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  1. Promoting Student Collaboration Online
  2. Blog or a Discussion Board Can Be Done Collaboratively
  3. Promoting Student Collaboration Online
  4. Blog or a Discussion Board Can Be Done Collaboratively
  5. Create Guidelines for Students
  6. Collaborative Study Session
  7. Make Any Assignment a Collaborative One
  8. Collaborative Designs
  9. Collaborative Designs II
  10. Tips for Collaborative Assignments
  11. Slide 9
  12. Helpful Tips
  13. Strategies to Promote Collaboration
  14. Have additional questions?
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Promoting Student Collaboration Online By Bob Schoenberg Blog or a Discussion Board Can Be Done Collaboratively Teams of 2-3 students run it Respond to posts Encourage more discussion Instructor sets the criteria Promoting Student Collaboration Online By Bob Schoenberg Blog or a Discussion Board Can Be Done Collaboratively Teams of 2-3 students run it Respond to posts Encourage more discussion Instructor sets the criteria Create Guidelines for Students Some Things to Consider Number of posts will each student cover? Do they both respond to the same post? What is a proper response? Do they post, themselves? Collaborative Study Session Real time or asynchronous Tools for Real Time Tools for Asynchronous Great for Chapter Reviews Preparation for an Exam Accountability? Make Any Assignment a Collaborative One Paper Project Questions Essay Other Instructor sets criteria and guidelines Collaborative Designs For Papers Part One Part Two Student A Student B Part Three Students A + B Collaborative Designs II More Involved Collaboration Student A Student B A + B synthesized Tips for Collaborative Assignments Guidelines Criteria Have student color code their work. Provide Clear Instructions. Here is an example of three people collaborating on "The MOVE" assignment. In this example, all three people clearly shared their ideas. There are many ways of collaborating. As you can see, there are many ways of collaborating. But in each example it is very clear who said what. - Bob Stephanie, Tina, & Jackie Assumptions: 1. Sales will go up if they relocate 2. Their dwindling sales is due to location 3. That the purchase will be approved by the zoning board and that propane gas will save them money 4. They also assume that they will be able to build more on the new location 5. They also are assuming that people will rent the old place with out putting any work into it 6. Some of the Board members left due to thinking that it wasn’t going to work. 7. They are assuming that if zoning allows them to build in wetlands the neighbors will approve it. 8. The store owners are assuming that the customers in the suburbs are in need of a repair shop of this nature. If they are not coming to the city for these services then it most likely means they are accessing them elsewhere or not in need of them at all. 9. They are also baking on the fact that the board will approve their proposal to build in this area as well as additional roads, lighting and parking lots in an area that has wetlands. It also does not appear that they have done a very good cost/benefit analysis as the areas where they are ‘planning’ on saving money are not accompanied by any actual dollar amounts so there is no clear way to determine if their ideas will save them anything at all. 10. They are assuming that they will be able to increase prices and that people will pay above market value for their type of services Recommendations: 1. I recommend other tactics to increase sales. Once those ideas have been exhausted, or at least given a fair effort, then reconsider the move. 2. They could try renting a new building in the desired location to see if there is an interest. 3. Do a survey to see if there is a want or need for their type of store in the new area. 4. Do more research on zoning laws and restrictions before committing to build in the new area. 5. I think they need to also find out if the neighbors would sign an agreement to build in the wetland even if the zoning approves it. 6. They also should consider more advertising in the new location to see if people would drive to the business. 7. If profits are down it could because they aren't needed anymore people may be going to larger companies like best buy and other electronics stores. They should find out where the people go that are in the new location 8. I would recommend that they more closely evaluate the cost of relocation vs. renovation and marketing strategies. Anytime you are contemplating the idea of starting completely over again in a new location you should weigh the pros and cons of that several times. They need to look more into the future of the neighborhood they are currently in where they have been established for 30 years. Neighborhoods go through ups and downs and in the time it would take them to invest the time and money into a new location there could be a turnaround in their current location. There is also a great deal to be said for marketing strategies. By investing a smaller amount of money but using it in a more effective way they could achieve the same result rather than spending ten times that amount of money on a new location that may or may not work out. Helpful Tips Have students color code their work. Be very clear about requirement. Provide a set of guidelines/criteria. Reserve the right to issue individual grades if necessary. Require evidence of collaboration Strategies to Promote Collaboration Blog or Discussion Have students create a quiz Assign an on-going Class Project Study Session using Google Docs or a Wiki or Video using Skype Use of Video and Peer Review Make a regular assignment collaborative Have additional questions? Email me at: Bob.Schoenberg@umb.edu
