Friday is computer lab day. However, I didn't keep my students in the lab for the entire class period today. I had them turn in essay II and gave them an assignment do to related to next week's readings. Instead of having them do the assignment in class as I did last week, I gave them until sunday 8pm to complete the assignment. I told them that they could most likely complete this assignment within Friday's class time, but they were under no obligation to do so.
Needless to say most of them chose to leave early. Time will tell if they complete the assignment on time, but I'm sure they will. Both of my sections seem perfectly willing to do the small amount of homework I assign. Also this way, I think that students will be more likely to read the assigned reading for next week. So I'm pretty happy with how things went.
I am thinking about seeing if my students want to start a class blog. This would give us a regular assignment for Friday lab days and I think they would enjoy it. Also, I think it will increase the overall amount of writing that they do, which, as any writer knows, is likely to improve their writing skills more than anything else.
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