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While I was catching up on reading and responding to student introductions in
\nmy online section of HU211 (Intro to Humanities) this\"A
\nmorning, our guest visited the back porch and set out with his ritual morning
\nmewl. Through the crying, which, without any change in pitch or volume,
\nseemed to escalate into a blaring feline yawp over time, I read about one
\nstudent who is mid-way through his USMC career and just two courses from a BA in
\nEmergency Management. His introduction (a brief, paragraph-or-so sketch)
\nwas comparatively candid when read alongside those of peers. He mentioned
\nliving in an inherited house in a sluggish Pennsylvania town, while waiting for
\nFEMA to start hiring again.<\/p>\n

When teaching online courses, I find that early term interactions
\nsignificantly condition the level of engagement throughout the accelerated eight
\nweek term. No surprising discovery here. I’ve been at it for two
\nyears now, experimenting with my role in these courses, and when I jump in early
\nwith frequent and substantive posts\u2014as instructor\u2014the course reflects the
\nstimulus and the threaded discussions are considerably more vibrant. In
\ncomparable f2f courses, I have found the class benefits from a solid starts, but
\nit’s possible for the course take off even if I moderate my presence, my role as
\n“teacher,” into something less visible, less assertively
\nauthoritative. This has me thinking about the relation of physicality and body
\nlanguage to teaching presence in f2f courses and how those issues compare for
\nonline courses (where the teaching is variously present through photos,
\nbiographical blurbs, threaded interactions, and rigid curricular content).
\nIn other words, where is the teacher’s “body” in online education; is
\nit an imagined corpus extending from the factors listed here? Stamped by
\nthe discipline or the institution?<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

I responded to the student with a few details about my pre-academic
\nprofessional life, brief as it was. (Hell, my work isn’t neatly academic
\nnow, either.) I told him about intervening with crises as an independent
\nclaims handler in Saginaw and Detroit, about the need to hire security to
\nprotect burnt property in Detroit until the site could be evaluated, damage
\nassessed, splash digs concluded to rule out arson. No security could mean
\na second wave of damage: copper pipes, siding, plumbing fixtures all gone.
\nWhat good are they in a burnt building, after all?<\/p>\n

It’s good news that FEMA’s not hiring, I told the student, noting that it is
\nbittersweet that national crises are well in hand. Ahem. Or maybe
\nit’s just that current national crises can’t be helped by kind of assistance
\nFEMA provides. In my own back yard, literally, the crisis is the regular
\nscreeching visitor. Feed it? Invite it inside? Dot
\nhas already given the collar-less, claw-wielding cat a name: Pepe.
\nCute. And she’s fed it tuna fish. Phillip, our son, helped.
\nBut they’re both allergic to cat dander, and our aging Yorky can’t bear the
\nstress, and I’m superstitious about keeping it, feeding it, looking at it, heck,
\neven knowing it’s around. But is it worse to get rid of a black cat? I
\ndon’t even want to tamper with it. Throwing cold water at it crossed my
\nmind; that’s what my folks always did to send strays on the way. But it’s
\nbelow freezing; we don’t want a frozen cat on our porch. Tried calling
\nWayside Waifs and the vet to learn about alternatives. The whole thing has
\nme feeling uneasy. Should return to course prep\u2014bury myself in work\u2014to avoid
\nthe issue altogether, except for its chilling dirge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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