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My head's spinning but I'm loving it [Classroom escapades 03]

It's the end of week 3 of my new Ning-multimedia class.



There's so much happening at times that I can scarcely keep up. So where to start? Well here's some of the highlights and issues I'm thinking about.



The building of community



The students are posting incredibly supportive comments to each other. And it's not empty rhetoric. They're making connections to their own lives - making comparisons and offering support and…
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Added by Greg Oz on February 8, 2008 at 1:30am — 2 Comments

The chaos begins (NOT) - jumping into the deep end with my ESL students



Well we're taking the journey further into the world of Ning in my class.



Today we went through some different features of our class Ning and we

jointly composed a response to a Forum topic and a Blog post (before I

deleted it when I accidentally pressed backspace - Memo to self - teach

students about saving drafts). The shared writing gave them a much

needed foundation. It seemed to help them when they were in the

computer…
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Added by Greg Oz on January 29, 2008 at 11:07pm — No Comments

The Ning adventure begins - in my class

This week I started using a Ning network with my English as a Second Language class.



It's an exciting, challenging time for me working with a group of students

with vastly differing levels of ICT knowledge. Some have studied in the

field while others have had very little experience with computers.



My big lesson this week is Model, model, model and small, small, small. In the

excitement of it all, I think I tried to get too many things going… Continue

Added by Greg Oz on January 26, 2008 at 3:01pm — No Comments

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