Wednesday, October 6, 2010

A Failure to Communicate

I gave simple instructions.  I repeated them the next day, pointing out how those simple instructions were not followed.  The request?  Please create a blog that has your name and the number 310 without spaces as your url, and create a user name using the same formula.  Notice that my url is mrbennett310.blogspot.com and my user name is Mr. Bennett310. 

Yet, I see that Ashray88 and Maxximum12 have joined bulldozereddy and FX894Fly.    I am curious about the limits of educaation.  Please comment below on why I am unable to motivate my students to follow what appears to me to be the simplest of instructions.  The teacher asks to be educated.  Please let me know how it is that I failed to achieve my goal in such a simple and straightforword matter.  Don't hold back.  I can take it.

5 comments:

  1. Although i am not one of these names, In defense of these students the site isn't perfect and sometimes when you follow somebody it follows using your e-mail name, i know for at least one of these names they have an appropriate page and url.

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  2. Agreed with Alex, this site seems overly complicated. However, it's a simple fix. To change the username, simply go to Dashboard, and in the row of options next to "New Post", click Settings. From there you will see under the "Basic" tab that you can change your title. To change the URL, just go to the "Publishing" tab next to "Basic"

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  3. I feel the same way as Alex. I haven't heard of this website before this class and thought the user name is what would appear in the URL not the Email account and created my account accordingly

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  4. Ok. So that explains why your domain name is paul10000, instead of paulsumoul... I'm sorry the intricacies of this web site were temporarily beyond your level of technical competency. But, while we're on the subject, and since you do have a blog, albeit one possessing an unorthodox domain name, please tell me why you didn't complete the required assignment to post something on it?

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