In contrast with my previous post, today has actually been a refreshing day regarding pedagogy. I’ve been asked to help a sociology professor here on campus set up a blog and a netvibes universe for the students in her class. I just spent an hour or so in her office going over the various aspects of blogging and netvibes, showing her how to use them and all that jazz. I’m excited to see how her students take on creating their own blog. We did it in Digital Ethnography and it proved to be a very effective teaching tool, not to mention it gave the students an opportunity to really collaborate outside the classroom (OMG! Students work outside the classroom?!…. I know, right?). In her class, the students are split into groups and are supposed to research the various roles of women in different parts of the world (I think? She hasn’t given me a lot of detail quite yet). Does anyone have advice for her/me that might make this work a little better? She was open to my suggestion that she might want to slightly modify her approach to the class so instead of turning in assignments to her on paper, students can just post them to the blog.