1.1.1 Delineation Between Synchronous and Asynchronous Content Delivery
Amazingly, there are more similarities in the types of content delivery than dissimilarities. Perhaps this is due to the unique ability of people skilled in the use of digital technology to convert synchronous delivery to asynchronous delivery. For example, one teacher in my school regularly records her lectures to her first class in order to play them to her subsequent classes in order to maintain consistency in the message. The ten-minute lectures cover a small amount of material in great detail, and she is able to upload them to her website for students to review. By doing this, she is able to use 10 minutes in class for the subsequent classes to work individually with students who need such attention.
Via digital technologies, a video conference or a lecture can become a vodcast that is available as an archived artifact. I have recorded students participating in a google doc Venn Diagram activity. The event for the 4 people involved, was synchronous. For the classes of students who watched the screencast that I made, it was asynchronous.
Who knew that digital technologies would be so useful in linking people and purposes despite the inability to gather at the same time?
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