Footprints in Your Online Class
- George Harding
- Adjunct Faculty
- Graduate School of Management and Technology
Published: November-December 2007
Category:
» Online-pedagogy » Classroom-communication
In all of my classes, I advise my students to visit the classroom 3-4 times per week and leave a Footprint/Audit Trail (posting to prove that he/she was there) each time they visit the classroom. In the Fall '07 Semester, one of my creative students took this advice literally. She constructed a .JPEG image of her initials superimposed on the impression of a footprint which she inserts at the bottom of each of her responses.
The moral of this homily is that instructors tend to forget how much they influence the thinking process of their students until something like this occurs. As the Greek philosopher Plutarch wrote: "A mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be ignited".
About the Author(s)
George Gordon Harding teaches ISAS600, Information Systems for Managers, ISAS650, Organizational Transformation, TMAN611, Principles of Technology Management and TMAN621, systems Analysis and Operations Management. Before retiring from industry, he was involved with Manufacturing Engineering, Information Technology and Project Management, working for DuPont Merck Pharmaceuticals, DuPont, General Electric, and Baumritter Corporation. In addition to his industrial career, he has been an Adjunct Professor at various Colleges for over 40 years. He earned his Doctorate in Education from Wilmington University, his MBA from the University of Delaware, and his BS in Management from New England College. Before getting his college degrees, he graduated from the General Electric Apprentice Program as a Journeyman Toolmaker. He also has 9 years of military experience with the Army and the Air Force.
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