July 9, 2007
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“What are you going to do today, Napoleon?”
“Whatever I feel like doing. Gosh.”
It’s a breeze… this online summer class. I’ve been spoiled this summer with ten students who actually seem to have a grasp on things.* Let me say that taking this course (or any summer course) isn’t easy; I’ve smooshed 16-17 weeks of work into 8. And that’s tough on students who don’t get daily face-to-face motivation from myself and others in an on-campus classroom. But they are doing well, and I think the fact that I highlighted even more so what I wanted them to get out of Fahrenheit 451 (a reader-response more than author-centered approach) has helped. Yet some students like the history. They are perhaps math geeks who like one right answer? Anyhow, the class has moved/is moving along well.
It’s classes like this, though, that give me the oddest feedback. My perceptions are not always theirs. It’s similar to this whole cross-cultural communication men & women partake in… only these are students without faces.*This may have something to do with the fact that I more organized this time around. “Been there, done that,” helps with online education. Kudos to those students who learned along with me last summer.
