If you’ve found your way to the blog, then the Summer Workshop is almost over. Yet the challenges of technology grow rather than diminish now that you’ve got your feet wet. Consider checking back here to share your ideas, experiences, etc. as you use the various applications to set up your course. We’ll be checking back, too. Technology can extend boundries and I hope it extends the life of this workshop.
Hopes for the Future–after the workshop
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Yes, definitely I will check back this source. Thank you!
Soledad
What an eloquent statement, Courtney. Well said!
And ditto!
I am looking forward to using what I have learned. Thanks!!
Hi, all. Well, it turns out the material you have covered in this workshop may be even more important to me that I thought. I just got an email from a student who wants to take my fall U-college class from a distance — she will be in Germany. I’m going to let her do it, but since my instructional approach centers on in-class group collaborative activities, it’s going to be quite a challenge to see how I can create an experience for her that will be equivalent to what those who are physically present get. I’ll be looking for ways to deal with collaboration across a distance, and I’ll welcome the thoughts and insights of others!
Definitely, I will check back this source, thanks!
Soledad
Wow! Teaching one student in another country and the rest in a classroom seems like quite a challenge. Technology like Telesis (with assignments and discussion) seems a way to keep her on track. Online collaboration might be a way to help her interact with the other students and participate even from afar. Yet if you want to include online collaboration, it seems best to want to have that as a goal for your entire class, rather than as a goal for keeping one student up-to-date. Perhaps consider first how you want everyone to interact, then how technology might help, and then how to use it in her particular case.
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Ryan, I want to send you emails but can not find your email address.Would you mind sending me an email first? Thanks a lot. By the way I tried to start a new post and it didn’t work. Maybe you can figure it out. Thanks.
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Yu
In these comments, you may see names that you don’t recognize from your Workshop session. The telesis site, blog, and wiki are populated with participants from both sessions. If you find that you’re starting a real tech dialog with someone you haven’t met, you might want to introduce yourself.
Wow, having a student from another country would be incredibly challenging, but also really exciting. Do you think you’ll have your class participate in some form of online discussions more than you might otherwise??
I do, however, think that you need to be sure that you don’t let the whole course be shaped by only one student. The students who actually attend the course might resent this, especially if they have to do online chats primarily for the benefit of one person who they don’t even know.