We had a visitor in class today, Dr. Contag from the Spanish department. It was great to have an observer in class, sharing her thoughts on various topics and questions that came up.
We spent some of class focused on the differences between men and women and language use, based upon our viewing of the assigned video. I wonder how discussing this online affected the discussion. Would it have been different had we been face to face? Gender related issues can often get heated during discussion. So much communication happens through facial expression, body language and tone of voice. For the most part, we can't rely on those during our online discussions.
The class went through some of the answers to our latest quiz. I found it very interesting that some people could visualize the tree diagrams that were being described orally, while others had major difficulties. I think it was a great demonstration of the difference between visual and aural learners.
The remainder of class dealt with the final project. Some of us got special wiki tutoring. It was helpful. It was pretty amazing that we could see what Dr. Smidt was doing on her computer screen. The power of technology.
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I think we could have gotten into a much deeper discussion on the men/women video if we would have had more time, and I'm not sure if it would have been different or not. I agree that a lot of communication happens through body language and your right about relying on those thru online discussion.
ReplyDeleteI think gender discussion would be a heat discussion face to face. Most probably the class would be divided into two.
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