Ethics.com: That's the title of an honors seminar a colleague and I are leading this semester. To help our students grapple with some of the ethical choices posed in online communication, I convinced my co-teacher we should assign our students to create and maintain blogs, rather than write traditional essays and papers. So, in the spirit of the class, here I am -- creating my own blog.
But what in the world am I going to write about?
I'm not entirely sure, but I've decided to call whatever this turns out to be my "mental garden." That's because, although I've been a college professor for more than 20 years, I'm still a farmer's daughter at heart. My favorite metaphors are always those that deal with growth.
So here's the first seed of an idea: Teachers shouldn't give students assignments they wouldn't attempt themselves. ... Even if that means creating a blog and entering a part of the online world I'm not sure I want to join.
It's a tiny seed, by the way. All I did was find a blogging program, accept all its defaults, write a few words and click a few choices. This is a tiny garden plot so far.
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What's the old proverb? ... "Grow where you are planted." So here we are, both daughters of farmers, moving (growing) out of our comfort zones, learning more than we are teaching! What a way to GrOw.
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