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Debonair is an English-language monthly magazine published by the Be Debonair Foundation.[1][failed verification] It is one of India's most popular entertainment magazines and includes news, interviews, photos, videos, reviews, events, and style. Previously Debonair was an Indian monthly men's magazine, originally modeled after Playboy.[2]
Debonair was founded in 1973[3][4] and its first issue was published in April 1974.[5] The founder was Susheel Somani[3] and the founding company was G. Claridge Printing Press, owned by Somani.[5]
The magazine, best known for its topless female centerfolds, was first edited by Ashok Row Kavi and Anthony Van Braband.[6] Vinod Mehta also worked as the editor of the magazine.[4] It was published on a monthly basis.[3] Under the editor Derek Bose, Debonair was reformatted to remove nudity and target a younger demographic in 2005.
Debonair has also featured a number of Indian film actresses on its cover when they were just beginning their careers. This includes Juhi Chawla and Madhuri Dixit, photographed by the photographer Gautam Rajadhyaksha.[7][8]
And the salient fact about The Reviewer is that it was a successful party. It printed distinguished work of many well-known authors, and it introduced to a small but influential group a number of writers who have since become famous. To what extent it was the cause, concomitant, or result of what has since become known as the Southern Literary Renaissance is a question for speculation. I would like to believe that The Reviewer, by reason of its preeminently Southern manner, was able to develop talent in the South that might not have been susceptible to an alien tutelage. Certainly the letters of Francis Newman and Julia Peterkin to Miss Clark show a profound appreciation not only for what the magazine was doing but also for the way in which it was being done. Whether or not there is ever a final judgment in the matter, the fact remains that The Reviewer aided and abetted in the establishment of several Southern literary reputations, and coincided in its life with an increase of respect for Southern writers that has since verged on adulation.
As resources for training and education collapse (time, budget, personnel), e-educators hunt for new efficiencies and shortcuts. However, we don't spend as much time as I think we should thinking about what we personally should be doing differently.
More than 40 years ago, I attended the first session of my first college class in education. The instructor, June Edson, changed my life and set me on a path of discovery and service. I still remember, almost verbatim, her opening remarks.
Writers learn that they reveal themselves on the page in the same way that actors reveal themselves on the stage. The choices I make in the words I use, the activities I initiate, and even the software platforms I prefer when I design virtual classrooms tell the participants something about me.
In other words, do I view the virtual classroom as a collection of transactions with human beings or as colored dots on a sight chart? I think that the indifferent, cynical, and apathetic online instructor fools no one, and his or her posturing leads to the same attitudes in the students.
Is the Way You Know Best the Easy Way Out?
Like yourself, I am a product of the limits of my experience and education, as well as the choices I make as an educator. I have developed antipathies to certain practices in the e-classroom, based on emotional reactions rather than more logical research and experimentation. I carefully cherry-pick studies to promote practices I already believe are right, rather than try to expand my horizons.
My main problem is that I have been successful. Most of my students like me. I received very good evaluations as a college instructor, and I tend to be asked back as a management consultant and trainer. Online, my self-paced and facilitated programs are well-received.
Success easily leads to smugness. I know The Way, even though most of what I rely on to justify my online behaviors are anecdotal reports that cater to my biases. Eventually (and this is something I teach and conveniently ignore), what starts out as a process of discovery and growth turns to stone. It is the 21st century version of the notorious grade school teachers from 50 years ago who would mimeograph their handouts and tests from the same stencils for decades. You knew from your older siblings and even your parents that each week of world history or science would look the same as it did years before.
My personal experience is that the field of e-learning is dominated by smart, impatient people who live by the mantra of "perfect, instantly, free." They solve educational problems with more bandwidth and better software. However, they will sometimes shy away from activities that require them to fail repeatedly before they achieve their goals, which is more like how many of their online students experience life.
I need to seek out virtual and physical experiences that are hard, where I won't automatically build on previous success, and where I don't have the vocabulary and context to be the smartest kid in class. I need to surprise my brain and body so that when I return to my virtual classroom, I have more empathy with students who struggle with things I find easy.
To this end, I have taking drawing classes (I was the worst student by a mile), run for public office (I lost), managed the tech board for a theater company (where I turned out the lights during the climax of a mime's performance), became a radio talk show host (I was fired three times), debated a debonair politician in front of his supporters, planted gardens (most of the plants died in the first five years), and most recently, struggled to master ideas from books that are really, really, really hard. At least, they are hard for me.
I also am breaking out of the "reliable box" when it comes to my teaching online and trying some methods that I rejected years ago. And I am seeking out people who are very different from me from whom to learn.
About the Author
Pat Wagner and her husband Leif Smith own Pattern Research, Inc., a 35-year-old research and training business headquartered in Denver. They specialize in working for innovators in the public, private, and nonprofit sector. Most of Pat's focus as a management consultant and trainer (both online and face-to-face) is on people who work for libraries, higher education, local government, and nonprofit organizations. She is also the library relations associate and a subject matter expert for the University of North Texas LE@D (Lifelong Education @ Desktop) program. She makes a lot of mistakes every day.
Otherwise, thank for you for this excellent article - it is something I can take back and refer my colleagues to in order they can better understand what my role is. Mon, 05 Jul 2010
Post by Barb KlassenYou made me laugh. You made me learn. God I love finding ah ha moments!! Thankyou! I am a teacher with 25 years behind her of experience who is jumping into technology with both feet. This whole new arena is hard for me. Yes I can email, wave, surf, google but finding worthwhile technologies to inspire my students now that is hard for me. By the way, I have no idea what HTML syntax is so I may have used it here. Anyways, many thanks from up here in Canada. Barb To leave a comment you must sign in.
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