{"id":46,"date":"2007-02-20T21:53:19","date_gmt":"2007-02-21T02:53:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/?p=46"},"modified":"2007-05-22T05:35:49","modified_gmt":"2007-05-22T10:35:49","slug":"what-if-class-were-like-a-chat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/2007\/02\/20\/what-if-class-were-like-a-chat\/","title":{"rendered":"What if class were like a chat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is right out of my eTech presentation.<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"460\" height=\"379\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/oT9XoJLDNjE\"><\/param><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/oT9XoJLDNjE\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" wmode=\"transparent\" width=\"425\" height=\"350\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>If you have ever taken an online class with a chat component, the video should ring true.\u00a0 Here are the points I made about chats in online classes.<\/p>\n<p>Chats\u00a0<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Inefficient<\/li>\n<li>Difficult for instructor to control<\/li>\n<li>Difficult for students to follow<\/li>\n<li>Painful if you type slow<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I have never been in a chat that didn&#8217;t take three times as long as any other method of interaction. The quality of the conversation is usually poor because everyone is trying to reply as quickly as possible.<\/p>\n<p>I am part of an <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.elluminate.com\">Elluminate<\/a> pilot at UF.\u00a0 It is an expensive alternative, but the closest thing I&#8217;ve seen to a virtual face-to-face class.\u00a0 It even works well from a dial-up connection.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to Buzz Dyer for taking the leading role in my chat video.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is right out of my eTech presentation. If you have ever taken an online class with a chat component, the video should ring true.\u00a0 Here are the points I made about chats in online classes. Chats\u00a0 Inefficient Difficult for &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/2007\/02\/20\/what-if-class-were-like-a-chat\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[336],"class_list":["post-46","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-edtech","tag-edtech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}