OK, I'm up in my office. Class was pretty quiet. We did a freewrite, then folks exchanged papers and did peer reviews. I'm thinking how to revise this class for next semester. I think my teaching style has been good for those students who are self-motivated. For those students who require points taken off if they don't do things exactly according to a plan, then I think this class hasn't been as effective. I'm not sure how to strike the balance...but that's something I need to address for the revision of this class.
I will use blogs again. One student today said that she just doesn't think of blogging. I think that having class in a computer lab once a week will help this. I hope. I have to follow up with the people I've contacted in education. Library streaming lab isn't the greatest solution, because there are so few functioning computers. There must be some way to have class regularly in a lab that will accomodate 30-35 students. Would be good if the class size could be reduced. But that won't happen.
Coming up with topics for essays is something I need to address. Today the drafts of the explaining a concept essay were due, but as with the other essays, I had several students who were still trying to decide what to write about. Need to do more invention writing in class.
OK, I've got some writing of my own that's due tomorrow. So I gotta go get to it.
