So I'm coming back to school next semester! I get to teach my favorite class of all time, Chaucer, online. I'm so excited. And I plan to ensure that it's not all digital, either. Teaching is all about the student-teacher interaction--the trick here is to preserve that dynamic. Right now I'm planning to do lectures as a combination of podcasts and video. That way students can listen to class lecture in their cars if they wish. But they'll also have access to an alternative format live presentation with video, which they can watch on their computers. And that format will be able to provide pictures, music, visual aids, charts, and all the sorts things that I love to bring in to make the Middle Ages come alive. For the real-person time I'm imagining coffee hours and all sorts of more alternative venues, all of which would be optional, of course, but mighty fun. We can do it.
I can't wait!
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Dammit, you make me wish I hadn't taken a leave! I hope you will still be doing it the following semester... How exciting, tho!
Your class was the first one I took that ever incorporated technology; it would hvae been '94 or '95 We did email discussions, using pine. Remember that archaic email system? Your class was what finally forced me to learn all those codes to get into email.
Hello Laurel, so good to hear you doing so great. I hear you with the priorities... I just came back from San Diego and if I had read your blog earlier, you bet I would have stopped by. I have been working so much here and so many different jobs at the University, that it is not funny anymore. My department is not very close and I am just floating around the system it seems. I am still not finished with the dissertation but I hope this is the last pull. It's going actually alright, whatever that means since I only really have one full day a week to work on it.
Online Chaucer, wow, can I audit as an outsider phd candidate to learn how to do it??? I mean it...
All best, from
Carola
Hello Laurel, now I read your entire blog I am feeling so silly to complain about the dissertation...ohhh, it's great. It's really a blessing to read your posts and it made me think about how grateful I should be. I am thinking of you and keep you in my prayers. Please let me know if you need anything from the Midwest ....very wholesome here.
Stay in touch with your postings.
Yours,
Carola
Carola--of course you can audit as an outsider! I'll have to figure out a way to get you in the system so that you can access the site, though you may still well be in there because of your fellowship. And thank you for ALL your comments--it's so wonderful to hear from you!
I want to audit your class too! :D
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