Your Classroom Anywhere Contest!

WIN A $100 GIFT CARD IN OUR
"Your Classroom Anywhere Contest,"

Here's How:

Tell us about your most unique,interesting or unusual place where you would learn while online, for instance, running on a treadmill listening to a course podcast. Not an online student? Use your imagination, where would you experience online learning? Enter and win one of three $100 gift cards! (Please keep it appropriate we are an educational institution.)

HOW TO ENTER:
(Choose one option)

1. Leave your comment on this contest post describing where you would take advantage of "Your Classroom Anywhere."

2. Leave a similar comment on Twitter. To do this simply send a tweet which begins with @drexelonline and contains your entry.

CONTEST RULES:
You can enter using both methods (either commenting on this post or via Twitter) however, all entries are only eligible to win one of the $100 gift cards. Duplicate entries will be discarded and once a winner from one section is chosen their name will be withdrawn from the second prize selection. Your comments MUST MEET THE ABOVE STATED CRITERIA. Comments like “Please enter me in the contest” will be disregarded.

The contest begins January 14th,2009 and all entries received before 12:00pm EST on February 15th, 2009 will be eligible to win one of the three gift cards.

If submitting a comment on the blog post, be sure to use an email address where we can reach you. Blog entrant contest winners will be notified by e-mail. Twitter entrant contest winners will be notified via a message to their Twitter account.

BUT WAIT! What If I Don’t Have a Twitter account? How Do I Get One?

Here are the steps required to sign up for a Twitter account and cast your entry to be eligible for one of the three $100 gift certificate:

1. Head over to Twitter.com and click on the Join link in the top right corner. Fill in your profile details (you can flesh it out later if you like) and complete the account creation.

2. Next head over to the Drexel Online profile and follow us by visiting http://www.twitter.com/drexelonline and clicking on the large button the reads “Follow”

3. Click on the Home button near the top right of your screen and then make an update which begins with @drexelonline followed by your short description of where you learn as an online learner.

4. Once you have completed your message (140 characters max) click on the large button that says “Update.”

5. Voila you have submitted your entry!

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Comments

[Keith Hobin]

If I could learn anywhere, I would have to say that the most unusual place where you could learn while online, would be at $30,000 in the air while flying cross country. This would actually be really cool because normally airplane flights are wasted downtime, but now with airlines like Virgin America, Delta, and United offing in-flight wi-fi, anything is possible (except skype,they are blocking that and other VoIP applications so that you don't annoy the rest of the plane, talking on your "phone" for the entire flight, and then you also still have to use their expensive handsets)

[Diane]

The beauty of distance or online learning is the classroom is available wherever and whenever the student has access to the internet. For instance, as a former online student, numerous times, I attended class in various airports and hotel rooms throughout North America and Canada while traveling for business. Additionally, I attended class while enjoying my sundrenched patio, and in the convenience of my home. Although one may not consider airports, hotels, and my home unique, interesting or unusual, the ability to learn on demand wherever I choose is an experience, which is unique, interesting and unusual. For instance, the online classroom experience provides one access to learning 24-hours a day additionally; the experience in and of itself is unique in that it is light years away from when I first attended a brick and mortar college in the seventies.

[Ashley Peskoe]

I think an unusual place where you could take advantage of online learning would be hunting in the woods in a deer stand. Many times you sit out there for hours with nothing to do while waiting for a deer. With online capabilities via cell phones and satellite wi-fi, you can get online anywhere, including the middle of the woods. If I were an online student I could sit out in the middle of the woods in my deer stand in Georgia, headphones on with e-learning, all while hunting at the same time.

[Earlene Dana Brown]

At Starbucks while drinking a soy pumpkin latte with no whipped cream

[Erica Siate]

I would study on my nordic track where I spend 30 minutes a day and stare at pictures of Montana.

[Erika Schumann]

I would study on a hammock on the beach in Aruba while nursing a hangover, before my jet skiing lesson.

[Jodi Silverman]

I would study on my couch or sitting outside in warm sunny weather.