Comments on: Teachers’ Online Personas (Discussion from My Dissertation Defense) http://hickstro.org/2007/05/22/teachers-online-personas-discussion-from-my-dissertation-defense/ Integrating New Literacies into the Teaching of Writing Fri, 13 Jan 2012 10:31:16 -0800 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 By: Post #2- C&I 438 « Good Eats…..for Dietetics Education http://hickstro.org/2007/05/22/teachers-online-personas-discussion-from-my-dissertation-defense/comment-page-1/#comment-617 Post #2- C&I 438 « Good Eats…..for Dietetics Education Sun, 10 Jun 2007 01:42:46 +0000 http://hickstro.org/2007/05/22/teachers-online-personas-discussion-from-my-dissertation-defense/#comment-617 [...] Post #2- C&I 438 This week has been a test of patience with technology. As the course management system that I am using for the course I am taking online had troubles opening and lost much of our data/posts; flexibility in how a distance ed course is run became essential. Since our course had to move from the original course management system, I learned about other sites that could support course development and publishing. We moved our course to a wiki site, classmate’s blog sites, and a social networking site, ning. After reviewing other educational blogs on the internet, I was surprised to read Lee Kraus’s blog which discussed some of these same web tools. Kraus even suggested that social networks may emerge as a leading filter of learning content. He hypothesizes that an educator’s role will become more focused on assessment and evaluation and they will serve as the expert in within the social networks. I never thought about using a social network for a class, but now that I am registered with my class’s network, I am very excited and motivated actively participate in the course activities. It is a unique additional opportunity to engage on the internet.Another thing I thought about as we students quickly switched to blogs, wikis, social networking sites, is the privacy issue that often concerns education and the read/write web. Fortunately, with adult students, there is not as much of a concern with this as there is with K-12 classes. Troy Hicks wrote about this issue on his blog. He also discussed the challenges some teachers face with not having access to some of these internet sites at their school, which I feel is unfortunate. I know in my work, I am unable to get some area dietitians to correspond with my students on our class blog, because the dietitian’s employers will not allow access to blog sites.   Troy also discussed how teachers’ online persona can be hard to develop and how administrators have expectations of teachers’ online persona. As I am even blogging about how my own class that I am teaching online is going, I have to think about who the audience is. I wouldn’t want to become political in any issues of the college I teach for or negatively write about too many things. I understand the concern that administrators have about the published work on the internet. I want to make these educational technologies a positive aspect of my work. [...] [...] Post #2- C&I 438 This week has been a test of patience with technology. As the course management system that I am using for the course I am taking online had troubles opening and lost much of our data/posts; flexibility in how a distance ed course is run became essential. Since our course had to move from the original course management system, I learned about other sites that could support course development and publishing. We moved our course to a wiki site, classmate’s blog sites, and a social networking site, ning. After reviewing other educational blogs on the internet, I was surprised to read Lee Kraus’s blog which discussed some of these same web tools. Kraus even suggested that social networks may emerge as a leading filter of learning content. He hypothesizes that an educator’s role will become more focused on assessment and evaluation and they will serve as the expert in within the social networks. I never thought about using a social network for a class, but now that I am registered with my class’s network, I am very excited and motivated actively participate in the course activities. It is a unique additional opportunity to engage on the internet.Another thing I thought about as we students quickly switched to blogs, wikis, social networking sites, is the privacy issue that often concerns education and the read/write web. Fortunately, with adult students, there is not as much of a concern with this as there is with K-12 classes. Troy Hicks wrote about this issue on his blog. He also discussed the challenges some teachers face with not having access to some of these internet sites at their school, which I feel is unfortunate. I know in my work, I am unable to get some area dietitians to correspond with my students on our class blog, because the dietitian’s employers will not allow access to blog sites.   Troy also discussed how teachers’ online persona can be hard to develop and how administrators have expectations of teachers’ online persona. As I am even blogging about how my own class that I am teaching online is going, I have to think about who the audience is. I wouldn’t want to become political in any issues of the college I teach for or negatively write about too many things. I understand the concern that administrators have about the published work on the internet. I want to make these educational technologies a positive aspect of my work. [...]

]]> By: Troy Hicks http://hickstro.org/2007/05/22/teachers-online-personas-discussion-from-my-dissertation-defense/comment-page-1/#comment-614 Troy Hicks Thu, 24 May 2007 19:00:07 +0000 http://hickstro.org/2007/05/22/teachers-online-personas-discussion-from-my-dissertation-defense/#comment-614 Thanks again, Leigh. Yes, I agree, we get caught up in the tool and not the literacy process. I am glad that this idea came through clearly in my presentation. I am looking forward to hearing more about your work here in the near future. Please let me know how it is going. Take care, Troy Thanks again, Leigh.

Yes, I agree, we get caught up in the tool and not the literacy process. I am glad that this idea came through clearly in my presentation.

I am looking forward to hearing more about your work here in the near future. Please let me know how it is going.

Take care,
Troy

]]> By: gravesle http://hickstro.org/2007/05/22/teachers-online-personas-discussion-from-my-dissertation-defense/comment-page-1/#comment-613 gravesle Thu, 24 May 2007 12:43:16 +0000 http://hickstro.org/2007/05/22/teachers-online-personas-discussion-from-my-dissertation-defense/#comment-613 You framed the issue so well, that it does not matter if the technology changes! That is such a tricky thing to do when studying ed tech...most people get caught up in the technology itself (dreamweaver, googlepages, you name it) rather than the process, which you so eloquently focussed on! Keep that up and your work is timeless! :) You framed the issue so well, that it does not matter if the technology changes! That is such a tricky thing to do when studying ed tech…most people get caught up in the technology itself (dreamweaver, googlepages, you name it) rather than the process, which you so eloquently focussed on! Keep that up and your work is timeless! :)

]]> By: Troy Hicks http://hickstro.org/2007/05/22/teachers-online-personas-discussion-from-my-dissertation-defense/comment-page-1/#comment-612 Troy Hicks Thu, 24 May 2007 03:06:26 +0000 http://hickstro.org/2007/05/22/teachers-online-personas-discussion-from-my-dissertation-defense/#comment-612 Thanks, Leigh! I appreciate you being there and I hope that I can get the next ten years out of this -- that would be great (although I think that the technology will continue to change too quickly!). Thanks again for being there. Troy Thanks, Leigh!

I appreciate you being there and I hope that I can get the next ten years out of this — that would be great (although I think that the technology will continue to change too quickly!).

Thanks again for being there.

Troy

]]> By: gravesle http://hickstro.org/2007/05/22/teachers-online-personas-discussion-from-my-dissertation-defense/comment-page-1/#comment-611 gravesle Wed, 23 May 2007 14:04:54 +0000 http://hickstro.org/2007/05/22/teachers-online-personas-discussion-from-my-dissertation-defense/#comment-611 You did a fantastic job! And I agree..a great discussion ensued after your presentation. As someone mentioned, you planted the seeds for volumes of research to pursue over the next 10 years!!!! :) Congratulations. You did a fantastic job! And I agree..a great discussion ensued after your presentation. As someone mentioned, you planted the seeds for volumes of research to pursue over the next 10 years!!!! :) Congratulations.

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