Lift Off

Honestly, I feel tormented between my growing interest towards this class and trying to stay afloat with all of my other courses which I am equally engaged. I am still struggling with devoting the time to connect with my peers in this course by reading and responding to their comments. It has been so much easier to connect with peers in my other classes because they are in person and we can chat before class, after class or during break. Though one positive feature of this course is that it provides more access to everyone at all times of the day. Yet accessibility doesn’t help with my availability. Therefore, I feel the biggest connection with my peers has been commiserating over being overwhelmed by this class.

To my excitement, this weekend I created a new blog with more options, I created a blogroll, edited the Wiki class list and added both an RSS feed for my site and one for comments and I downloaded Sage in order to have a live bookmark for all of your sites. The best part is that I think I knew what I was doing. Now I am ready to set up a blog for my husband so he has one on music. There is no question I have learned in this course.

According to the article we read by Daithí Ó Murchú and Brent Muirhead, critical thinking requires learners to be proactive, tenacious towards problem-solving and flexible to new ideas and solutions. Nathan, are these the unspoken objectives of the course?

Difficulties I see with this course so far are high amounts of stress and discomfort with novel technology.

I wonder about possible conflict with an auditory learning style? I am not an auditory learner, but I have more than once wondered about how an auditory learner experiences such a visual course.