Comments on: Post #2- C&I 438 http://jmraede.wordpress.com/2007/06/10/6/ Just another WordPress.com weblog Tue, 26 Jun 2007 02:50:04 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: kabaja http://jmraede.wordpress.com/2007/06/10/6/#comment-6 kabaja Mon, 11 Jun 2007 05:56:46 +0000 http://jmraede.wordpress.com/2007/06/10/6/#comment-6 This week HAS been a test of patience with technology. How interesting to wrestle with these problems as a cohort. This situation calls into question the use of open source and free technologies. You cannot simply call the "tech specialist" in the building, as we can with Blackboard or IVHS problems. There is more punting (Powderpuff style) in store with beta phase products. Were you using IVC for your course development? This whole public dimension of the course is fascinating. I see you got a Troy Hicks response to your post. Score! What do you think about the anonymous posting question? As for the new tool scramble, I had just signed up for my first NING last week, and now we are using one in our class. (Love your NING photo, by the way. What exactly were you doing? It looks exhillarating and dangerous.) This week HAS been a test of patience with technology. How interesting to wrestle with these problems as a cohort. This situation calls into question the use of open source and free technologies. You cannot simply call the “tech specialist” in the building, as we can with Blackboard or IVHS problems. There is more punting (Powderpuff style) in store with beta phase products. Were you using IVC for your course development?
This whole public dimension of the course is fascinating. I see you got a Troy Hicks response to your post. Score! What do you think about the anonymous posting question?
As for the new tool scramble, I had just signed up for my first NING last week, and now we are using one in our class. (Love your NING photo, by the way. What exactly were you doing? It looks exhillarating and dangerous.)

]]> By: deborahwrites http://jmraede.wordpress.com/2007/06/10/6/#comment-5 deborahwrites Sun, 10 Jun 2007 23:28:26 +0000 http://jmraede.wordpress.com/2007/06/10/6/#comment-5 I have been on-line since 1993 and never thought about it before taking this class, but I have been using the Internet primarily for education in that time. This may not come as a surprise to those who only surf through educational sites, but much of my on-line experience has been on social sites, such as Prodigy Forums (back in the early 90s) and the Yahoo groups today. I've learned about raising farm animals, gardening, soapmaking, cheesemaking, and many other things from people who have been doing those things for varying amounts of time, and I met all of them and was able to pick their brains through the social sites. Deborah Niemann-Boehle I have been on-line since 1993 and never thought about it before taking this class, but I have been using the Internet primarily for education in that time. This may not come as a surprise to those who only surf through educational sites, but much of my on-line experience has been on social sites, such as Prodigy Forums (back in the early 90s) and the Yahoo groups today. I’ve learned about raising farm animals, gardening, soapmaking, cheesemaking, and many other things from people who have been doing those things for varying amounts of time, and I met all of them and was able to pick their brains through the social sites.
Deborah Niemann-Boehle

]]> By: Troy Hicks http://jmraede.wordpress.com/2007/06/10/6/#comment-4 Troy Hicks Sun, 10 Jun 2007 03:47:14 +0000 http://jmraede.wordpress.com/2007/06/10/6/#comment-4 Hi Julie, Congrats on overcoming your technical difficulties and continuing with your first online teaching experience! I think that you make an important point when you suggest that "As I am even blogging about how my own class that I am teaching online is going, I have to think about who the audience is." Of the many teachers with whom I have worked over the past five years, this continues to be a dominant theme in all online spaces such as digital portfolios, and especially now with blogging. So, here is a question... what do you think of teachers blogging anonymously? If the point of the blog is to critically reflect on one's practice and not just gripe -- with only minimal expectation that there will be a response -- then is it OK to remain in the shadows and air everything, so long as names and places are not identified so as to be slandered? Or, should all teacher bloggers identify themselves, both to act as good blogger role models but also to be held accountable, to some extent, for their words and ideas? Should they make their students, colleagues, administrators and others aware of their RSS feed and ask for comments and feedback? I would be curious to hear more about what you think about this issue of teacher identity online. Good luck with your courses this summer. Thanks, Troy Hi Julie,

Congrats on overcoming your technical difficulties and continuing with your first online teaching experience!

I think that you make an important point when you suggest that “As I am even blogging about how my own class that I am teaching online is going, I have to think about who the audience is.” Of the many teachers with whom I have worked over the past five years, this continues to be a dominant theme in all online spaces such as digital portfolios, and especially now with blogging.

So, here is a question… what do you think of teachers blogging anonymously? If the point of the blog is to critically reflect on one’s practice and not just gripe — with only minimal expectation that there will be a response — then is it OK to remain in the shadows and air everything, so long as names and places are not identified so as to be slandered?

Or, should all teacher bloggers identify themselves, both to act as good blogger role models but also to be held accountable, to some extent, for their words and ideas? Should they make their students, colleagues, administrators and others aware of their RSS feed and ask for comments and feedback?

I would be curious to hear more about what you think about this issue of teacher identity online. Good luck with your courses this summer.

Thanks,
Troy

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