Blogging assignment

By now, I realize that I need to come up with other assignment idea. Second Life will not work.

In one of the e-mail lists that I subscribe to, I read an e-mail from Thom. He posted the URL for his syllabus for T101. I looked at the syllabus and there are a lot of cartoons that describe the assignments and there are some interesting projects. In this class, he requires his students to keep a blog for a part of their grade.

AHA!

This could be one of the assignments for the class. They could open up a blog account free and blog their readings for the class. This gives me the advantage of getting to think about their daily readings. I will ask them to blog what the readings remind them of in their daily lives, their thoughts and the issues they had while reading it. I too will keep a blog (this one). Everyone will read each other's blog (including mine) and comment on them. I can read everyone's blog before I come to class and identify major problems regarding their readings.

I like this idea... Doable, entertaining, educational. I should e-mail Thom and thank him for the idea some time.