Hi Rodney,
I am not sure if I have done something wrong or if this is the way it
should work, of if something can be tweaked to include notify the student
writer...I have featured two blogs and I am getting notifications
regarding responses. But I am not the writer just the instructor, how the
students who are writers also be notified? What should I have done
differently in the posting process?
Thank you for your help.
Georgia
> Gloria:
>
> To feature a blog, look on the NING site to the extreme left column. Go
> down and you will see the tab -add a discussion, click on that and cut and
> past your Featured blog. Place Featured blog, your institution in the
> subject line
>
> And thanks...As you can see having as many as 100 student blogs being
> submitted each week, it can become a nightmare for students to follow
> specific conversations, know where to post their responses, and for us to
> manage them. Please encourage your students to use these, but understand
> that if they see an interesting blog in the general blogs to please
> respond..
>
> Thanks..
>
> r
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: The Partners Project [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf
> Of gsitara
> Sent: Monday, October 01, 2012 10:24 AM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: featuring a blog
>
> First of all, I apologize for having so many questions and I thank you for
> your patience.
>
> How do we feature a student blog?
>
> thank you
> g
>
>
>> Georgia:
>>
>> No problem:
>>
>> I have addressed your questions below..r
>>
>>
>> Hello Partners,
>>
>> This is my first time participating and I wonder how the group process
>> works. How do students sign up for case study project topics?
>>
>> Students will identify to you whether or not they will do a case study
>> or a service learning project.
>>
>> Will the topics be on the site and students can sign up directly on
>> the site?
>>
>> The topics are listed on the xl -sheet attached. They will identify
>> their first, second, and third choice.
>>
>> You will place them into teams of from 3/4 from your school based upon
>> choices.
>>
>> (on the XL sheet attached you will list your school/ and their choices
>> something like
>>
>> SCHOOL X 1SL
>>
>> SCHOOL X 2CS
>>
>> SCHOOL X 3CS
>>
>> These are three student teams from School X, Team 1 has decided to do
>> a service learning group project, and teams 2 and 3 have decided to do
>> case studies.
>>
>> Each team will then decide upon their first 3 topics, in order of
>> preference and then I (or the Partner) will place these on the spread
>> sheet. I have done this for School X on the Spread sheet attached..
>>
>> SCHOOL X 1sl Indigenous rights/collective rights 1st choice, TOPICS
>> Anti-Racism (2nd choice), Neoliberalism, post neoliberalism and human
>> rights (3rd choice) SCHOOL X 2cs Cultural Differences (1st Choice),
>> Pandemics (2nd choice), Women's Rights (3rd Choice) SCHOOL X 3cs
>> Global Protest (1st Choice), Trade and Development (2nd choice),
>> Poverty 3CS (3rd Choice)
>>
>>
>> Will students for the various topics form their own groups for chat on
>> the NING site?
>>
>>
>> First, the Faculty Partners will pair up the groups, by seeing which
>> groups match up based upon the completion of the Spreadsheet. In most
>> cases this will result in complete groups of between 6-8 team members.
>> With each group having teams from no more than 2 different schools.
>>
>> Once these groups have been formed, we will alert our respective
>> classes and then encourage them to contact their team members. We
>> will need to be able to provide emails to the respective team members
>> once the groups have been formed.
>>
>> The student groups once formed will then set up a group site on NING,
>> or we can do this for them.
>>
>> thank you for any help you can offer to clarify the process for me and
>> my students.
>>
>> I hope this is clear, if not..let us know what areas are unclear. And
>> don't hesitate to ask, we who have done this a couple of time know how
>> daunting it can be the first time..
>>
>>
>>
>> Georgia
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> rodney
>>>
>>> Dear Partners:
>>>
>>> It is time that we begin to have discussions regarding group
>>> formation, type of group projects (service learning or case study)
>>> and topics coordination both among ourselves and with our students.
>>> To get this started, I have attached last year's list of topics as a
>>> way of moving forward. Please take a look and see if there are some
>>> that you would like to add. Once we finalize this, we can circulate
>>> it among our students to see what interest there is for particular
>>> topics that we can then try to pair up into teams. We will also need
>>> to designate specific Partners to be the lead coordinator for each
>>> group topic so that we have some means of controlling the chaos.
>>> Remember that we have set the following target dates.
>>>
>>>
>>> Here are our Group Project Dates
>>>
>>> Oct 7 - Student select topics from list
>>>
>>> Oct 14- Groups are finalized by your Professor, if groups are not
>>> complete already
>>>
>>> Oct 21- Topics are finalized by discussion within the group -- what
>>> to study and how the various schools / students will study it
>>>
>>> Oct 28- Students outline, division of labor, students also identify
>>> literature informative for their research
>>>
>>> Nov 4- Project design complete by the group -- at this point,
>>> everything should be prepared for realizing the project, i.e., the
>>> overall
>>> structure will be drafted, literature (al least preliminary) will be
>>> found, locations and concrete partners will be identified, etc. This
>>> marks the start of the fieldwork or research by students, if not
>>> already so.
>>>
>>> Nov 18- Intermediate report on the project
>>>
>>> Dec 2 - Final report on the project launched on the web and
>>> presented in the university class.
>>> Thanks...rodneyc
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> For more of my work please check me out at -
>>> http://redroom.com/member/rodney-d-coates
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> The song that lies silent in the heart of a mother sings upon the
>>> lips of her child..
>>> Kahlil Gibran
>>>
>>>
>>> [cid:image001.jpg@01CD9B0A.BB8CFD90]
>>>
>>> Rodney D. Coates
>>> Professor and Interim Director of Black World Studies
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>> Dr. Georgia Sitara
>> Sessional Lecturer
>> Departments of History,
>> Women's Studies,
>> and Social Justice Studies
>> University of Victoria
>>
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>
>
> Dr. Georgia Sitara
> Sessional Lecturer
> Departments of History,
> Women's Studies,
> and Social Justice Studies
> University of Victoria
>
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>
Dr. Georgia Sitara
Sessional Lecturer
Departments of History,
Women's Studies,
and Social Justice Studies
University of Victoria
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