May
21

Collaboration on the Last Day of School

Filed Under (For Students, Teaching Reflections) by Melissa Lynn Pomerantz on 21-05-2008 and tagged , ,

My students have been getting comments from a computer class in Oregon. I’m not sure if anyone has commented back yet–this will need to be addressed tomorrow.

Unfortunately tomorrow is our last day of school and I’m not sure how many of my darlings will continue to blog over the summer. I will make it part of their final to comment on a blog at the Beaverton school. The cool thing is that many of them have blogs about issues they care about. It might be a nice circle back to the conversations that we had about what we care most deeply about and how we can inform, persuade, and effect change by communicating with others. Perhaps there will be some empathy with people who are trying to effect change in their own small way.

The other thing that was great for me to see on the Beaverton students’ blogs was the way they had incorporated multi-modal forms of communication (video, images, surveys, posters) All were cited, I was glad to see :-). I’m not sure if edublogs supports surveys or not, but I’m going to investigate. That could be a great resource next year. It looked like the Beaverton school used Google to do the survey. I’ll have to play around.

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Sue Waters on 22 May, 2008 at 6:23 pm #
    

Yes you can embed Google Documents surveys into Edublogs or alternatively you could use Survey Monkey and link to the survey.


Melissa Lynn Pomerantz on 22 May, 2008 at 7:55 pm #
    

Thanks–I’ll try that with my classes next year!


tracy silvangoli on 23 May, 2008 at 5:49 am #
    

I had a chance to view the documentary last night. The students did a wonderful job. I especially liked the “man on the street” interviews and the research/informative sections of the film. Great job!


Elliott on 28 May, 2008 at 2:10 pm #
    

I was so excited when you talked about our school. I hope that you and your class continue your blogs because they are really cool and I think that every time you post, you show the world a little more of who you are. Keep up the good work.


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