tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1624205718121734803.post4289665775813382680..comments2024-01-25T10:27:15.895-05:00Comments on Spring 2021 Online Course Diary: Introduction to the Pandemic SemesterLaura Gibbshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04994025992373244815noreply@blogger.comBlogger14125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1624205718121734803.post-7866450318545949082020-10-06T16:21:10.102-04:002020-10-06T16:21:10.102-04:00Hi Laura, are you going to reveal which student yo...Hi Laura, are you going to reveal which student you played as in our course? I'm so curious! This class is awesome especially during a pandemic because I do most work from the comfort of couch or bed. Which I feel like gives me the best creative vibes! Today (oct 6th) we got the email regarding online class only, after Thanksgiving:(. I think we all saw this coming but the fact it's actually happening is upsetting! gabby taylorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13134135819513143918noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1624205718121734803.post-46316880071486034042020-10-02T00:48:14.268-04:002020-10-02T00:48:14.268-04:00Hi Laura!
I had no idea you enrolled as a student...Hi Laura!<br /><br />I had no idea you enrolled as a student in your own class. Haha what a twist, "she lives among us!!". I don't think I've ever read one of your stories, so I'm excited to see how you approach story retelling. Also, I'm going to check out your "Tiny Tales: Teaching Guide". I want to teach HS students, so I bet I can adapt some of your ideas to work for them. I still have yet to write a microfiction, but I'll try to give it a shot this semester! Graycehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12917371539269648575noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1624205718121734803.post-65751244912219727962020-10-01T12:39:18.963-04:002020-10-01T12:39:18.963-04:00Hi Laura! I know everyone has said it, but it real...Hi Laura! I know everyone has said it, but it really is awesome how you treat yourself like a student in this class. It has been awesome getting to learn more about you, and your incredible writing background. I love reading about your stories and books, and I appreciate how understanding and adaptive you are with this weird semester and time. megan szymanskihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17637621130189590842noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1624205718121734803.post-30589634802317738992020-09-27T20:57:54.175-04:002020-09-27T20:57:54.175-04:00I did not! This is new and very eye-opening to me....I did not! This is new and very eye-opening to me. I've already played some of your 100 word stories, and your voice is very soothing and my youngest especially enjoys it. Do you feel your stories of folk tales still fit in the more modern setting of 2020? Or do they need to be tweaked to fit recent social points of interest?haranahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09288193020293075155noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1624205718121734803.post-90729864385124339712020-09-24T12:01:30.624-04:002020-09-24T12:01:30.624-04:00Hi Laura! I love how you enroll yourself as a stud...Hi Laura! I love how you enroll yourself as a student and participate alongside us. You have been such a great communicator and have adapted your class so well to this hectic and uncertain time. Your 100-word stories have been so fun to read and they have really pushed me to try doing them each week for the stories I have read. I have truly enjoyed all the stories this semester and I am loving your class!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1624205718121734803.post-58229163226513292022020-09-21T11:47:31.484-04:002020-09-21T11:47:31.484-04:00Hi Laura! I think it so so refreshing how open and...Hi Laura! I think it so so refreshing how open and communicative you are with your students from the get-go! I love writing but have a hard time sitting down and doing it, and your 100 word stories have inspired me to try that and see where I go from there! I'm really excited about taking this class this semester and learning more about mythology and writing!Nataliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11477760929691612645noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1624205718121734803.post-14859694621952783872020-09-21T03:09:45.574-04:002020-09-21T03:09:45.574-04:00Hello Laura, I really enjoy how open minded and up...Hello Laura, I really enjoy how open minded and upbeat you are in this course with us hectic students. I have never met a teacher that inserts him or herself as a student. This is such a unique trait that I know your students appreciate you for. I was also very shocked to find out that you liked to listen to books rather than read. I hated reading growing up, so I found it a lot easier to listen to audiobooks. This eventually grew into a habit, where now I listen to audiobooks often. Also side note... I am looking foward to more 100 word short stories this semester. PBhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06153023883422129837noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1624205718121734803.post-33719180366289252312020-09-20T11:58:54.501-04:002020-09-20T11:58:54.501-04:00Hello,
