...a learning community where we share and discuss our writing
Below are some examples of how I set up a learning environment where we make all our writing public. I believe strongly that this shared discourse facilitates the social construction of knowledge as well as establishes a zone of proximal development for students. Since I teach in an electronic context, it is much easier for me to set up this sharing of texts.
This is an example of a class discussion carried on via a bulletin board inside the enCore Learning Environment over Dante's Inferno.
--see original assignment
--see example discussion
With almost every draft my students turn in, we post it into a bulletin board and do peer response on it. Students learn a lot by reading and responding to each other's texts.
--see my Guide to Peer Response
--example from English 1302 (see student responses)
--example from English 0301 (see student responses)
I often have my students write about their writing experience. I will post a prompt in a discussion board, and then students will respond to it (and sometimes to each other).
--see description of 1301 Journals (including process journals)
--see example journal topic and discussion from English 0301
--see my teaching demo on using Process Journals as a teaching practice, presented San Antonio Writing Project Feb. Conference, 2007
created July 2007, updated Oct. 2011 | L. Lennie Irvin