When delivering Web-based activities we have greater choice and responsibility as well as a more powerful tool to support individualized lifelong learning. By making our vision overt to ourselves and our students, we make its realization more likely. Time Be Creative, but Realistic The best month-long unit makes the worst week's lesson plan. Rather than see time as the teacher's nemesis, we could apply an analogy from Robert Frost. He said that writing poetry without meter was like playing tennis without a net.
Time constraints make curriculum design and delivery a creative challenge.
You may see students once a day or all day. They may come to you to learn one subject or a full curriculum. Perhaps you exercise some control over the schedule or you might have to hold your spot on the assembly line. We can only play the game with the equipment and conditions available or we're deuced before we start. When it comes to implementation of Web-based activities, we face one of the greatest timesucks known to humankind, so we need to factor in time for the unexpected as well as forays into experimentation.