a relaxed and supportive learning environment.
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I am wondering if there is a way to copy a module set-up, and then simply customize the web pages within each module.
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i wish there were in moodle but to my knowlege there is not. Believe me, i understand.
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Suddenly, the student is propelled to think clearly and critically, as now their core ideas have the potential to be shared with anyone, anywhere.
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t occurred to me that real learning requires the removal of classroom walls in the sense that students need to be made to feel empowered in their ability to learn independently, as well as in the amount of information they learn.
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Personal stories give life to a faceless person, just as they do in literature. We come to know, like, love, despise, and sympathize with characters the more we know about them. Online it is very different in the sense that we are communicating interactively, but unless we become ‘real’ to our students, there will be a disconnect between instructor-student that must ultimately interfere with knowledge acquisition, particularly since effective teaching presence has been shown to directly affect the quality of education in online environments based on interactions between students and instructors (Alex – Breeze presentation module 5).
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Specifically, I need to ask myself: Do these questions simply ask student to use their foundational knowledge, and book resources, in order to answer the questions? Or do they need to think, analyze, research and push themselves cognitively in order to understand, and answer, the posted questions?
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Online learning requires a different framework of thinking and behaving. It requires a sense of self-reliance, responsibility and an openness to collaboration and reflection.
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Many of our high school students are not equipped with these survival skills.
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barbara: it is my experience that students rise to your expectations. I have seen remarkable work by k12 students and lower level college students. And even if it is true that they are not well equipped, they will have a fantastic teacher in you to get them there : ) me
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online learning not only allows students to learn according to their favored multiple intelligences (visual, auditory, tactile, etc.), it also allows students to learn according to their own rate of information reception. While the classroom forces us all to be quick thinkers, and immediate responders, many of us are not. We need time to formulate ideas, responses and concepts. Students who cannot respond immediately are left out of the learning environment and many may eventually ‘check-out’.
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Seeing others accomplish things that I had either not thought of, or was too intimidated to attempt, made me take chances.
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This is what learning is all about – moving out of our comfort zone and pushing our possibilities.
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Learning... - 0 views
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. I have to get away from thinking that LIB 105 is “just a one credit requirement that no one wants to take.” Instead, as Alex suggested some time ago, I need to make it alive and engaging and what I really want it to be.
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Bravo Anne!! share your passion! think about stuff from their perspective and what would make your content relevant, applicable to their real lives. how will you know if you are doing it right? will they tell their friends about it? will they continue to do it/use it after the course? would they spend their own money to do it/use it?
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to answer the question of who I am as an educator and a learner, I am both simultaneously
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I think what I learned in this module is that my class will only be as engaging as I make i
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As interesting as this article was, I would have like to have read it prior to reading the Shea, et al. article which used Garrison’s material. I think that it would have been more relavent then.
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The cool thing is that they seemed like second nature after reading the manual, listening to the model course instructors and most importantly paying close attention to how Alex has constucted, guided and facilitated our course. I learn best by example and this has been an extraordinary model for me to follow.
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Kristina Lattanzio's Blog.... - 0 views
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Teacher presence, which is how you speak and relate to your students, must not be confused with teaching presence, which is the way a course is structured, activities are designed and feedback is given.
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kristina: are you missing the even bigger point here that "teaching presence" is not the exclusive domain of the one in the "role" of "teacher?" Than "teaching presence" in an effectively designed online learning environment is equally expressed, cultivated and facilitated from those in the "role" of "student." can you demonstrate to me that you understand this key concept?
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One of the resources I came across identified audio feedback to be associated retention of content and students associate it with the perception that the instructor cared more about them.
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do you have a citation for this? would love to see and hear more about this from you or anyone else in the class.
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Reflections on Online-Teaching and Learning - 0 views
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teaching online can make you a better f2f teacher
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you might be interested in this: online teaching as a catalyst for classroom based transformation https://urresearch.rochester.edu/retrieve/6493/Catalyst+for+Classroom+Transformation.pdf : }
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By pushing myself to interact better I can learn to teach interaction to my students.
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I have learned that interaction is essential to teaching and learnng. Learning is a social activity. I feel I have been brave enough to include a discussion forum in each module of my course. It was easy really to do. the questions I have posed are big questions-they are not lower level thinking questions. in order to elicit the rich content from my students in the discussion i need better instructions and to create that rubric-i will do.
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can’t believe how far I’ve come. So, I guess that’s the most suprising thing that i have learned. I can do this tech. stuff. well, another thing that strikes me as suprising is that this course has helped me to become a better f2f teacher. i can no longer hide behind my fear for interaction in the f2f class.
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Have you seen this article? ONLINE TEACHING AS A CATALYST FOR CLASSROOM-BASED TRANSFORMATION http://www.google.com/search?q=a+catalyst+for+classroom-based+transformation&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a
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i suppose i can.
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I am proud of myself and patient with myself.
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As I grow as a teacher, there is no doubt, that I will be rocky road.
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I know that I have learned, for god’s sake I created an online course!
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change the world!
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I felt scared and now I feel empowered.
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Jim's viewable streams of thought - 2 views
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What I’m really coming to grips with is how much the students might not be actually understanding when I communicate orally. How much of this information is not remembered?
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It’s not about being the “sage” but about being in a room full of people and interacting on issues I love.
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I LOVE how you put this Jim!! For me my room is here with you and the others in our class, and i feel the exact same way. My fondest wish for all of you is that you get to experience your love of teaching- - that same feeling of love and satisfaction you get f2f -- in an online teaching and learning environment too.
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jim: breathe.... i am so sorry. i know how very frustrating this can be.... just a week ago i lost one of my blog posts ... i was crushed and frantic after spending a whole day writing the post... if you follow me on twitter you may have seen my frantic panic expressed in my appeals for help to the the twitterverse for assistance/suggestions on how to recover the post ... i just spent so much time on it....and i have no idea how i deleted it. I am not sure if this will help, but unbelievable after doing all kinds of things to try to recover my post, i actually found it by hitting the back button on my browser. I am on a mac and using firefox, so i don't know if it would work in other browsers or on a PC. there may also be other factors. I never shut down my computer and i use millions of tabs. I think my copy was still in the cache of the computer on the tab that i had used to create the post... anyway. i hope you are ok now. and i look forward to this post. me
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How do I prove this? Just take a look at the course I’ve built and there is evidence of learning.