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Can Democracy Be Disembodied?
This is a new teaching format for me and is one that I resisted for some time before capitulating. My main objection initially was that I could not see how...
Posted on Feb 01, 2010 - 11:15 AM by Kristan Morrison in democracy.edu
This semester, I am teaching one section of my graduate-level foundations of education course as an online class. It is a synchronous class, meaning we use the Adobe Connect software to meet in a virtual classroom from 6-9 pm each Wednesday night. It is like a conference call on steroids -- we can hear one anothers' voices (assuming the technology is working for us, which, so far, has not always been the case), we can see visuals (such as documents I post, things I write on the whiteboard, videos, etc.), and we can do written chat.This is a new teaching format for me and is one that I resisted for some time before capitulating. My main objection initially was that I could not see how...