Next year's course design suggestion

- Assign reading class assignments and writing one week, following by reading other's posts and responding the following week

- Divide up the responsibilities of reading and writing a summary digest among participants

- Somehow manage course participation better (possibilities include having a way to "weed out" people who aren't participating, asking people to keep a separate blog just for the course or have a feed just for course-related materials, limiting enrollment)

- Consider having participants do Technorati tags for each week (specific to the week/assignment) so it's easier to find the relevant posts

- Have a place other than blogs for course-related group discussions (could be asynchronous like a discussion forum or synchronous like a Skype chat; both would be valuable)