Keeping a journal is not only a place to reflect on one's life whether academic or personal, but it can be therapeutic at times. My initial experience with an online course left me with the following thoughts:
Sharing thoughts through discussion can make participants not feel they are the only ones going through the same experience, and it also allows links with others besides the instructor.
Giving students a say in rule formation empowers them as well as gives the instructor further strength for providing this opportunity.These rules will act as a way of unification of our input that is feeding in from different geographical locations, backgrounds and mentalities.
Communicating with students and promptly responding brings vigor to the course; in addition, the audience is not only the instructor but the classmates as well.
Ending with a saying is insightful, so I share this from the O magazine (September 2007) in which Oprah realizes that a mountain is one of the great metaphors for life after setting a goal of reaching a 3,000 feet from her house. She concludes that "It makes no difference how many peaks you reach if there was no pleasure in the climb". I believe we all found pleasure in climbing our first peak: Week 1!
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