<p>I thought you would want to know about this. It seems to me, if she’s going to spend three years and $18K, she should learn to play a real guitar, but whatever.
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<p>Driver:
ROTFL! This goes together with Virtual PE, mentioned in an article in today’s NYT.</p>
<p>theres a championship ?</p>
<p>Call me a crotchety old purist, but I think air guitar, properly done, must be true air, i.e., sans those silly inflatable things.</p>
<p>EK, did you notice that there’s now Mosh Studies?
Marite, would love to see the Virtual PE article.</p>
<p>I just emailed it to my guitar-playing S. He’s been thinking about whether or not to go to grad school, and if so, for what.</p>
<p>Driver:</p>
<p>I can’t link to the NYT, but the title is:
“Online classes offer virtual dissection, but gym still takes sweat.”
The opening paragraph is:
“The nation’s public schools are rushing to reconfigure scores of traditional courses from basic composition to calculus so students can take them over the Internet. One of the unlikely new offerings in this vast experiment is online gym.”
'Sounds like an oxymoron? Not in Minneapolis, where a physical education course joined the school district’s growing online catalog int he spring and already has a waiting list…
The course allows students to meet requirements by exercising how they want, when they want. They are required to work out hard for 30 minutes four times a week and report to their teachers by em-mail. Parents must certify that the students did the workouts."</p>
<p>Serious stuff indeed. Apparently it has been offered by Florida Virtual School since 1997.</p>