Wednesday, January 12, 2011

Second day of class: Blogs

Wow, many lessons learned. I am continually surprised at how confounding and frustrating technology can be. What seemed to be quite a simple process turned into a bit of a mess. Next time I will make sure the language setting for all of the class computers is English! Yeah, sure was not expecting that one.

I hope we have gotten some of the kinks worked out. I am not entirely sure, but I think so. We'll see.

For my students (and I don't know why anyone else would be following this blog), I want to let you know that I will be blogging right along with you. I have to admit that this is my first time writing blogs and assigning blogs, so it all is a bit of an experiment. I just have not had good experiences giving the weekly reading quiz, so this is an attempt to try something more constructive, and ideally less divisive. Let's see where it goes.

Good luck this semester!

D.

3 comments:

  1. Mr. Olsen, I have created my first blog, it was tons of fun, and I am so excited to do more. I am so grateful you introduced me to a new world of blogging! I'm having a little problem with posting my blog to angel but other then that things went smooth. Thank you for accepting me as a student! When you get a minute, would you point me in the right direction with angel? Thanks, your eager to learn student.
    ~ Mindy Lou Underwood

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  2. It was frustrating but also kind of amusing that most of the computers were set to Japanese, a lovely language but impossible to read without prior knowledge.

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  3. Yeah, it is a little hard to figure out at first, but once we get the system in place, I think it will run smoothly! See you later in the week!

    D.

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