Hello All
I know that this blog is quite late. One thing that I realize about a virtual class is that you really have to be on top of your game. There are no weekly meetings to remind you of where you should be and it is easy to lose much time struggling to navigate your way through something that would probably be so much easier if you had a real live person to kind of guide you through it. That being said, I think our Professor is great. I just wish that we could have her in person a least a few times throughout the semester. I'm still one of those people that will stay on hold for a very long time waiting to talk to a human being on the telephone before I'll try to solve my problem at somebody's website. There is something about that human contact that gives me a little more security that I am interpreting something correctly or that I am moving in the right direction instead of spending hours working on something only to find that it's all wrong...ugh. Do I sound jaded? I'm not. I'm just being humbly honest about my experience. I have enjoyed learning about the wide wide world of the world wide web. The possibilities are endless and I'm excited to be learning about them and to keep learning about them. I am fully aware that it is impossible to teach students in this day and age without constantly growing in my knowledge of and ability to navigate my way through "the web". It would be like teaching a room full of students who didn't speak the language that you're teaching in....actually I think I have done that.... :) Anyway, it has been a learning experience and I look forward to the opportunity to apply all that I've learned in my own navigation and trial and error and all that I have learned from all of you in your very generous sharing and comments. So thank you.
Shari
Amen!! I still need both! My profession has changed so very dramatically. Trading used to be so much more a people business. Now it is machines. Not as fun but much more efficient.
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Thanks for your honest comments, Shari. I understand your feeling. Sometimes thngs from my end take three times longer because I can't demonstrate it instead of having to rely on an explanation and I just know there is some miscommunication in the online format. But it has its plusses as well and its most definitely not everyone's cup of tea!
ReplyDeleteI agree with you, I still need that one figure in front of a classroom. But I think it has a lot more to do with the way in which we have always learned. If we really think about it, communication is possible. It is just not the way in which we are accostume to.
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