Best Intentions, and all that Rot
Week Two and I have NOT changed my position about blogs, electronic grammar homework, or the non-acceptance of late work.
I'd say I'm doing pretty good.
Even though they are dragging their feet, my students are learning what I expect of them and why. I was pretty discouraged around the middle of last week (which is why I did not write the inaugural blog post then--speak life, ya'll) because both of my classes were mildly disrespectful and being, ahem, stubborn about the technology thing.
But!
My WR 95 class has virtually turned it all around, though I still have about a third of them who have not created their blogs yet. (They'll be persuaded once their two-week grade check comes through.) We just had a lecture about recognizing complete sentences and they're participation in class was great, and they all jumped into my Mad Spelling Experiment with what could be mistaken as enthusiasm. And they seem tosecretly like Bless Me, Ultima. Which is FABULOUS good. I have this feeling ("I can't shake it!" to misquote Mr. Skywalker) that this WR 95 is going to make huge progress, though maybe not quite as much as my first WR 95 class did. (But they were adorable, so they will be tough for these folks to beat.)
My WR 90 class, though? Herm. We'll see how our first discussion of The Alchemist goes before I pass any more judgment on them than I'm already carrying around. It has got to get better, hasn't it?! Mantra: What's intuitive to me is not intuitive to them.
I'd say I'm doing pretty good.
Even though they are dragging their feet, my students are learning what I expect of them and why. I was pretty discouraged around the middle of last week (which is why I did not write the inaugural blog post then--speak life, ya'll) because both of my classes were mildly disrespectful and being, ahem, stubborn about the technology thing.
But!
My WR 95 class has virtually turned it all around, though I still have about a third of them who have not created their blogs yet. (They'll be persuaded once their two-week grade check comes through.) We just had a lecture about recognizing complete sentences and they're participation in class was great, and they all jumped into my Mad Spelling Experiment with what could be mistaken as enthusiasm. And they seem to
My WR 90 class, though? Herm. We'll see how our first discussion of The Alchemist goes before I pass any more judgment on them than I'm already carrying around. It has got to get better, hasn't it?! Mantra: What's intuitive to me is not intuitive to them.
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