Workshop first-day let-down
Well, that was anti-climactic. I've been looking forward to this online workshop, and part of what I've been anticipating has been the student interaction.
When I logged onto the workshop yesterday morning, there were only three other students enrolled, which wasn't promising. By mid-afternoon, it had grown to seven, so that wasn't bad... seven seems like a nice number. I have to critique other students' work, and critiquing more than six is probably more than I want to do. (I guess people wait until the last minute to make the decision to enroll.)
So I introduced myself on the message board, as requested by the instructor, and I waited. And waited. And complained to Twitter, and waited some more. More than 24 hours later... still no other introductions. It's just weird.
Part of the deal is that I have some questions I want to ask about the assignment, but since my questions go in the same space as the introductions, I thought I'd wait until the introductions were done before I cluttered up the forum with assignment discussion. Maybe I should just ask my questions.
Maybe I need to find a better social outlet, if lack of social interaction in an online class is bugging me so much.