I’ve been trying a different method of getting the students to post on the Gothic – up until now, I’ve set tasks on the class blog and asked students to respond on their own blogs. This was effective for wider reading ‘portfolios’ but a bit of a faff for students to go in and out of each other’s blogs and post comments. So as we’re all now studying the same text as a class, I’ve been posting a task on the main page and asking them to reply in a comment. I did it once and they all said it was much more helpful – we got them up on the whiteboard and discussed them at the start of the lesson but wouldn’t have needed to.
So I’ve done it again and this time I’m trying to encourage them to ask questions and respond to each other’s comments – that way the later commenters can’t just be lazy and copy ideas from others – they have to engage with them. And the early posters should also be posing some questions for them. We’ll see if it works – watch this space!
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April 2nd, 2008 at 8:22 am
Just a suggestion – why not set a deadline for the comments and then moderate them at the deadlin. This means that the students won’t get a chance to see the others comments until the lesson. Those students who miss the dealine will be revealed!!!!!.