Return of the blog Tuesday, October 7th, 2008
This blog is fixed and I will begin using it to stay connected to students and the tight little blogospehre they have created. I have felt out of the loop in recent weeks. Partly because my teaching at Fraser International College has been sucking any pedagogical energy from me and partly because I have not been using web2.0 to stay connected — not using it to its full advantage. Guess what, sending out emails is so web 1.0 and it just does not work. I need constant feedback to keep up my energy for this course (by far my favorite) and I’m just not getting it. No fault of my students thats for sure.
And the grades. I still have not fixed the grades and I can’t figure out what is wrong, but I have students thinking they are getting Fs when I give them As. That can’t be helping. I will get that fixed.
So I have to work on a way to get feedback to students and encourage them to continue. Because I am really happy with the work they have been doing. It’s a small group of active students but they seem to be embacing (with some caution) the whole 2.0 mindset.
