I finally got my course evals from the Internet Tools & Issues I taught last spring. Mostly high scores and mostly good comments — and then there’s the one bugaboo that stands out right in the middle of the comment sheet:

This class assumed I knew how to blogg [sic], I took this class because I thought it would teach me how to...it did not.

This from an online course that required them to post to the course blog and comment on each other's posts for sixteen straight weeks. They learned to incorporate images and comics and video and audio into blog posts. They read and wrote about blogs as citizen journalism. They considered Google and privacy. They discussed net neutrality and user-generated content. And then we talked about it in a zillion other ways as well. In short, they were as up to their eyeballs in the composing practices of bloggery as I can possibly encourage distance-learning students to be.

Le sigh.