As exciting as the lesson we are learning are I am experiencing some very mixed emotions. I think we are learning some useful and engaging tools which would work very well to both deliver knowledge and engagement to my online students but the structure of my work is slowly changing from an online educational facilitator to a grading monkey.
We seem to be moving away from control over content, curriculum and delivery to that of a grader of work. This is very depressing when one stops to consider the incredible possibilities that are being developed an exist right now.
I really enjoyed the Animoto production and I can see the benefit of using voice threads in my online teaching. Even though I did spend an extraordinary amount of time on the work over the last six weeks I have fallen behind.
I am also a bit discouraged that my blog has not generated much feed back as I have endeavored to cover topics that I would like to know my classmates opinions on.
Though no reflection I have been late in posting the last view blogs and everyone is quite busy. So to sum up. Busy, enjoying learning the new tools, depressed about not being able to use them in my class, excited I got to produce the animoto for my vacation just love it.
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I love the honesty!!! I too like to hear what my classmates have to say and have also been a tad late the past two sessions. Ah well. I keep thinking that things are going to slow down and I'll find the great reservoir of time that will allow me to truly implement the tools we've been using.
ReplyDeleteI want to ask if you think that the grading is worse than that of a traditional teacher? I ask because I can go through assignments but I have the added input from knowing the students both in and out of class. I get to interact with them and hold informal conversations so I think that my job of grading may be easier as I have additional (but still informal) ways of assessing students. Then again, is that a downfall as I may have certain expectations as to the ability of the students before I sit down with their assignments...?