Tuesday, February 9, 2010

Discussion of Discussion On-line!

Greetings to you all--Hope you are enjoying this welcome "snow day."

Yesterday, we met to discuss how to make on-line discussion about discussion easy and interesting for people. My belief is that many of you are leading interpretive discussions in your classrooms or that you want to do so and that on-line support from others may be helpful. I know that I could never teach my classes without sustained dialogue about the texts we use, the questions we have about their meaning, the experiences we have leading discussion, and the responses that people have to the discussion opportunities that we offer. That is why I asked Brad to set up the blog and the wiki--so that we could talk about these things. I even imagined you finding one another on the wiki and working together to prepare clusters of questions! Maybe even going to each others' schools to co-lead (not so easy but could work with planning). . .

However, it appears that the wiki is a bit complicated to use. Therefore, we are in search of a more user-friendly, convenient on-line format, like some kind of a listserv.

We need your help! Please tell us: 1) Your ideas about suitable on-line formats; 2) What you would like to do with others--share/build clusters, discuss leading experiences, texts, find suitable texts for discussion in the various subject areas/ grade level domains (We could create a data base of texts and clusters!), find co-leaders, etc. If you tell us what you would like the site to do for you, it will help us to design it.

We look forward to hearing from you! Your insights will be most helpful.

Best wishes,

Sophie

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