Learning Technologies: Design & Applications

Communicating Online

One of them most practical things I learned in the MET program is how to discuss online.

At first, I was writing dissertations and I didn’t know how to use the HTML, so my comments were big blocks of words!

At one point, in one of the courses, we touched on:

• the importance of changing the label of your discussion (easier to retrieve)
• the necessity of being brief, clear and informative
• the delicate nature of communicating with written words only… hence the positive use of emoticons (they help make people feel more at ease) 🙂
• KISS (Keep it simple and … “something”!!) – just learned this one recently.

It is sometimes a challenge to feel “connected”… but when I think of our community of practice, I see professionals who are interested in learning and developing their competence.