Comments on: LifeStream Summary 8 & 9 http://edc11.education.ed.ac.uk/neilb/2011/11/20/lifestream-summary-8-9/ part of the MSc in E-learning at the University of Edinburgh Tue, 10 Apr 2012 10:20:30 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.1 By: Kevin http://edc11.education.ed.ac.uk/neilb/2011/11/20/lifestream-summary-8-9/#comment-115 Kevin Tue, 22 Nov 2011 21:16:41 +0000 http://edc11.education.ed.ac.uk/neilb/?p=6180#comment-115 I totally understand the feeling of taking a step back and then feeling disconnected when you return. The course kept going even though I was removed temporarily from it. The beauty I find of online courses is that I do have the chance to try and catch up. The material exists whether I read it or not... it is there waiting for me to pay it a visit. (sometimes I swear I can feel it taunting me...) If I miss a face-to-face interaction, the opportunity is lost, and reconnecting would be close to impossible. You can not recreate the experience of spontaneous class discussions by trying to catch up on reading the texts. I agree with both of you and Twitter in IDEL... I still have a hard time turning to Twitter. I have to force myself to post there, but then I never know what to write. You and others keep posting all of these wonderful and interesting links, and my recurring thought is how do they find them? Oh well, time to plug back in... I totally understand the feeling of taking a step back and then feeling disconnected when you return. The course kept going even though I was removed temporarily from it. The beauty I find of online courses is that I do have the chance to try and catch up. The material exists whether I read it or not… it is there waiting for me to pay it a visit. (sometimes I swear I can feel it taunting me…)

If I miss a face-to-face interaction, the opportunity is lost, and reconnecting would be close to impossible. You can not recreate the experience of spontaneous class discussions by trying to catch up on reading the texts.

I agree with both of you and Twitter in IDEL… I still have a hard time turning to Twitter. I have to force myself to post there, but then I never know what to write. You and others keep posting all of these wonderful and interesting links, and my recurring thought is how do they find them?

Oh well, time to plug back in…

]]> By: Austin Tate http://edc11.education.ed.ac.uk/neilb/2011/11/20/lifestream-summary-8-9/#comment-98 Austin Tate Sun, 20 Nov 2011 17:00:29 +0000 http://edc11.education.ed.ac.uk/neilb/?p=6180#comment-98 I agree with you about having a bad experience of using Twitter in IDEL... but I think that was the point. It was used as a way to do things that I felt were MUCH better done via a theaded discussion forum. If Twitter is seen as offering relatively immediate status and presence information it can offer a sense of community for distance learners I agree with you about having a bad experience of using Twitter in IDEL… but I think that was the point. It was used as a way to do things that I felt were MUCH better done via a theaded discussion forum. If Twitter is seen as offering relatively immediate status and presence information it can offer a sense of community for distance learners

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