I love this course! I teach it once a year and every year it's almost brand new. "Internet Tools and Practices" what a large, open canvas upon which to dab and dribble bits of color to enliven teaching and learning. As I hope you will come to appreciate, I find teaching one of the most creative of human endeavors. I enjoy the freedom and challenge of meeting individual needs, of using found objects to make new tools, of feeling the flash of intuition for myself and of seeing it in the eyes of others. I see teaching as a journey, one that began for me more than 40 years ago and one which I still find challenging especially in this, newish to me, medium of the internet. Teaching across time and distance deprives us of that instant feedback that in the classroom is comprised of body language, facial expression, voice inflection, and the inexpressible sense of being together in one place at the same time. But, the internet opens so many new doors for us as teachers it makes up for some of the lack of the "personal touch".
I love "new" and "change" and I find the possibilities of a "blended" course the best of two worlds: 1) access to the infinite set of tools and resources found online and 2) the brief but informative face-to-face meetings we have scheduled.
When you respond to this post say a few words about how you, at this moment in time, feel about online/blended teaching and learning. We'll look back near the end of the course and see if attitudes have shifted.
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