Day 5 - Progress Report

Before I do disappear on day 5 of 11online/2012, I thought I'd report on our progress.

Our aim is to increase both our audience, as a class, and the number of comments each student receives each term.  The cold hard facts show that the class blog has been viewed 186 times in the last week ending 6.00pm Friday 17 February.  One students has 9 views, another 5 views of their only posts to date and one student has 7 views of the two posts she has made so far.  We're also very happy to have 5 views from the U.S.A and 1 from Germany.  It means our blog is international now!

If I think with a little more emotion than statistics it has been a good start to blogging by my students that has actually put a smile on my Professor McGonagall like dial.  Despite the spelling and punctuation mistakes (it will interesting to see how much this improves over time) in their initial posts 10 students have managed to make contributions to 11online/2012 and another 4 have posts drafted but not yet published.

It all gets a bit hard when your teacher is insisting that you proof read and edit your posts for spelling, punctuation, grammar, the use of precise language that grabs and holds the reader's interest, and writing for audience understanding and interest.  What a killjoy!