Im Your Teacher Not Your Internet Service Provider

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It’s A Hard Knock Life “If you're going through hell, keep going!” Winston Churchill. This quote says a lot about the article “I’m Your Teacher, Not Your Internet-Service Provider” by author Ellen Laird. Laird is a teacher who works both online and also in the classroom. She tells us how the two experiences differ and why her online experience has been downloaded the wrong class all of a sudden. Lairds tone seems to change from the beginning to the end of the story.at first she lets us know that she loved her online class. But now her tone breaches the point right before insanity! Now she could run and jump off a bridge rather than teach her online class. The relief she gets from her classroom setting is far from what the students online give her. In the beginning of the article laird starts out by saying “The honey moon is over.” Laird is trying to paint a portrait that she used to love to be an online teacher. She could meet new students from everywhere and post simple assignments and her day would go by smoothly. But now this seasoned online teacher is feeling the stress of her online composition class. In The Classroom Laird gets to see her students and her students get to see her. They can react to the way she is feeling and they can get an answer to a question right there. They get to form a closer bond with her and get a lot of 1 on 1 time with her. Her online class never understands when she is sick or she takes a vacation day from school. They email her questions about the syllabus and some of the assignments in the class room and it take time for her to email them back and sometimes they just don’t understand that the online teacher is not feeling well or out of office for today. In the classroom students can’t choose what they want to do. If a teacher hands out a paper a week in advance, she expects you to have that paper typed and ready to

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