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[yendi]

Just finished speaking to fifteen faculty and grad students on techniques for online communication Spent over an hour. Did a fucking kick-ass job. I feel drained. I'm getting coffee now.

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[sambear.livejournal.com]

Was this actual substantive stuff, like the difference between voice in person and voice in email? Or was it more a 1-2-3-4 how to thing?

[deza.livejournal.com]

Please tell me y'all aren't stuck with using GSAMS like we are.

[yendi]

A little of both. I was presenting to the group of folks taking the ECOL seminar, which is designed for faculty to put content online, and I was talking about best practices for maintaining an online discussion (especially as a part of a class). In theory, it was platform-independent, but inevitable questions came up, of course. But most of it was the former -- explaining the differences in types of communication, not to mention the added barrier added by age-based perception of those media. The biggest thing to hammer home was the time investment needed, and the need to set expectations up front and overtly.

[yendi]

Nope. Emory doesn't do distance learning -- it's all technology-enhanced learning instead. And we use Blackboard, FirstClass, and (to a much lesser extent) WebCT.