I love the whole 100 word story thing you ...Hello,<br /><br />I love the whole 100 word story thing you have been doing because not only are they easy to read, but they highlight the most interesting information and are always entertaining to read. Also, I am very impressed that you have been working at OU literally since I was born. That is so cool to me and it really says a lot about you because you have been so successful for so long. You really are the most caring professor I have ever had and you are so passionate about what you do. I am looking forward to the rest of this semester and hope I can become a better writer!Robbie Johnsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15798035996586567612noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1624205718121734803.post-24224729146570065572020-09-14T02:22:39.288-04:002020-09-14T02:22:39.288-04:00Hi Laura! I really love the recognition of how dif...Hi Laura! I really love the recognition of how different the world is right now. It feels like some of my professors are hoping that, by ignoring what's going on, it will somehow make it easier. It just generally makes life harder when everyone's stress levels are automatically higher because of the pandemic.<br />I find it so interesting that you prefer to listen to books than read them! I love a good audiobook, but there's really nothing like sitting down and reading, for me. My favorite audiobooks are the dramatizations. I still listen to some to fall asleep at night if I'm struggling to and, after about six years of listening to The Horse and His Boy for probably an average of once a week or every two weeks, I have almost the entire thing memorized!Leah Pomerantzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01400716432467101897noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1624205718121734803.post-58051641985812546272020-09-14T00:59:59.620-04:002020-09-14T00:59:59.620-04:00Hi Laura, I've never had a professor who also ...Hi Laura, I've never had a professor who also participates in the class as a student too. So it was cool to find out that you did. I definitely think this class does relieve stress from my other harder science classes. I'll definitely have to look into the 100 word stories you wrote over the summer. I read the Tug of War one from your microfiction and enjoyed it. I think it would be actually difficult for me to write a 100 word story. I tend to ramble a lot and find it hard to condense what I'm trying to say. On my very first story I wrote for this class, it went up to 1500 words! So i had to go back and cut out some stuff because the max was 1000 words. Helen Doanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02224304003470066506noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1624205718121734803.post-5260729770902791232020-09-07T00:27:07.992-04:002020-09-07T00:27:07.992-04:00Hello Laura,
Thanks so much for giving us this fan...Hello Laura,<br />Thanks so much for giving us this fantastic course! I have grown up hearing stories of India as a child, but it's been so long (with all the high school and college craziness) since I have been able to sit back and just read stories. It brings back so many memories for me, and I especially love the freedom to retell stories in my own way. I think writing 100-word stories sound really fun, I will definitely check out your audiobooks! I can't even imagine what the online classes would have been like in 2002; I bet the resources would be drastically different from what we have available to us today!Anusha Gopalamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06110117557176527104noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1624205718121734803.post-19852893043979110742020-08-30T15:41:27.617-04:002020-08-30T15:41:27.617-04:00Hello!
First off, I think it is SO cool that you...Hello! <br /><br />First off, I think it is SO cool that you enroll yourself as a student in the class to interact on a whole new level. That immediately makes your students respect and appreciate you before we even interact! I love how interactive and fun your class is so far - all of the assignments are fun and low-stress, which makes me enjoy them more and work harder! I am really curious about the microfiction. It was a great idea to include audio versions, as I loooove podcasts and I will listen to your stories while I walk around campus! Rachel Fisherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16704488671532896886noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1624205718121734803.post-33007085654177898252020-08-25T17:35:59.376-04:002020-08-25T17:35:59.376-04:00Oh, yay for children and reading! There are so man...Oh, yay for children and reading! There are so many great audiobooks for children... do you know about <strong><a href="https://librivox.org/search?primary_key=0&search_category=genre&search_page=1&search_form=get_results" rel="nofollow">LibriVox.org link</a></strong>? They have lots of children's audio books, and some of them are recorded by children, which is very sweet to hear if you find one of those. Maybe you can do a project for class writing stories for your little one! And doing the audio is easy: I'm hoping people in class this semester will want to try putting audio in their blogs; that's why I'm putting a little audio story in the announcements each day, hoping to inspire people! :-)<br />Laura Gibbshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04994025992373244815noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1624205718121734803.post-38049738321048989962020-08-25T17:17:04.246-04:002020-08-25T17:17:04.246-04:00Making audio books of short stories sounds so fun!...Making audio books of short stories sounds so fun! With the libraries closed around here, I'm going to have my three-year-old listen to 'The Lion and the Rabbit.' It'll be like he's being read to at the library. Have you tried writing your own stories and sending it to anthologies?haranahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09288193020293075155noreply@blogger.com