Brilliance!

I am taking an online class this summer for my Masters degree called Organization and Supervision of Literacy Instruction: Coaching for change with my great friend Kara. Most of the class consists of independent reading, reflection, and asking/answering questions. We both participated in our first synchronous session through ellumniate on Wednesday. At first, we were both unimpressed with the structure because our teachers mentioned that this session was mainly for office hours and no actual lecture would be given. Apparently every student in our class (6 or 7) were unimpressed with this superficial use of time. All of us began engaging in conversation, thoughts, impressions, and questions we had while reading the text. This was mostly done through typing text on the screen because not many of us had access to microphones. It was extremely easy to get bogged down and confused by the many comments flashing across the screen. It was maddening at times knowing that I was about to make a brilliant comment and by the time I got it typed on the screen what I was responding to was 6 entries higher. Kara and I found it difficult to wallow through the mundane and somewhat unrelated comments boasting back and forth as we were all out to impress our teachers by showing that we had completed our readings and were all trying to earn our "A." In fact, the teachers said very little in this conversation.

However, my moment of brilliance finally came. Kara asked a question about brain development being physiologically different across races as brought up in the power point lecture we were to read on our own. I promptly answered her question (through type although she was in the same room as I), and I am the only person who earned the brilliant mark of applause.
(On the screen, anyone can applaud another person if they agree with their comment). Not only that, but another person responded mentioning that my comment is what they were trying to say only I made it sound more brilliant. This is actually an important skill when you are trying to impress the teacher you've never met face to face. I'm not meaning to brag or anything, but I will close with the final quote I made before logging off from our class discussion (Kara can attest to this). further explanation of quote and context will be granted upon request.

"I know I haven't been teaching for very long, but I pretty much know everything."