Rats. I had a lovely new post --- then I decided to check to see if I spelled "deterrent" correctly (which I hadn't -- I used an "a" instead of the final "e") and went to ms word and some prompt asked me if I wanted to save my posting, which of course I did, but the posting didn't get saved. This is not an interesting story. OK, so lemme try to recreate my post.

I'm realizing that I've probably confused students because I'm still not entirely used to the new Blogger interface. Blogger used to simply use your user name followed by blogspot.com for your blog's URL. The new Blogger allows users to input anything for the variable before "blogspot.com," as long as the name is not already in use. I suspect that the bad links I've gotten from some students may be because they've given me user name or blog title instead of what they input for the URL.

Dunno how blogging will work in this class. Several students have mentioned internet being down in library lab, in dorm labs. Some students talk about going home for weekend and getting their blogs set up there, since they're sure of internet access. I'm blogging right now in my office on a windows box and I blog at home on my Mac. No laptop or wireless connection, no audio/videoblog. But I've got easy and consistent access. I'm thinking that sporadic and problematic access constitutes a major deterrent to blogging. And here we are back to that word that invited me to quit the blog and access Word's spellcheck and then lose my posting. Not to fear. My mind actually retained what I had written.

Peace out. (Does anyone ever say that anymore? And what does "peace out" really mean? And why am I blathering here instead of getting some work done? Interesting that I'm blogging for a class I'm teaching, which technically means I'm working, but I don't consider writing on a blog work....