After class the other day, I'm not as gung-ho about online tutoring as I was. I guess I never really looked at the whole picture. Technology isn't the greatest. It is really easy to get kicked off of the internet or have your computer freeze on you. When you're face to face, you would never have that problem. Also, I never really thought about it, but you would spend most of the time just typing. You can say something a lot quicker than you can when you type it. So I wonder if the online session is less productive than face to face because the ideas you are wanting to express take a while to get out? Not to mention, you can take things the wrong way when you are reading text online because you don't have the sound of the voice and physical clues to tell you when the person is joking. Online tutoring leaves both the tutor and the tutee more open to misinterpreting something that someone says. I still think that online tutoring can be useful to those who need a quick fix or for those who are too shy to do it in person. I would be interested in actually doing online tutoring just to see what it's really like.
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