Thank you, Rodney, for all your help and for your patience.
g
> No you did it correctly. As the administrator who posted the blog you get
> the notification. You may simply advise the student that there are
> responses. R
>
> Rodney
>
>
> Substitutions, typos, and etc curtesy of smart technology that makes dumb
> mistakes.
>
> On Oct 7, 2012, at 4:03 PM, "gsitara" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
>> 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
>>>>
>>>> [log in to unmask]
>>>
>>>
>>> Dr. Georgia Sitara
>>> Sessional Lecturer
>>> Departments of History,
>>> Women's Studies,
>>> and Social Justice Studies
>>> University of Victoria
>>>
>>> [log in to unmask]
>>
>>
>> Dr. Georgia Sitara
>> Sessional Lecturer
>> Departments of History,
>> Women's Studies,
>> and Social Justice Studies
>> University of Victoria
>>
>> [log in to unmask]
>
Dr. Georgia Sitara
Sessional Lecturer
Departments of History,
Women's Studies,
and Social Justice Studies
University of Victoria
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