A bit of a reflection…
May 1, 2006Living in a world of black and white would just be way too easy so we settle for grey. The epitome of this seems to be that of the concept of defining pornography. Pornography now exists in a way that has not been seen before. The cyber world of the Internet has now added the world of erotica into its ambiguity. Socially we need to evaluate this reality and come to some kind of understanding, but HOW? How can we take the opinions of the entire world into account?
This class has done a great job in presenting the difficulty in making this transition but I feel that it was a little too one way. This being an on-line course made it all the more interesting because we now have the opportunity to discuss such issues in an anonymous way. I loved the idea but found out that it did not seem to work out in such a large class. With just under 400 students I feel that some very good points got lost in the crowd and failed to come under as a topic of discussion. Perhaps students just wanted to meet their quota or maybe the fact that it was online made the venue too impersonal to spark discussion.
The encouraging aspect of this class is that there are a lot of intelligent people who have some great perspectives. This class engaged me in thinking reasonably in both ways pro and con. For such a grey area of society it seems necessary that we are as informed as possible using many different points of view before we make a decision.
Overall I think that having and online discussion venue is great as long as it is paired with an in-class meeting of some nature.
[...] EBTThis class has done a great job in presenting the difficulty in making this transition but I feel that it was a little too one way. This being an on-line course made it all the more interesting because we now have the opportunity to discuss such issues in an anonymous way. I loved the idea but found out that it did not seem to work out in such a large class. With just under 400 students I feel that some very good points got lost in the crowd and failed to come under as a topic of discussion. Perhaps students just wanted to meet their quota or maybe the fact that it was online made the venue too impersonal to spark discussion. [...]
[...] EBTThis class has done a great job in presenting the difficulty in making this transition but I feel that it was a little too one way. This being an on-line course made it all the more interesting because we now have the opportunity to discuss such issues in an anonymous way. I loved the idea but found out that it did not seem to work out in such a large class. With just under 400 students I feel that some very good points got lost in the crowd and failed to come under as a topic of discussion. Perhaps students just wanted to meet their quota or maybe the fact that it was online made the venue too impersonal to spark discussion. [...]