Here’s a sneak peek at some online learning support I’m doing with a Tai Chi group in Farmington, Maine. I went up a couple weeks ago to teach an afternoon workshop and this was the practice set we did by the end. The workshop participants also have access to a private Q&A forum, so as they practice between now and the next live training, I can give them feedback. I’ll probably add some new videos as we go to answer any questions that come up.
Can you learn qigong, or any movement art, online? This is a burning question for me right now. My immediate reaction is “NO!”. However, I believe there is a significant role for supplemental online material in the overall learning process, even for movement arts. Here’s why it’s a bad idea to learn movement online: Learning movement is a kinesthetic experience, not a visual one – you have to feel where you are in space and you certainly can’t get that from staring at a screen You need feedback – when you are learning something new, you need refinement and guidance, usually hands-on Some things need to be felt on another person – we get into this all the time with more subtle qigong principles and there is no way around feeling what’s going on in the instructor’s body to learn what you are trying to do in your own
I spent a fair amount of time today upgrading the site and my phone so that I would have better mobile access to the site on my phone and so that you can too! Here’s what I ended up doing: Adding the MobilePress plugin to DanKleiman.com, so that the site adapts to your mobile browser Installing the Wordpress app on my Droid, so that I can update the site from my phone Installing Moodle for Mobiles, which is “
This is a test post from my phone. I just installed a Wordpress app for Android. I’m also working on upgrading the blog and the noodle site for easy mobile access. EDIT: It looks like it picked up the post tags from my phone, but it missed the category. Also have to edit the post author through the site. But you don’t really care about that, do you? ;-)
This post is the second in a series I’m doing on the backstory of how I came to develop a web-based software application called Trainerfly. You can read more about it here. For about a year after I decided I need a way to manage all my clients’ programs, and share information with them privately, I wrestled with finding the right software. I tried private blogs, but at that time it was tons of work to partition information for each client.
