I just posted this message as a comment but since I think it’s kind of lost there and hard to find I’m posting it here. I would like to think the organization of this course through because I do not really know what is going to happen with the pace etc.
“I’d prefer to keep up the pace but wouldn’t mind too much if we would slow down because there are people who want to give the texts and exercises more time. I don’t have a lot of time myself but I like the speed in exercising; we could come back to earlier exercises later on or after the course. One method for me to save some time though is to skip the posts that are too long for me to read. I’m interested in doing the exercises and commenting on them with some quick notes so that it is more like talking to each other. I think this was originally meant to be this way; notes for the diary in your diary, notes for communication on the internet. Besides I feel that not taking up too much space (at least in the beginnnig of this course) in the posts is also helping better to form a community of inquiry. To do this I think it also would be helpful if Jack had a separate space in the posting area so that he is able to comment on posts and connect them at the same time; more like what a teacher can do in the non-virtual classroom. I think it would be more fruitful this way, save reading-time as well and would be more inviting to other people to write a post or comment.
In short; let’s keep up the pace, install a preferred maximum length for posts and comments and have Jack in a place that we can all immediately notice what he’s doing and use this as a guideline to other posts and comments. But mainly let’s adapt this community of inquiry to the preferences of the participants.
Frans
Since I just started reading the course material and doing the exercises two days ago, I would very much welcome a slower pace. I’ve been cramming — obviously not a good way to explore TSK — but it seems others are feeling time pressure as well.
Joel
Hello Peter,
I’m not suggesting that Jack would give value to a post or comment but that he would connect them, that he would ask questions like “what if you compare you remark on this or that with what person X is writing in that post”. Or, like I have now read in one of Jack’s comments to David;
” I am struck by how you refer to the shift as “momentary.†This has come up in other descriptions by various people of the effect of other exercises. This is to be expected, but I do wonder whether it makes sense to reflect back from time to time to see if there are changes going on that are not only momentary.”
It is easy to miss these remarks by Jack if you don’t have the time to check all the posts and comments, and the amount of comments will probably only increase over time.
So I fully agree with your dismissal of Jack valuating the posts and giving people the idea that what they write is not worth posting. But that is also certainly not what I propose.
I would like him to have a special place like for example what is now called “Jack’s corner” where he, as teacher of this course, or initiator, coach and instructor of this community of inquiry, can give his comments for all to see in a very easy to discover way.
regards Frans
I agree. Jedoch: es wird schwierig sein, wenn Jack einige Kommentare bewertet, z.B. als weiterführend/anregend oder weniger weiterführend. Sehr schnell könnte ein Gruppendruck entstehen, der dazu führt, doch lieber nichts zu schreiben, denn es könnte ja als “dummes Zeug” angesehen werden. (Das arme “Ich”!)
Mit Grüßen, Peter.