It's what I just spent a few minutes struggling with. Something about slipping because a nasty slip and some cable internet downtime just cost me a week of work. Nothing more fun than not being able to leave a house with no access to research materials because you've destroyed your back getting into a truck. Especially after deleting everything in a frustrated attempt to jump start the idea machine.
My seminar paper is going to focus on steps to prepare yourself to move from traditional to online teaching, which I think I stated before. I'm in the process of reviewing the literature and narrowing down the question still, but it seems a major focus is going to be on preparing for the change in communication style between teachers and students. The readings have talked about this a bit, more by discussing the results of not preparing it seems. The digital immigrants vs. digital natives angle is playing in, but I'm starting to see evidence the divide isn't as big as it's been made out to be.
Unfortunately, I'm already up against the same issue I ran into earlier, where the thing keeps wanting to branch out in different directions. I actually have a handwritten list of things (such as CMS, forum etiquette, e-mail etiquette, etc.) that I'm not allowed to spend more than a paragraph on in my paper. I just have to keep hacking off heads and torching the stumps here.
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I see the divide between teaching online and traditional teaching to be huge. Certainly the pedagogical strategies are still in place but in a very different way. Much of the literature I have read deals with the subject of just how under-prepared teachers are when they start teaching online and how they have to sort of learn how to teach all over again in order to make the online experience a successful one for students.
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