I found it difficult to analyze my own writing style from all the posts in this course. As I was looking through the posts, I noticed that my responses reflected a social dialog approach. According to Collison, Elbaum, Haavind, & Tinker (2000) stated in the social arena, “the teacher uses observation and personal reflection to invite a substantive discussion about bounding experiences (p. 21).” Based on this definition, I know that I have included several personal experiences and reflections throughout this course. Here is an example of social dialogue while trying to build a community: “thank you for your amazing insights about social dialogue. I guess when I was reading the book I did not think about what the author was truly saying until your comment. I can relate to your comment and agree with you whole-heartedly.”
As I continue to analysis my writing style I realized that I take on more of the reflective guide and personal muse roles. I typically keep my postings short and try to weed out any irrelevant information which is a characteristic of reflective guide. As for the personal muse role, I would respond by challenging my own beliefs to enhance my thought processes to generate new ideas and concepts. As for the other voices like generative guide, conceptual facilitator, mediator, and role play I have not used any of these voices in my discussion questions or posting. I was thinking about why I did not use the other voices and it comes down to my comfort level with them. I know when I facilitate my first online class I will be able to use the other voices more efficiently than what I did throughout this course.
Even though teaching an online course is intimidating to me, I want to challenge myself by teaching an online course in the future. As I develop and learn from facilitating an online course my intimidation decreases and my confidence increases. This particular equation will help me be successful when I do decide to set up an online course.
Thank you to my fellow classmates for all your support and thoughts.
Tammy
As I continue to analysis my writing style I realized that I take on more of the reflective guide and personal muse roles. I typically keep my postings short and try to weed out any irrelevant information which is a characteristic of reflective guide. As for the personal muse role, I would respond by challenging my own beliefs to enhance my thought processes to generate new ideas and concepts. As for the other voices like generative guide, conceptual facilitator, mediator, and role play I have not used any of these voices in my discussion questions or posting. I was thinking about why I did not use the other voices and it comes down to my comfort level with them. I know when I facilitate my first online class I will be able to use the other voices more efficiently than what I did throughout this course.
Even though teaching an online course is intimidating to me, I want to challenge myself by teaching an online course in the future. As I develop and learn from facilitating an online course my intimidation decreases and my confidence increases. This particular equation will help me be successful when I do decide to set up an online course.
Thank you to my fellow classmates for all your support and thoughts.
Tammy
And, thank you for an interesting Blog!
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