status of the blog experiment

the oil painting blogs are really coming along. for some students it has been a total god-send...especially those with organizational or handwriting issues. and those students are finding a lot of success. check out this one, this one, and this one. 

but for others i think it is out of sight out of mind. in other words some student are just not keeping up. and this bugs me. 

i have made checklists for them. i put the homework on the weekly syllabus and on the class blog. and the truth is blogs are hard to check and assess. i've made this big checklist to keep track of what they have and haven't done. it's in no way an assessment tool but it helps me to keep after them. 

so i will continue to ponder the usefulness of these things and invent as i go.