An Asynchronous Answer:

Course Objectives

The course I had intended to teach at the aformentioned two-year college revolved around combining blogs and RSS feeds to create an ePortfolio for student writing.  

Specifically, my course required that students:

• Keep a weekly course blog based off writing prompts that also utilized other media and/or links. Students would also follow each other's blogs through an RSS feed and comment on each other's work.
• Engage in process writing on their blog (through various prompts and exercises) towards the production of four major essays (literacy narrative, exploratory essay, evaluative essay, and research-based argument essay).
• Think critically about multimodal projects, blogs, and podcasts.

In the low-tech classroom, my objectives clashed directly with the available resources. In the next section I will try to give a general overview of my solutions before delving into detailed answers for specific problems in the low-tech classroom.