wiki teaching
Creating a collaborative website with students has been really fun. Students now have their own homepages from which they link their assignments. Their first papers/first drafts have been posted, and I have visited each one, making comments as I go. Students seem intrigued by this system.
I also did the first assignment along with my students, posting my first draft for them to see. Many commented that my draft inspired them or helped them to write their own.
Next steps, students will team up and visit each other’s sites/papers. I have asked them to identify main ideas and supporting evidence in the papers they read. In class, we are doing this same exercise with essays from our text book.
So far, I love this experiment.
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Several students have commented that they care more about their drafts because they know they have to post them for others to see… Thanks for the encouragement, Jane.
Jan Oct 22, 11:55 am
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Wow, Jan, you have introduced them to so much (and so gracefully) in the first half of the semester. They are collaborating and communicating in a new environment (the wiki), and they are identifying assertions and evidence. This’ll stay with them for all their college writing, and beyond. It’s so applicable!
Jane Kokernak Oct 17, 08:12 am