Online learning I feel will always be different from in person or even a hybrid class. The reason why I say this is because with an online class, there is no face to face or group talks, it’s just all through a computer. This is my third semester doing online classes and I can definitely say that I do miss doing classes in person but do like online classes as well. First thing is, online classes are convenient because you can be at home, in your pj’s just doing homework. The environment, for the most part, is quite and you don’t have to face people that may annoy you. Here’s the down side, you don’t really get the chance to become friends with anyone like you would if you lived on the campus or where just even taking classes on campus. You miss the people interaction or the funny jokes that can happen during lessons. I may be reflecting on high school too much, since it wasn’t that long ago for me graduating this year and all, but there are just some things that the online classes miss because of it not being in person.
I think that the benefits of taking an English class online is not having to listen to lectures and just starting on the assignments. I’m sure that there are teachers how make the lectures fun and such but from my past experience, most are quite boring. Sorry in advance. Also a benefit of online is not having to read the stories out loud in class with everyone else. I know someone is going to bash me for this but when the teacher decides that the whole class should read a story out loud or listen to the book on tape, it’s not fun. It’s not the fact that a person my read slower than another, that’s fine with me. It’s when you get to a person that doesn’t even care to be reading the story or when the person on the tape is just droning on and on. Who wants to be in that type of situation? I know I don’t.
I’m not sure if this is technology but I think that the website Blogger.com was very beneficial to me. I never was a person to blog before and didn’t really have an interest in them but throughout the semester, this site has been very fun. I think its way better than doing discussion boards because it’s more interactive this way. People can personal their own profiles and when you look at another person’s page, you can find out a bit about them; like you would if you were meeting them in a classroom.
I may in the future look at the websites I go onto and see if they do any blogging because it’s always fun to talk to people on a topic that you are both interested in. and why not? You may find out that the person you are talking to is a friend of yours, someone you like, and so on. (High schooly I know, but hey it can happen).
http://howtoblog.org/
