Success!

I tweaked my blog settings and now I will receive emails of your comments.

I also figured out how to access previous comments. Good thing, too, there's some good stuff there.

Thank you, David, Gaoming, April, and Fatina for the feedback. I will lay out a timeline for this process.

I am interested in quality more than quantity, except where it relates to students wanting to write. Often when I give prompts, one or two students will write two sentences and then lay down their pencils, so I wonder if blogging will entice them to write more. However, that problem is a bit removed from the question of my TIP, so I'll have to rethink that one.

As far as the tendency for kids to be too nice in commenting, I don't think it will be too great a problem with the current class I have. They do well in overcoming the culture of niceness and tend to give quality feedback, even if it is constructive criticism. I've been working on this with them. Nonetheless, it's something for me to watch; I ought to make sure my questions address that factor.

Thanks! I don't feel so isolated anymore.