Laura Gibbs, online instructor, OU

I just read Ed's blog post about the very human problems they have run into while implementing some technology-assisted learning at his school. I FEEL HIS PAIN. Although the experience I am going to write about here is in no way comparable in terms of scope to what Ed has written about, I do want to share this experience, because it really has convinced me that there are actually a lot of very intelligent teachers out… Continue

As someone teaching online classes and conducting my entire professional life online, I often find myself having to explain over and over and over again to people that I actually feel MORE connected this way than I ever did sitting in an office, in a building, where I had basically nothing in common with any of the people in that building. Now, teaching online, sitting, virtually, in the little node of the Internet which I occupy, connecting up with other people who teach online, other people wh… Continue

I am a bit hesitant to post this but I've really got to say something somewhere, just to VENT… I sometimes despair about the lack of knowledge of Latin by the teachers on a Latin teachers listserve in which I participate. I don't mean lack of knowledge of the minutiae of Latin grammar or difficult vocabulary, etc. I mean what seems to be almost a complete lack of basic knowledge about the language itself. Today, for example, a teacher who participates actively in the list sent around this reques… Continue