Online Learning Communities: For Visual Learners

Two pictures: The first one is my husband, Jeff, and me last January in Boulder. You can see our smiles, the twinkle in our eyes. Something of our personality shows through.

The second one is my husband in the Minneapolis airport on the way home from Boulder. This image is "flat," even though I like its stark beauty [I enhanced it with Photoshop, taking out extraneous details and darkening the sillouette]. You can't see the twinkle in Jeff's eyes or anything about his personality, age, style. This is how I feel about the people in the online learning community. We are engaged with other in an intellectual, cerebral, and very limited way. We are sillouettes to each other, flat.