Wednesday, April 7, 2010
Communication
We have a real teacher. Meeting with Becca last week was extremely helpful. I know I was personally have a hard time understanding all the aspects of the formal proposal. One of the main reasons is that there seems to be so many documents describing the same thing. While they were explicit I was not sure which one to work form. One of the topics that came up during my group meeting was some of the difficulties of taking a class online. Becca mentioned that the University was trying to more towards online class in the future. I think that this will be difficult for many students. In another class I have been learning about communication. One of the things that has been repeated several times is that communication is 90% non-verbal. I think online classes create a deficit in communication that can be a challenge for many students. I think it is safe to say that most of us have experienced it in this class.
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Agreed. Any ideas how we go about fixing this deficit? The University would like to use blogs, Elluminate, and other Web 2.0 applications to fill the communication deficit. I don't know about you, but I begin to feel over-whelmed and bleary eyed from all the time spent in front of my computer.
ReplyDeleteIt was great to meet you, too! It's nice to know that I have real students.