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Summary The online interaction was fairly
orderly, well written, interesting, and not too wordy. The students mostly stayed on task, and the conversations did not go off on too many tangents. There was a constant social element to the dialogue, as well as a
collegial temperament to professional and academic discussions. The interaction was not limited to simply course content. The students' dialogue ranged from very personal reflections, to debates on issues of society, to
story-telling, to philosophizing on age-old topics like time, to rambling on about the past Sunday's football game on TV. The interaction was a lively representation of the social-dialogical dynamics of a group of
people who spoke under varying roles: student, citizen, friend, collaborative group member, family member, online community member, educator, and fellow human. One of the most interesting observations was the ability of
this electronic display of the online interaction to reflect all of that. |
