I hold in particularly high esteem those faculty members not only willing to talk about teaching failures but also to publish articles about them

But you also can’t read them and be unimpressed by how much they learned through the analysis. Each one is an exemplar of the kind of critical reflection that fosters growth. This is reflection that makes us wise and wonderful teachers. And finally you also can’t read these articles and not realize how much there is for us to learn from one another’s mistakes. I’m definitely in favor of more articles like these, but there is one caveat. It might be better if they were published after you have tenure or a continuing contract.

I realized the students expected me to always be online — including at 3 a.m.!  By not establishing a clear response time expectation, I set myself up for poor evaluations by some students. Having been treated to instant answers early in the course, they expected that to continue throughout.

Did I mention receiving tons of email that first semester? Three weeks with 25 students had yielded more than 300 emails.

I decided to use a question and answer forum to handle the more generic questions.