Thing 1 & Thing 2

I'm excited to begin 23 Things. I have heard great things regarding this course from two of my colleagues. So I decided to give it a try myself. I am a business/technology teacher and try to incorporate new technologies into my curriculum all the time. After reading Thing 1  I felt like I should be doing a lot more. I do online testing, blogs, wikis, email communications between students, surveys, etc. etc. I feel as if I am moving in the right direction with my students but I find myself struggling with the issue of TIME management & the issue of a few students not having access to a computer or the Internet. The more I do - the more I feel the kids just don't get it. My students in particular seem to struggle with the new instructional methods that I try to implement in the course. They don't like typing, they would rather write it out, they struggle with email extras like sending attachments, they don't know the difference between a Word doc. or a pdf file. So I end up having to back track and teach common computer knowledge lessons to my students which then interferes with the time that was set aside for the project. There is just not enough time to do it all.  The students I get are having less and less skills in regards to technology.