For each of our units, we have overview documents that explain what our activities, goals, and expectations are for that unit of work. We already have most of the content organized and shared, but there are many of these overview documents left to create.
These are interesting yet difficult to write up. There's a lot of information we need to convey to students, and how to do that in a purely textual environment is a completely different experience for me. I found myself constantly deciding what would be important for students to know, and what we could expect them to learn/figure out for themselves. It's fun to keep my pedagogy hat on, but it also takes time because there's so much to think about.
Luckily these aren't long, and I got through about 5 overview statements in the 60 minute BDS I did tonight.
I think the fact that I have a meeting tomorrow (albeit with my friend) has contributed a little bit of stress to the process. We have very different methods for getting things done, as well as a very different methods for interpersonal communication. I'm sure it will be fine, but when my mind trailed off of the task, it was usually because I was thinking about the meeting.
I also have the MN Twins game playing on the radio in my ear buds. There's probably something there as to why I'm distracted, but oh well. There're some sacrifices I'm not willing to make (even though they're bums).
A few people in class over the past two days have talked a little bit about their online class experience. I'd love to hear more about that, as this type of project is new to me.
ReplyDeleteI'm sure I'll be blogging about it in the future, but what do you think makes for a good online class?
Ooh, I'd love to hear about this too! I suppose this could be a way of "entering the conversation" of online education, by hearing from people who have taken online classes :)
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