The Overwhelming Silence

I am sitting here in technology classroom NC 4 at the University of St. Joseph's reading the blogs of other colleagues and responding to some of their posts. Two things then strike me as incredibly odd. The first is that the classroom of sixteen adults is eerily silent as if it were empty. The other is that in the midst of this quiet we are all "speaking" with one another in the twenty first century sense of the word as each of us is reading the posted thoughts and insights of one another while at the same time responding to each. There is a high level of communication taking place in this space with no vocalization. Wow, this is amazing.