| | ET&S [3 (3)] - The Body Matrix: A Phenomenological Exploration of Student Bodies On-line (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05) |
 | | The article explores student experiences of their bodies in an asynchronous on-line learning environment, web-based computer conference (WCC), using hermeneutic phenomenology as a research method. Students in the study experience their bodies to be both here, seated in front of their computers, and there, on-line. |
 | | The language they use to describe their experience of body includes metaphors around sound, vision, and touch. The sensual language raises pedagogical questions to be considered in on-line courses. A narrative technique is offered as one strategy to address some of the pedagogical questions raised throughout the article. |
 | | Students describe their experience of visually taking in information using three visual terms—see, look, and watch. Each suggests a different level of focus and attention. To see is not only a way to receive information through my eyes, it also implies the sense-making process that occurs after the reception of the information—I understand. |
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