We begin BOLT. Online teaching training.
So far, I've seen much from a student's perspective. Without showing up to a room filled with people, which confirms that you are in fact in the right place, the first days of BOLT online seemed disorienting. Just me and my computer. What am I supposed to be doing? Where am I supposed to go?
At this point, my suspicions about the profile of a good online-learner are somewhat confirmed. That person has to be self-motivated, self-organized, and absent anxiety about what to do and when. You have to be used to poking around the Internet, figuring things out for yourself.
This blog is a curious project. My wife tells me that, in her world, blogging is out and Instagram is in. Fewer words, more pictures. This brings to mind my second concern about online teaching: how does one even read the Internet? Already, I feel the length of my paragraphs here are too long.
They should be...
shorter.
I see that I have to change my writing style for the web. Hello, sentence fragments and one-sentence paragraphs!
Josh
ReplyDeleteI find myself typing in internet fragments as well! Is this normal? I never thought having poor English skills would ever come in handy for me- but maybe now my lack of sentence structure can work to my advantage. I keep writing how a speak, which is short and to the point. You are making me think about how a student would read something like this. -- I just looked over what I wrote and I am lost :)
Do we even use sentences anymore? Or are we drifting to a language that is partially driven by pictograms :) ;)
ReplyDeleteI think we've seen a lot of anxiety about what modern technology might do to our language, but it's kind of difficult to see effects when you're in the middle of the process. On one hand, we can see similar kinds of worries taking place throughout history with books, the telegraph, trains, the telephone, etc., all to little noticeable effect. On the other hand, this newer technology does seem to have made more fundamental changes to how the whole culture thinks and speaks.
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