I Don’t Get This

OK, lots of you do this in your blogs. Create an empty post. Why? I guess so you can fill it in later and prove to your teacher that you did it then? Or have I got that wrong.

Who is assessing your blog this semester? Who is assessing participation this semester? So if it is you (that is the answer to those questions btw) then how on earth does this achieve anything for you? I guess it seems to me that you would do this because you assume I or Seth are vetting your blogs to make sure you’re doing stuff. No, I read them because I’m interested and many of them are very good. Stop thinking of this as being at school with Big Brother looking over your shoulder making sure you really did do what you said you do. We are trying to let you be adults. If you say you did something, then we expect that you really did do something. What you’re doing by putting in place holder blog posts is the opposite of this.

Finally, imaginne that your blog is read by someone apart from your teacher. Do you think they will continue to read your blog when you treat your readers with this sort of laziness parading as proving to an nonexistent examiner that you really are doing what you’re supposed to be doing? What would you write or put in your blog if you really thought it was yours. Do that and the rest will take care of itself.