Blackboard "Blogs"
Hi all,
At my college, they have begun using "blogs" for student introductions/welcomes. In the past, this was done through the discussion boards. I have found that students (and instructors, too!) seem to ignore the blogs. Where I used to get multiple responses and be able to build a bit of a community, there have been classes where no one has responded to my attempts to build a dialogue/introduction blog.
Does anyone else use the blog feature for this? Any success stories/ideas?
Thanks,
Kate
Jolly,
Sad but true for many of us.
Herbert Brown III
Kate, I hear ya...I've taught 240 online courses spanning 11 years, and I've offered non-mandatory DBs to my students that offered additional content information to them. What I get from my students are two questions: Is it required and will they be graded. When the answer to both questions is no, they simply will not undertake additional work that requires more time but will not be graded.
