Thursday, January 22, 2009

Linguistics Week 1

So this first blog entry of the semester is supposed to be a reflection of what we did in our first week of class. Now since we didn't do too much I am going to make this particular entry short and sweet.

I think the most interesting part of our first week was just getting situated with all of this new technology. I've never had an online course before so it was pretty amazing to see that even though it was different than a face-to-face class it seems like it will still be an effective "classroom" type of experience. The only thing that I was wondering while we were in class was how we were going to take turns speaking since there is going to be very little visual information shared. For example, we can't raise our hands but since that doesn't always happen in a graduate course anyways I'm sure the turn-taking will be fine. Besides that I don't have much to say except for wishing everyone a good semester.

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