After some badgering and threatening of poor grades, most of my 191 students have accepted invitations to be on the blog and have made comments. One student has posted a good question for the others to comment on. Yeah! Since I only see my students twice a week, it is hard to reinforce the blog activity in class. I am hoping that now that most of the students are connected that they will develop the habit of checking the blog. Last semester I ran two D2L discussions. The students ignored the assignment until I strongly encouraged them (yes, I was close to yelling!) to do the assignment. It really helped to post their grades; that is an effective big stick.
I added some news, weather, and quote of the day to spruce up the look of the blog. I want to embed a youtube video as one of the posts. Having the ability to add pictures and videos is one of the advantages of blogs over D2L. I do not want the blog to be drudgery for the students; I want to entice them to visit the blog so they can get their peers' opinions and ideas. Maybe I should add the air hockey and mini golf games to the blog!
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