Notes on a collabrative scandal -or- since I didnt label my last post "Journal #4"

Well I suppose I better get to it and make sure that I have this posted! I dont suppose that I actually looked at the calendar correctly to realize that it's the third week of October and we are getting ready to round third and head for home to quote a cliched baseball term...

Well my analysis and discussions with Junetheia were productive in the sense that it gave me a very clear example of how easily we can overlook each other if we are truly not communicating. what I thought was a pretty obvious tendency in Distance Learning with individuals communicating actively with each other was certainly not the case for Junetheia. She mentioned that her family impression was just the opposite in that they tried to just do the assignments and get the grade.

it's interesting to me, because as I mentioned in the discussion piece this past week, sometimes we have to get beyond the grades and get into active learning...but in order to do just that, we need to make sure we are all on the same page and are talking to each other as a general rule of thumb.

overall, the assignment confirms for the value of the DL environment as we continue to learn just a little more from each other every day.

Just a few thoughts in October

I'm not sure what this picture has to do with anything, but it's always a good idea to reference Morris Day and the Time....

What have I learned through the first month to six weeks of the class, I think in a nutshell it's that we all have a lot to offer, and that we often don't look to all of the sources that we have available to us. We are quick to look to the basic sources for our information- the news, the media, the internet sources which are quickly available to us, but don't always give us the full breadth of information. Junetheia made a great point that she would not have seen much of the ideas that I posted to this little old blog- and I havent even gone political, so I feel great that I was able to have an effect.

I think that we can add alot to each other, and if we are willing to share and work with our friends- we can go far. I think that we are all going to get a lot from this class and our sharing of information and ideas in this last exercise has been a great example of this.

Plus I got a great chance to reference The Time!!! Life is good indeed!