{"id":3494,"date":"2007-01-15T08:10:44","date_gmt":"2007-01-15T08:10:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lisahistory.net\/wordpress\/?p=9"},"modified":"2007-01-15T08:10:44","modified_gmt":"2007-01-15T08:10:44","slug":"ideas-for-online-discussion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lisahistory.net\/wordpress\/2007\/01\/ideas-for-online-discussion\/","title":{"rendered":"Ideas for online discussion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of my weakest areas recently has been online discussion, and not just because Blackboard&#8217;s new discussion board is execrable. I&#8217;ve been reading up on a good method for summarizing student&#8217;s contributions and moving the conversation forward: Collison et al&#8217;s Facilitating Online Learning: Effective Strategies for Moderators (2000). I <a target=\"_blank\" title=\"Collison summary\" href=\"http:\/\/www.miracosta.edu\/onlineteaching\/roundtables\/collison.pdf\">created a summary<\/a> for our roundtable workshop next week.<\/p>\n<p>The main idea is that the instructor&#8217;s posts are &#8220;interventions&#8221; in the discussion. They should list mini-quotations from several student posts, noting common areas, tensions, etc. in the thread. The instructor then could take on one or more roles, generating a new direction, setting up a concept for reflection, mediating a polarized discussion, or offering an alternative view. All this while trying to avoid grandstanding or hijacking the conversation. The point is to guide the students&#8217; interaction with each other in a way that furthers class goals, answering the needs of the larger group.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of my weakest areas recently has been online discussion, and not just because Blackboard&#8217;s new discussion board is execrable. I&#8217;ve been reading up on a good method for summarizing student&#8217;s contributions and moving the conversation forward: Collison et al&#8217;s Facilitating Online Learning: Effective Strategies for Moderators (2000). I created a summary for our roundtable [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[33,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-discussion","category-pedagogy"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisahistory.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3494","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisahistory.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisahistory.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisahistory.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisahistory.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3494"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lisahistory.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3494\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisahistory.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisahistory.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisahistory.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}