So, here I am, thinking about school and reading the required articles. There's one point in article one that I'm really focusing on as an educator, and also as an Instructional Support Tech at the university. That's the social aspect to online learning. For years I've been watching certain websites i.e. digg.com and reddit.com... These websites allow the "masses" to determine the direction of news on the web. Digg is descibed by Wikipedia as " ...a social news website made for people to discover and share content from anywhere on the Internet...".
In a way, online courses allow the same type of back and forth flow between students (and instructors) in the class. One of the greatest things about the internet is the free flowing exchange of thoughts and ideas. It's really exciting for me to watch our class discussion boards as new thoughts are introduced and discussed. I'm really hoping that the people in the class will be enthusiastic about this exchange of ideas, as it will make the class so much more interesting.
In other new, faithful readers (Luke and Ginny) I got to go to Baldwin county Alabama over the weekend. I highly suggest that you all go and visit there at least once. It is beautiful! I really enjoyed myself as did Will and Sarah. I think they liked playing on the beach more than anything. Of course, there was also a spectacular sunset which I captured on the iphone. :)
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