Touch E-Words |
Issue |
Examples |
| Experiential |
What opportunities do we provide for practicing self-expression? |
Digital camera opportunities
Hands on experiences – report back
Post art/music composed by students
Have them design their own web spaces
or use the ones inside courseware
Have a cyber or poet ’s café online |
| Energy [read (S)energy] |
How do we encourage a 2 + 2 = 6 atmosphere? |
Provide opportunities for complementary skills and resources
to conduct group projects (someone
has a CD burner, someone can design the CD cover, someone writes
part of the narrative, someone
else compiles the citations). |
| Eyes |
What do we do when we can’t see
the eyes? |
Emoticons
Set up a time for students to stand
in front of the library’s live video cam and broadcast
themselves. |
| Enculturation |
How do we introduce and support different types of cultures? |
"Recipes" posted online
Provide discussions to polish ESOL.
Assign a student mentor to assist with idioms.
Provide links to sites fostering the
difference between men and women, emotional intelligence, hometown
locations and favorite haunts of class members. |
| Exceptionalities |
When does high touch only work in a face– to-face situation? |
Set up a Devil’s Advocate role play.
Design a simulation game with a gaming
software developer or other enterprising student. |
| Electronic personality |
How do you come across to the readers? |
Re-read your own emails to students. Do
you come across as cold, callous and
uncaring? Do you use student names, compassionate language,
caring words? |
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