I began teaching my first "online course" today. Meaning, I sat at home in front of my PC, people sat in conference rooms or workstations in a faroff city and I tried to teach them stuff.
Tech support at the other end assured me, they had a sweet little free software in place to manage the online learning... Well, well, if it isn't another small, inexpensive thingy!!
Having experienced Elluminate and WebEx before, I was quite gung ho about a tiny piece of freeware doing stuff that the biggies were doing...
After a few false starts, I got off to my well-oiled performance (teaching, I am convinced, is first and foremost, a performance. As in drama, action!)Pretty quickly, my act was falling apart... especially when I referred dramatically to my pet point on slide four and was then told, they were still seeing slide 1 at their end!!!! Oh sigh. The biggies have something going for them. Or at least, I havent found the right small thing yet in this case.
Well, we've got time to lick the system in shape (got 9 more classes to go).
The experience is definitely worth it!
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