Comments on: Today’s Gulf News http://www.informl.com/2004/09/13/todays-gulf-news/ from Jay Cross and Internet Time Group Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:02:33 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: jay http://www.informl.com/2004/09/13/todays-gulf-news/comment-page-1/#comment-38 jay Sun, 03 Oct 2004 05:13:00 +0000 http://internettime.com/wordpress2/?p=119#comment-38 Ironic, but I'm responding to your comment from Cambridge, Massachusetts, where I'm attending a reunion. Were it not for a couple of wonderful universities I was privileged to attend, my life would be tedious and dull. College is a delightful way to become socialized. I deal mainly with corporate culture. Ironic, but I’m responding to your comment from Cambridge, Massachusetts, where I’m attending a reunion. Were it not for a couple of wonderful universities I was privileged to attend, my life would be tedious and dull. College is a delightful way to become socialized. I deal mainly with corporate culture.

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.informl.com/2004/09/13/todays-gulf-news/comment-page-1/#comment-37 Anonymous Sat, 02 Oct 2004 23:11:00 +0000 http://internettime.com/wordpress2/?p=119#comment-37 E-learning can be a wonderful option but don't discount the benefit of going away to college. That way you have your first experience at being on your own but with a safety net. It may be your first or only time mixing with so many people different from yourself. How else do you learn to express yourself and interact directly with others in an atmosphere so rich with learning. I am aware that not everyone has a brick & morter available to them, but I think we need to have that as a foundation. Lectures are a waste for me. I don't learn much that way, but discussions teach you more than you might realize at the time. Much is learned from body language and voice inflection, also from gauging crowd response. Perhaps President Bush should have spent more of his formative years in discussion groups. Where is the spell check? Years of online comments at work that relied on leaving out vowels and other abbreviations has lead to a dearth of spelling skills. dlu@cox.net E-learning can be a wonderful option but don’t discount the benefit of going away to college. That way you have your first experience at being on your own but with a safety net. It may be your first or only time mixing with so many people different from yourself. How else do you learn to express yourself and interact directly with others in an atmosphere so rich with learning. I am aware that not everyone has a brick & morter available to them, but I think we need to have that as a foundation.

Lectures are a waste for me. I don’t learn much that way, but discussions teach you more than you might realize at the time. Much is learned from body language and voice inflection, also from gauging crowd response. Perhaps President Bush should have spent more of his formative years in discussion groups.

Where is the spell check? Years of online comments at work that relied on leaving out vowels and other abbreviations has lead to a dearth of spelling skills.

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