Paul OConnell

I have found that online learning is similar in many ways to actual classroom learning. There are many benefits as well as some drwabacks to online learning. I find it hard to stay engaged and follow up on the discussions that are happening over a period of time. I have to find a way to be more scheduled and regular with the times I am participating. I like that I can participate at virtually anytime I choose though. 

I find that power point presentations followed by one short 3-6 minute you tube video the day after demonstrating a cooking technique, helps to refresh and reinforce the previous days demo.

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Mom Poem by Bill O’Connell 2013

AT THE COTTAGE IN TRURO

I ask my aging mother

“Do you fear death?”

Her lip quivers, “That’s

A silly question.”

I don’t ask her what she thinks

Is on the other side.

My sisters ask her: how come

You and Dad never fought?

“Because,” she says, “we never

discussed anything.”

I try to imagine that—

how much was undiscussed.

“Oh Billy,” she says, “stop putting me

in your poems!” “I can’t help it,”

I say, “you’re so funny.”

The grandkids argue about

Pepsi, Coke,… >>>