This week in Inside Higher Ed, Joshua Kim asserts, “The world is divided into two types of people: those who prefer Track Changes in Word and those who prefer to write collaboratively in Google Docs.” Kim’s explanation of the two…
Tag: community
Community Building Classroom Activities: A Round-Up
How do you take a group of individual, unrelated people and connect them in a supportive community quickly? It’s a question teacher face at the beginning of every term. Here are some answers. Begin by establishing reasons for students to…
What’s the Trick to Building Community in the Classroom?
Online or off, getting students to talk to each other is a tricky task. I’ve had my happy share of classes where discussion took off, but I’ve also had my quota of classes where not even bribery with cookies and…
CCCC 2006: Day One
Ahh. Day one, and how do I spend it? Fiddling about for a while in my room. I didn’t go to a morning workshop, so there seemed no reason to rush. I did go downstairs to make myself a nametag…