Outline
What was so “boring” about LIBS101 in the first place
- The Tragic Textbook
- Teaching Online Skills Offline
Why a blog fit the bill
- Flexibility
- Publishing Platform (bye bye tragic textbook!)
- Announcements
- Communication
- What about Blackboard?
Transforming the Course
- Reinforcement and Immediate Feedback
- Homework Exercises + In-class Exercises
- Pathfinder Project
- Textbook becomes Prep Posts
How we created the blog (the technical stuff)
- Individual space vs. group collaboration
- RSS, wha? Aggregation, who?
- Categories, tags, and filtering feeds
- Simplicity is the goal
How the Blog helped (or didn’t)
- Pathfinder Project Success
- Student - Student Interaction
- Comment Assignment
- More please!
- Student - Instructor Interaction
- Comments, Comments, Comments
- Feedback when they need it
- Casualness
- Student Reactions
What will we do differently next Spring?
- More Interaction
- Peppy Preps
- Design
- Where is the Syllabus?
- List of Student Blogs