I think I mentioned there are eight of us graduate students going to Beijing; ALL female! and somewhere down the road, we got the title of "Beijing Babes"! Not much of a professional title to be known as at a conference; just an inside joke, I guess. And then there's Dr. Z (short for Zeitz), one of the UNI faculty accompanying and guiding us through the whole process, besides our course instructor. By the way, if you already don't know this, he's got a cool educational blog at drzreflects if you're into watching fun videos and reading amazing things about education and technology.
Since this course is online, I actually haven't met any of the students in person yet , but we have had many means of communication so far. Besides our good old elearning tool, we also have had meetings through Adobe Connect, and Skype, and we have been sharing our thoughts and documents through different Google Docs and a wiki...
Yeah, I know! This bunch is too cool to use a regular phone!
We're almost ready to go and exited to share our experience Live, and connect to our students and/or families from Beijing. Some tools such as facebook, and google doc are actually blocked by the government, but I learned about a trick_or a new tool_ called VPN, virtual personal network! This system allows you to pay and use the blocked features, and the price is very reasonable.
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