{"id":239,"date":"2021-05-11T08:48:26","date_gmt":"2021-05-11T14:48:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0221\/?p=239"},"modified":"2021-05-11T09:39:21","modified_gmt":"2021-05-11T15:39:21","slug":"unit-3-reflections-and-musings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0221\/unit-3-reflections-and-musings\/","title":{"rendered":"Unit 3 &#8211; Reflections and Musings"},"content":{"rendered":"<h6><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;color: #004490\">Do I have a responsibility to give as much as I take online?<\/span><\/h6>\n<p>This is a question I have been asking myself since listening to the Participatory open Panel discussion with Dave Cormier, Lawrie Phipps, and Bonnie Stewart. In discussions with a cohort member this week, we shared our feelings of contribution inadequacy, and the looming fear of having &#8216;nothing to offer&#8217; to the web. <!--more-->This puts me specifically in a position of taking lots, and giving very little. In reflecting on the question posed about \u2018pulling back from participating in the web\u2019 (Phipps, L. \u00a02019), I\u2019ve come to realize that I have pulled back from \u2018leaving a trace\u2019 in open digital spaces because of this fear. Overcoming these feelings of apprehension are a goal I have for this year. I want to help build a web that I am proud to be a part of (Cormier, D. 2019).<\/p>\n<p>An additional reading that was of particular interest to me, was Critical Inquiry in a Text-Based Environment: Computer Conferencing in Higher Education by D. Randy Garrison, Terry Anderson, and Walter Archer. Specifically, the trifecta for success in computer conferencing for learning, which is establishing a cognitive presence, social presence, and teaching presence. Of particular interest was reading that humor and vulnerability are a key tool in developing social presence, and can be akin to \u201can invitation to start a conversation\u201d (Gorham and Christophel 1990).The teacher or facilitator\u2019s responsibility to nurture this social presence while providing direct instruction or instructional feedback, while still encouraging cognitive presence, presents a delicate challenge for educators in a time where opportunities for &#8216;in-class&#8217; control appears to be decreasing with the rise of technological interventions.<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">References<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: .5in;text-indent: -.5in\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Stewart, B., Phipps, L., &amp; Cormier, D. (2019, April 10).\u00a0The Participatory open: Can we build a Pro-Social, Pro-Societal web?\u00a0[Video]. You Tube.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/oer19.oerconf.org\/sessions\/the-participatory-open-can-we-build-a-pro-social-pro-societal-web-o-127\/\">https:\/\/oer19.oerconf.org\/sessions\/the-participatory-open-can-we-build-a-pro-social-pro-societal-web-o-127\/<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: .5in;text-indent: -.5in\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Garrison, R., Anderson, T., &amp; Archer, W. (2000).\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/ezproxy.royalroads.ca\/login?url=http:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S1096751600000166\">Critical inquiry in text based environment: Computer conferencing in higher education<\/a>.\u00a0The Internet and Higher Education,\u00a02(2\u20133), 87\u2013105.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do I have a responsibility to give as much as I take online? This is a question I have been asking myself since listening to the Participatory open Panel discussion with Dave Cormier, Lawrie Phipps, and Bonnie Stewart. In discussions with a cohort member this week, we shared our feelings of contribution inadequacy, and the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0221\/unit-3-reflections-and-musings\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Unit 3 &#8211; Reflections and Musings&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":215,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reflections"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0221\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0221\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0221\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0221\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/215"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0221\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=239"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0221\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":251,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0221\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239\/revisions\/251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0221\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0221\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0221\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}