Surprising Start

Well, I won't lie. I wasn't very excited to start to Flat Classroom Project. We worked on the project during Classroom Computer Applications, and incorporating it into our class wasn't the problem--the students were. For some reason the students did not participate. I was disappointed and discouraged, so that is kind of how I went into this session.

Ask me now? I have to retract and just jump up and down with teacher joy! Those kids were ACTIVE participants in the FCP at the beginning. I was so happy to see them working on the project from the beginning, adding me to their Ning, etc. They all introduced themselves, and I was surprised to see many were from the US. It might also be that the people I looked at happen to be from the US, and I scanned over people who were not--it is probably evenly distributed.

Overall, my first interactions with the students were really pleasant! My main concern about FCP at first was really more of a functionality issue. I could not figure out how to reply to a specific question on the discussion. I wanted to message each student back after their response, and could not figure it out! The students were active though, and I looked forward to seeing what they posted later.