Hi Susan,Week 1
11. PEER EDITION
Dafne,
I'm a new person, Susan and I teach
online and offline English at the U. of Florence in
Italy. I'm also enrolled in an online course at the university
to
learn how to teach online. So I am having trouble coordinating all this
stuff
online and go bananas sometimes. Don't think I can handle working
with
you guys, too because it's getting to be too much for me here. But, I
wonder
if I could ask you for some advice, even tho I'm not checking in
properly with the group?
I've
got over 20 years of in presence teaching experience, now they've put
me
online. What happens is I've given everyone lots of sites to visit, then
require a summary, a new vocab list
with translations, and 3 questions all pertinent
to the chosen text. Great, so I have all this one to one personal
relationship
with each and everyone, just like a real classroom. I need to
put
them on a forum, right? I'm fairly new at the computer,used to just
dust
it, now I am learning more, But I don't know how to manage all these
Italian
students. Your idea of a correction code sounds good and getting
them
to work with each other, but HOW???????
Can anyone give me a hand?
thanks and ciao, Susan Burg
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Hi Susan,
I am in a hurry I will answer briefly, but to have
my students read and
edit their peers' work, I have used Yahoo Groups. Students post their
assignments on folders created for the purpose, and this folders
are available to all participants. I work with heterogeneous
groups and each collaborative assignment goes around
the group until
they think they have the final version, which is
posted in another folder.
The assignment goes around in e-mail attachments. The different
versions are sent to me since they are part of the process, taken into
consideration for assessment.
I do not know if I have answered your question. I
will try to get back to this in another message.
Btw, I have been teaching for 29 years, and only a
year ago did I
dare into cyberspace. Let me tell you, Webheads is a
great space to learn by doing. Vance is the best model to learn from.
Cheers,
Daf