{"id":53,"date":"2009-06-13T15:11:01","date_gmt":"2009-06-13T23:11:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/louisethomson\/?p=53"},"modified":"2009-06-27T21:09:01","modified_gmt":"2009-06-28T05:09:01","slug":"communicating-while-moodling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/louisethomson\/2009\/06\/13\/communicating-while-moodling\/","title":{"rendered":"Communicating while Moodling…"},"content":{"rendered":"

The unit that I am creating in my Moodle course site is one that will focus on perspective.\u00a0 <\/span>Students will examine the gold rush in the Cariboo from the perspective of different groups who were present and will not just look at life as it pertained to the miners.\u00a0 <\/span>I chose to have the students work in a forum that would utilize a jigsaw strategy wherein each pair of students would learn about their person and then teach the other groups about that person by introducing themselves in-role.\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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I wanted make sure that the other students read and thought about the experiences of these major gold rush characters so I have required them to respond to each of the other group\u2019s characters in-role as well.\u00a0 <\/span>I have provided some suggestions for how they might go about this but think that this format will provide a lot of opportunity for students to display some critical thinking skills.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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I also fully intend to create my own character, fictional or otherwise, and participate in the forum myself.\u00a0 <\/span>This will allow me to ask students questions and try to challenge their knowledge of the time period.\u00a0 <\/span>The asynchronous aspect of the forum environment will allow students the time to go and research the answer to any questions they may be given.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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From the teaching perspective I feel that using a forum will allow me to easily track participation as each group will have its own thread.\u00a0 <\/span>Groups failing to participate will be obvious.\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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In addition to this I would also like to have the students create blogs in their own voice as another way to demonstrate their learning.\u00a0 <\/span>I have been unable to figure out how to set up a blog in Moodle yet so I will continue on with my quest!<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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***An update to this post…For now, I have given up on the blog as discussion with fellow classmates and my online research shows that an internal blog format is something that Moodle is still working on.\u00a0 My school district is quite restrictive about allowing the students to access blogging sites so I have chosen to insert a chat into the course shell instead.\u00a0 <\/em><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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As part of the Gold Rush unit my students will be reading the novel Cariboo Runaway.\u00a0 The chat format will be one that I think the students will find engaging as it is something they have not experienced in the classroom.\u00a0 It will be conducted during class time in the lab and will test the students understanding of the novel as well as their ability to respond to higher-order thinking questions that relate the fictional characters to real characters from the Gold Rush that they have studied.\u00a0 <\/em><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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The chat function may be limited by the fact that students who have a better understanding of the novel may monopolize the discussion so accountability will have to be built in by requiring a number of contributions from all students.\u00a0 Another limiting factor may be the typing issue but they have spent enough time on All The Right Type haven’t they?<\/em><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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