The first topic concerning online classroom writing is observing the pros and cons. I feel that there are a lot of negative as well as positive views with online classes. One of the pros to an online classroom is to have the opportunity to show how responsible you are by demonstrating self-motivation. The other pro is that you can write out your opinion or thought without interruptions that you would normally get in a real classroom.
For the cons, I think that most people feel that virtual learning is too easy and takes away the human factor of education. I disagree because we rely on human facial features too much for an answer and sometimes we need to have less human contact to reveal our most human side which is the writer in all of us. We tend to write out our personal views or observations by means of a journal or poetry giving us an honest view of that individual.
Keeping that in mind I believe that online writing gives a student communicative freedom they normally would not have in a real classroom. Being able to complete a thought as mentioned previously is the most important freedom that is beneficial to everyone. In a regular classroom, have you ever needed to say something and someone always interrupts you? It could be the most revealing idea and someone just trashed it with their rudeness. Online classes give everyone equal opportunity to have an individual input which I believe allows us to become better writers.
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We're all writers in the online classroom. Those who excel in science and math (who may have barely passed English class) must still write in e-classes, more than traditional classes require. It was probably not an English major who invented txt msg. With this, who groans and deeply sighs louder than the men of letters!
Reading is also difficult with a screen, as opposed to a real book. An old book is auctioned off for thousands, if not millions of dollars. An old computer is tossed in with the trash. A bad book is at least tossed onto a bon fire in the town square. A bad computer knows no such passion, but is returned for refund.
If we all become writers, and therefore necessarily readers, who stands guard over the information let loose into the wind? At least in traditional classrooms there were committees of teachers, parents, school boards, historians and others held accountable for what little Tommy and Susie were to view, to learn, and to hold dear, to pass the approved information to their children someday. With the online classroom, everybody is writing, nobody is accountable, and Tommy and Susie still believe everything they see in print.
To get a book published, one must jump through certain hoops, as the reputation of the publishing house is at stake. To get a website "out there", the hoops are gone, and reputations are insignificant. In a study of Benjamin Franklin one day, I tried to learn where he was in his family tree. One website placed him tenth out of fifteen children. Another placed him at fifteen out of eighteen. Which is correct? The new Tommy and Susie say, "It doesn't matter". If we're all writers, the skill is suspect. Visit the library - because it does matter.
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