Comments on: Finding the Right Mix http://weblogg-ed.com/2002/finding-the-right-mix/ The Read/Write Web in the Classroom Fri, 05 Sep 2008 23:16:57 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 By: Karen McComas http://weblogg-ed.com/2002/finding-the-right-mix/#comment-67 Karen McComas Thu, 31 Oct 2002 12:55:25 +0000 http://weblogg-ed.com/?p=141#comment-67 <a></a>Thanks for picking up on my posting, Will. Like you, I thought the blogs would be perfect for the college classroom. But it seems that by the time I get finished reading all that my students are writing (the computer class kids are again posting their stuff at antville and then my face to face classes are writing intensive and they are writing in class daily giving me lots to read), what the teachers I'm working with are writing, planning for my classes and workshops I'm giving, mentoring new faculty, advising students, running the Writing Across the Curriculum program on campus, trying to keep up with my own writing, and trying to keep some semblance of a family life....there's just not enough time. As I write this I realize that the real problem has nothing to do with blogs but with the tremendous number of responsibilities I have...thus, leaving me without enough TIME....arrrrrgh! But, I still think that a more efficient use of the class weblogs would have made my work easier if I had simply worked out a good system. The good news is that there is always next semester to try again! Thanks for picking up on my posting, Will. Like you, I thought the blogs would be perfect for the college classroom. But it seems that by the time I get finished reading all that my students are writing (the computer class kids are again posting their stuff at antville and then my face to face classes are writing intensive and they are writing in class daily giving me lots to read), what the teachers I’m working with are writing, planning for my classes and workshops I’m giving, mentoring new faculty, advising students, running the Writing Across the Curriculum program on campus, trying to keep up with my own writing, and trying to keep some semblance of a family life….there’s just not enough time. As I write this I realize that the real problem has nothing to do with blogs but with the tremendous number of responsibilities I have…thus, leaving me without enough TIME….arrrrrgh!

But, I still think that a more efficient use of the class weblogs would have made my work easier if I had simply worked out a good system. The good news is that there is always next semester to try again!

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