First impression: As I "walked into the classroom" sort to speak, I thought to myself, clean and very "Buddhism" like :-)
My Facebook profile picture finds another place to reside. I uploaded my picture, added a couple of my interests - for a moment, I thought I am the most boring person in the world - what do I like to do during my spare time.. Or a better question is, when will be my spare time.. Well trained through the education system, however, I managed to put up something semi interesting
A quick browse of the participants. Many have also uploaded their pictures and added their interests. First impression: a lot of artists, musicians, writter, philospher "kind of people" Cool...I never got to be in a "flock" with cool people. Thanks to this class, now I am the "in" crowd! That is what I am talking about!!!
One thing I noticed - there is a link on the upper left-hand side of each page that takes us directly back to the home of the certificate program. It reads "Learning Together" - that is a great spirit of community building
One thing I do not personally like is the very strict follow-me-step1-step2 approach. It is too restrict for me as I would prefer a little more flexibility in receiving information and acting on it. However, I can see this also be a great scaffolding approach to ease people into the online environment and the community.
Remember from my Vipassana retreat where I was saying to a college kid - there is only one "first-time experience." I will never have a "first time" when I return. As young as she was, she said something so insightful to me that I still remember to this day, "but there is always the first second-time, and the first third-time" So I am expecting my new "first time" experience on every encounter of this class!
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