Archive for October, 2008
Hello again everyone,
Today in my Homestay English class most of the students managed to post a thread on the Sister Classes Forum. Their posts are about their hometowns. Talking about one’s hometown was a topic in their textbook. So, it relates to to the syllabus. I decided it would be better for them to post their own threads. I thought it would be easier for your students to comment on the posts that way. I’m going to try to have my students comment on the threads started by your students. The problem is that some of the posts are very long with contributions by many students. It’s going to be difficult to get the students to read the posts. They’ll look at all the text and just give up before they start. If I can, I’ll use diigo or something else to highlight some of the posts to help the students.
Anyway, I hope your students will comment on my students’ posts. My students are looking forward to it.
Cheers!
October 29th, 2008
Hello everyone!
Thank you for all the great things you’ve contributed to this project. My classes are finally getting started on it.
I posted a new discussion thread on the Student forum as an example for my students in the Homestay English class. Yesterday, the lesson was about communicating with the homestay family. We talked about explaining one’s home town. I decided that the Student Forum would be a great way for my students to practice this. Most are finished their draft and will be posting to the forum in next Wednesday’s class. Thanks to Maria in Spain for joining the discussion.
My students in the Music class are starting their voicethread project about music genres. Hopefully I will be able to post it in about 2 weeks. Once I do I hope that your students join the voicethread conversation.
Recently we had a festival at our university. I have tried to insert some photos here but alas I’ve failed. So, I’ll try again later.
Cheers!
October 23rd, 2008
Hi, you all!
This is Pau from Spain. Just a couple of things.
In SHOWCASE: I can only see one post from Kuwait by Ahmed.Is it so? Is there only one?
And I can’t see the presentations from Mexico. Do I have to do something special?
Somthing else, we posted in the FORUM because we thought it was there where we were expected to introduce ourselves. Perhaps we should have started by doing it in the SHOWCASE adding some nice photographs…..
By the way,Larry,my students are answering the questions your students posed. I hope they will be on the cyberspace this week. And some Urban Tribes presentations which I’ll upload in the SHOWCASE if that’s ok. We will be adding some photos to our Introductions as well but I can’t say when!!!
Love from beautiful Tarragona, in Spain!
PAU
October 17th, 2008
Hi, Everybody,
I wanted to let everybody know that i’ll be posting some student presentations at the Student Showcase blog next week sometime. However, as an experiment, they will be presentations made with a web tool called Flowgram and not Voice Thread. Flowgram lets you leave written comments, and they’re planning on adding voice comments, but they haven’t gotten to that point yet.
In order to leave comments in the Flowgram itself you have to register with Flowgram. But, if your students want to leave comments on the presentations, they can just use the Edublogs comments section by writing their name and their email address. They don’t have to be registered with Edublogs in order to leave a comment on posts in our blog, though they have to be registered and logged-in to participate in the Student Forum.
Each Flowgram will consist of about seven slides with text and audio narration. Student will be sharing what they’ve learned in our study of the “first” Americans and European explorers. In addition, they’ll be sharing about their own ethnic culture and which early settlers most reflect their family’s reason for coming to the United States.
I hope that is clear. Let’s see how it goes.
Larry
October 15th, 2008
