Posts Tagged ‘online class’
Managing Children and Studies
Thursday, December 11th, 2008
It’s difficult enough balancing kids with housework, so the thought of successfully pursuing an online degree may seem impossible. However, taking online education courses can actually be quite manageable for parents. If you think that children are always in the way of your education troubles, think again. It’s all a matter of proper children management. There are actually many ways in which having children could help you achieve online degree success. One of them is assigning them important roles in the house. Not only will you be able to concentrate on your studies, you’ll get to cut yourself some home chore slack.
Plan a dinner and shopping list. Give your kids dinner duty and have them peruse a cookbook or kid-safe recipe Web site. Have them stick Post-it® notes on or print out favorite recipes. Then have them vote on one entrée, one side dish and one dessert. Next, have your kids read through the required ingredients for the winning recipes and make a grocery list for needed items. Plan a night to cook together as a family.
- Increase the Fun: Ask a restaurant for paper chef hats for your kids to wear. After the dinner is cooked, have your children “play restaurant” and serve you.
Free choice chore duty. Kids like exercising some control over their choices. Have them be “Inspectors” and walk around the house with a clipboard, noting chores that need to be done. Then, have your kids hold a meeting and each choose two chores. After they complete the chores, let them inspect each other’s performance.
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Difficulty in communication not a problem.
Sunday, November 30th, 2008
As always, effective communication is critical to success on and off the computer and I am not just talking about online classes. It’s even more important in the online class environment because your instructor can’t see your frown, or hear the question in your voice. Here, you’ll be responsible for initiating more contact, for being persistent and vocal when you don’t understand something. Your instructor wants to help so please write your question and send it along, express your confusion, your concern, and be direct! You will save a lot of time, and both you and your instructor will know better what you intend. Be sure and ask about anything and everything that has to do with course content, course procedure and evaluation. In this type of environment, you can never be too sure if the thoughts that you have on your mind, or the questions that you have for your professor to make them clear and to receive in return the correct answers for your understanding is some what difficult to process in the beginning but later on you will get used to clarifying things and explaining more clearly. This way, when you are faced with a question in actuality or in real life, you should be used to answering and defining clearly and properly and people will like you a lot for it because you are easy to talk to and easy to understand and vice-versa. Remember, a clear voice is key in real life to clarify things, but over the Internet for online classes, a clear thought is the way to go.
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