Idea: Open Classes To Everyone All The Time

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Marcus W Marcus
Teacher

I would like to have my classroom open 24/7 for everyone. This can be beneficial for many reasons.

1) My students can meet at a central location when I am not around. If they are absent one week, they can meet in the classroom. Maybe files can’t be stored on eduFire’s servers, but perhaps we could have a list of links to where teachers could store files.

2) If someone sees my class and wants to join, I don’t want them to have to wait for tomorrow in order to join. I would rather they come late, meet them, and then they can simply sit back while I finish the class. If it is more free form, then they can participate right away. I am used to students coming so late, they only have 10 minutes. 10 minutes are better than 0, and if they are new I can find out their level so next class I will be more prepared to teach them.

3. I can be in a classroom preparing, and if a student sees I am in, they can treat it like office hours. Perhaps, they have some questions since last lesson and they don’t want to wait until next class.

I don’t want to commit myself during the week, but if I have 30 minutes here, 15 there, I might just pop in to see who needs a quick question answered.

Posted: over 2 years ago


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Jason Scamahorn
there is so much, so wrong, with what you are insinuating... it litterally cuts against the grain... and part of it just makes no sense whatsoever, suggesting having a class log in available an hour early would be ok, the program with adobe doesn't cut you off at exactly the time... though, if students are moving from one class to the next, they usually are one or two minutes behind, that is why some teachers pay attention to the class time slot, and if needed extend it for 'just in case' :P say everyone showed up 5 minutes late, now they can know that that 30 minute class has an hour set aside, i know of one teacher who would set up an hour class and actually only be there for 20 minutes!
Jason Scamahorn
also, do you have any idea how much bandwidth that would cost the site -.-;

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