{"id":72,"date":"2008-01-25T03:13:54","date_gmt":"2008-01-25T03:13:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lisahistory.net\/wordpress\/?p=72"},"modified":"2025-08-18T12:44:13","modified_gmt":"2025-08-18T19:44:13","slug":"multiple-intelligences-and-online-participation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lisahistory.net\/wordpress\/2008\/01\/multiple-intelligences-and-online-participation\/","title":{"rendered":"Multiple intelligences and online participation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For their first discussion forum of the semester, I ask students to participate in a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.literacyworks.org\/mi\/assessment\/findyourstrengths.html\" target=\"_blank\">Multiple Intelligences Survey<\/a>, and post their results as they introduce themselves. <img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lisahistory.net\/images\/intelligences.gif?w=648\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"18\" vspace=\"18\"\/><a href=\"https:\/\/lisahistory.net\/wordpress\/?p=15\" target=\"_blank\">Last year<\/a> I thought about tracking things a bit. Instead I filed it away in my brain, and now I&#8217;m seeing things more clearly.<\/p>\n<p>I went into discussion for my four online classes today. In classes where there is a high percentage of math\/logic learners, the entries are short and stilted. Many do not really introduce themselves or respond to other students. In classes where the language and social learners dominate, a real conversation and connections have already begun. There are responses to individuals and friendships forming.\n<\/p>\n<p>I do not think that it is necessary to BE a language or social learner to be successful in an online class, and I&#8217;ve told them that. But I think it&#8217;s helpful to <i>everyone<\/i> to have so many of them in the class. It gives a completely different feel to the class, and I&#8217;ve noticed this the past few semesters. I suspect retention will be higher. I <i>really<\/i> need to keep some numbers on this, but . . . I&#8217;m not a math learner. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For their first discussion forum of the semester, I ask students to participate in a Multiple Intelligences Survey, and post their results as they introduce themselves. Last year I thought about tracking things a bit. Instead I filed it away in my brain, and now I&#8217;m seeing things more clearly. I went into discussion for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[33,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-discussion","category-research"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisahistory.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisahistory.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisahistory.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisahistory.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisahistory.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lisahistory.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9844,"href":"https:\/\/lisahistory.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72\/revisions\/9844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisahistory.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisahistory.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisahistory.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}