I have set up my class blog to hopefully be a place my students can go for help, and I’m also going to be doing discussions with one of my classes online.

So far, I have had one class, the class who will be using the forum later, post one comment on my blog. This didn’t go too badly; some students even figured out how to sign in too. It took a long time for me to be able to make usernames for all of them; edublogs was moving at a very sluggish pace. But I’m looking forward to starting the forum next week and seeing how it goes.

I have received some good feedback about my blog already. One student told me yesterday that he checked my blog because he forgot when something was due, and he thought my blog was “cool.” So I’ve helped one student! Another student commented that she thought my website was a helpful and fun idea. I’m hoping other students will also gain something from the work I’m putting in.

I think that sometimes students, as technological as they are, view any electronic assignments that teachers give them as too much work and trouble. Has anyone else noticed that at all? But I think it is still our duty as teachers to expose them to the academic benefits of the online world; in college they will be doing everything online!

I’m feeling good about what I’ve done this week. Now I just have to make sure I keep it up!