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Why Johnny Won?t Post

March 9, 2008

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WHY STUDENTS DON’T POST

“Why do some students resist participating in course discussion boards when they know their grade will suffer? How can students with polished social skills come across in online courses as uncooperative and unengaged, with short postings of little substance?” Tim Dotson (in “Why Johnny Won’t Post,” CONVERGE ONLINE, August 27, 2003) provides four categories for students’ failures to post:

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For Thomas More, revival

March 9, 2008

For Thomas More, revival New leadership, technological focus put school back on trackBy KATHLEEN GALLAGHER
kgallagher@journalsentinel.comPosted: April 26, 2008

Enrollment is up 40% this year, the $360,000 budget deficit has been erased, and St. Thomas More High School has for the first time passed the $1 million annual fund-raising mark.

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