{"id":74,"date":"2008-01-30T11:29:44","date_gmt":"2008-01-30T17:29:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.perceptivepetal.com\/wordpress\/?p=74"},"modified":"2008-01-30T11:35:28","modified_gmt":"2008-01-30T17:35:28","slug":"to-be-a-student-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.perceptivepetal.com\/wordpress\/to-be-a-student-again\/","title":{"rendered":"To Be a Student Again!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"color: black; font-family: Arial\">I was excited to hear about the Educational Gaming and Simulations in Second Life class taught\u00a0online through\u00a0Boise State.<span>\u00a0 <\/span>It was a tad pricey at $1044 with a $55 application fee, but I thought \u2013 it sounds like just what I need.<span>\u00a0 <\/span>I submitted my application online and awaited the registration information.<span>\u00a0 <\/span>When I got an email, it was to inform me that the class was full.<span>\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"color: black; font-family: Arial\"><span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: black; font-family: Arial\">Bummer.<\/span><span style=\"color: black; font-family: Arial\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: black; font-family: Arial\"> <\/span><span style=\"color: black; font-family: Arial\">Well, I kept trying; and someone dropped (Thank you!) so I got into the class\u00a0<span>\u00a0 <\/span>I got all registered, and was given a login to their student records system, email (Novell mail), and Blackboard.<\/span><span style=\"color: black; font-family: Arial\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: black; font-family: Arial\"><span style=\"color: black; font-family: Arial\">I ordered my books through Amazon.com and paid the additional $13 to have the one copy available online.<span>\u00a0 <\/span>They came promptly to me via two different carriers.<\/span><span style=\"color: black; font-family: Arial\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"color: black; font-family: Arial\">I didn\u2019t want to be the first to put out an introduction, but by the time I checked in again, I had 35 posts to read in the Blackboard course management system.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"color: black; font-family: Arial\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"color: black; font-family: Arial\">It is wonderful to get a fresh perspective on online learning, and taking this course has forced me to reflect on what I put my students through.\u00a0 Am I clear in my expectations and assignments?\u00a0 Can they find everything easily?\u00a0 Am I prompt with replies and available?<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"color: black; font-family: Arial\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"color: black; font-family: Arial\">Self reflection is good, right?\u00a0 \ud83d\ude42 <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was excited to hear about the Educational Gaming and Simulations in Second Life class taught\u00a0online through\u00a0Boise State.\u00a0 It was a tad pricey at $1044 with a $55 application fee, but I thought \u2013 it sounds like just what I need.\u00a0 I submitted my application online and awaited the registration information.\u00a0 When I got an&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[24,20,11,16],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.perceptivepetal.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.perceptivepetal.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.perceptivepetal.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.perceptivepetal.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.perceptivepetal.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.perceptivepetal.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.perceptivepetal.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.perceptivepetal.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.perceptivepetal.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}