Thread by @karenraycosta

Was gonna reply but thought maybe a thread on this question of using face-to-face to describe land-based courses...thanks for nudging me down the rabbit hole, @vijisathy.

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So to answer your question, Viji, I think sync online spaces are most obviously f2f. But I'm also now thinking that through tools like @voicethread and @Flipgrid, we can also be f2f with our online students asynchronously.

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Now here I go down the rabbit hole. I wonder if we take the phrase face-to-face too literally. Aren't we really talking about seeing our students as they are, and revealing ourselves to our students? #ConnectedTeaching and #HumanizingOL come to mind here.

I guess I am realizing that I don't literally need to see a student's face to truly see them. There are many faces #onhere I've never seen, but I feel like I've seen you. I think some of you have seen me.

As a neurodiverse learner, I did not feel seen in 90% of my "face-to-face" courses. I have felt very seen in most of my online courses.

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I'm also thinking, as always, of @LauraIRendon's validation theory. "I see you. You can do this. You belong here. I'm here with you." I do this with my online students all the time without ever seeing some of their faces.

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Per usual, I have more questions than answers, but I do sometimes wonder if we need new words to capture some of these new worlds and to create new ones.

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