I'm thrilled that this summer's online semester at the NSOU (New School Online University) is including my course again - Writing Across Media. I've been teaching this course, remotely from London, for the past 9 years (or should that be 10, as it started in 2000?). Amazingly online courses thrive and students, not to mention teachers, really enjoy them. As my class is a writing workshop, I think it works better than purely academic courses. Each class member (15+) gets his or her own Writing Portfolio, in which they post their Assignments. I provide lecture materials, which are really more like discussion topics, for students also to respond to. Once everyone gets into the swing of things, discussions are lively and rewarding. I can't tell you how much I've learned from my students - I wouldn't be doing this blog today without the encouragement, if not to say badgering, of the younger class members. Not to mention Twitter, which used to fill me with dread, but now I'm a nervous beginning Twitterer..... find me at @carolwriting (please!).
I'm going to be busy in the next few weeks, as I have English students booked up during the summer months, including one right now, who is all the way from the Oman, who will have been staying with us and studying English for a whole month. That shows a lot of perseverance.... especially as the weather, as usual, ain't that hot! But I'm going to get back to basics with this blog very soon and really expand its topics and scope.
Comments please? Would love to hear from someone out there....
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