This isn’t my first online English class, yet it is the first one that has changed my perspective on how I feel about it. Online learning is different of course. In this class it has its parts where it is like an in class, class. So in person learning it is typical interaction face-to-face, tangible and possibly easier to stay focused. Online you have no interaction and nothing is in person. This semester we were able to do videos and got to know our classmates more than a regular online class. The challenges to taking an online class are the distractions, facebook (for the random every 5 minutes procrastination), television, friends, bed (because anything involving school makes you sleepy) and no instructor to keep you focused when you start to doze off. The benefits of taking an online class are being able to get ahead more than a regular class. Also, other benefits are being able to do your work whenever you can, no tardy, no absent marks and you can be sick and still “go to class”. It isn’t that bad at all when you think about it. One of the technologies we used this semester was blogger.com it really opened my eyes and helped me with my essays with the comments I received. Blogger also benefits with the interaction with classmates, how everyone decorated their blogs you got a slight idea of how they are as well as their writing styles. I found it very beneficial, I hope that more instructors choose this way of interaction. image source here.
How true! It is so easy to get sidetracked with an on-line class. I always say that I am a procrastinator by nature, and this course was no exception to that. I found myself awake at all hours of the night on several occasions. It was also so easy to get distracted playing with my children and spending time with my husband. I am glad that so many students seem to have enjoyed the structure our instructed created in this course. I thought it was an awesome way way to take an on-line course! Good luck to you!
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Rebekah
I have had an English online class and many others before too. I agree with you about us being able to get to know our classmates better during this course than most. When I first found out we had to create a blog I was a little skeptical. I never thought I would be someone to put my work on the internet for everyone to see, but it's nice that we all got to design our own site to share with our classmates. I've never experience something like this in an online class and I actually think it's a really good idea.
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