In other words, I would carry on a series of N tutorials on-line with my students. Quite simply, it just did not happen. While I did connect and correspond with a few students, most simply ignored this effort. Even those students who did use e-mail did not use it to learn about the course. The main consequence is that I now use e-mail for classroom administration very effectively.
Students get their grades, grade distributions, announcements, and test hints by e-mail.
Technology can replace classroom instruction I first thought that I could replace myself in the classroom, at least part of the time, by using technology. I quickly found that students wanted and expected me to teach in the classroom. The main consequence is that I now spend just as much time in the classroom as I did before. However, students spend less time copying down lecture notes because they already have printed lecture notes. Like others, I was seriously wrong.