Teaching, Learning, Blogging

Late yesterday afternoon and last night, I changed the background color of the class blog, organized the links a little, and created another scroll bar for links to both classes.

I just spent some time this afternoon adding the link to the Paradigm Online Writing Assistant and finnagling with the direct links to specific sections of Blackboard (Discussion Board, Virtual Classroom, and Tools). All of this took some time. Frankly, though, I'm pretty sure the work I've been doing over the summer has been time-consuming only because I'm doing this for the first time and discovering what it is I want to do/can do. After doing this once, future "expeditions" shouldn't be as difficult. In fact, I should be able to show other folks how to do this, and make their experience far less frustrating--not that my experience has been particularly frustrating.

While I'm on the subject of "frustration," though, I wish Blogger would please allow folks to upgrade to Blogger Pro. I have been waiting to do so for a couple of weeks now. I want to try the RSS feed. If I handle the RSS feed properly, I might manage to create a "daily reader" for students. We'll see.