Sweet World of Joan

I just finished teaching about the basics of blogging and social networking to my students. I enjoy teaching about these topics because its one of the activities I love doing online and seeing how my students are interested and asking questions on blogging really make me happy. As a conclusion to a very interesting semester I organized this blog writing and social networking activity to measure and get feedback on how much they learn from our classes. To my students please click this link to proceed to your online activity Go to Digitized Youth

My class in Introduction to Information and Technology have this blogging project, I gave them 5 blog post assignment(one post per week) with specific topics that will end this semester. It is not compulsory, it is to be their final project I let them choose between blogging or the traditional 30-paged term paper about how to earn money online. My students are freshmen BSBA students so the topic on the research is interesting/beneficial to them. Its been a very long and tiring week on keeping tabs on each of them as they create their blogs. One of our difficulties was there is no computer laboratory at PLMAR that has internet connection, so our communication during this writing project is thru text messaging, yahoo messenger, email and friendster. After a few sleepless nights checking and linking blogs to my tech site the digitized youth , which I made specially for my students in mind, I now have the pleasure of reading their blogs (and of course grading them). It is only the second ...