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I . it . it . . . . . . the . personally think the US Center for innovative teaching the library . there were at UMass Boston email this possible . it's a pleasure to be here today . um what I'd like to talk about is a comparative study that implemented in the fall two thousand eleven of measuring the effectiveness of Discussion Board for online collaboration and my discipline is our history . um however I think you'll see a medal on the techniques are fairly universal on and that I use in the class and the resulting will will have some meaning to listen a one . Teaching that's before I get to specifics about Study I want to talk a little bit about the class itself because this particular class I think I'm certain . on or stay limitations but are characteristics that made Digital pulls up very important . I think and very useful for that particular class . the numbers show you will been around my Course site on the blackboard system of DEL dive into the specifics of the study talk about the results and conclusions I drew and then also speak briefly about something I'm doing currently with the cool art project . the pen . so the class itself . history one five visual imagery acrylic will introduction this is the a new class actually designed in the fall on at UMass Dartmouth where realign our jam add requirements and on compliance with the new university studies program . um so it gave me a kind of opportunity because the stupid you probably of all spirits yourself . it's somewhat easier to integrate the technology is that the Crown for rather than revising preexisting class I think so . that was some and I found of an official your work in and that the can a foundational level . the course itself on its essential introduction to what we call visual called your art history defining very Broadway from film visual media photography and on the way that the organization the coursework says it's the matter or conceptual and then at the end of each week on how to sort the store will case study in will see an example this one I show you on the course site . Nelson specific . the bell the course of . and Stanley taken as a jam Add porcelain were now calling university studies at UMass Dartmouth . most students ninety percent leased or freshman . and they are almost universally known art majors in fact we have a different sequence for those in the College of visual performing arts . and this is nevertheless import last that um it's a fairly large class not typically around seventy students and I should also add here I am a full time lecturer at UMass German so I have sometimes around two hundred students in this is a big part of my meditation upper looking at these schools and share all the others in the room are in similar situations . I think you know the Discussion Board is a very useful tool in managing Large classes on multiple classes especially my position lecture . it's a lovely show you around the course side um as I mentioned on working with on black for listening many of you are as as as well . the way that I tend to lay out my site is to make them sort of overloaded with visual imagery for obvious reasons . on . I also use the from males onto aka the kind of refresher when they go to visit that week's material these are usually images that we talked about in class so they have a sort of visual connection onto the Discussion hopefully maybe it's subliminal I don't know but least it's there and somewhere or another . and if the ascent of a typical week . um I don't even textbook a class at all key via remains and put them in my week to folder . I also have additional resources I like to put YouTube clips on NPR often has wonderful podcast about contemporary issues and in the apartment that doesn't there as well . and a Discussion Board which of talk about in a moment and also put the PowerPoint of my lectures as a PDF in each folder and I think this is the incredibly helpful to many the students because I don't see them with printouts of the PBL . and they often write on the back of images the notes from class and for views them as flashcards and something I've learned to do of relief from the students of over the last few two semesters . so Discussion Board . um . here's a typical Discussion Board on the particular question . them to comment on a body of work by a photographer named Richard Ms rock on to this amazing series of photographs being on the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina . and he has a very unique approach this Peekaboo crabs the text that was left on buildings often very desperate heart wrenching messages sometimes humorous messages in song . and so the question essentially ask them to measure the effectiveness of this relative to more traditional paternalistic approach on because this image is really black people . an immediate sense . also cut open ended questions and of course when this works well there is an organic dialogue that happens and I sort of trauma that is much like and by requiring students to not only posts but also responded least one time to a post of their Peer Norte to get full credit . and so sometimes these responses are then responded to sometimes they are not obviously I mean we have an actual conversation and in the next time I come in class . I like to mention what's going on the Discussion Board to create a kind of continuity . example of this is a group assignment this is more melodic will only talk about today . this is in reference to a film we watched called the Cabinet of Dr Tell Gloria to a German expressionist film which won its final know . on and we were talking that week about formal elements of cinema point of you editing lighting and so on . and I ask them to pick out a scene and to discuss the particular form or a lament in reference to that scene so I like the is fairly open ended questions . this was a group assignment though and so you know they got together in class and they collaborated on line which will show you in a moment . ah before presenting or posting their final post for that particular assignment . so this is the purpose farmer that I centered on for my study on its the week to assignment and frankly if I can do this again to something I would definitely change . um I mentioned that this is a freshman course I did this in the fall semester two of the second week of Berkeley their first college class ever . um and I really I think about foreskin my results a bit because as those of you know and work with blackboard know there's a steep learning curve without system and I think that shows up in my result will talk about that in a moment . essentially this time it them to . I assigned them a formal element whether B line color texture shape and then ask them to find an image a contemporary image from any source Relay . on posted and then discuss how that particular form element functions and that image in this is like a group project . a of a rubric setup your ensure everyone to really with with rubrics . you know they're sometimes time consuming to create them in the long run they say the lot of time on in the class of seven they you know you can fairly quickly could through an great is that match also said the going to have traditional Essay assignments and classes well but this is the way to get them riding on a regular basis on also have the grading you know manageable on online and on . another thing I do this . I is a mimio have ten say available Discussion post in a semester and I we ask them to do six or seven on of their choice so in any given week in a class of seventy you probably have forty or fifty to grant a subtle ways to cut back on your brain at the same time it allows them to continually write in process on as if it were a smaller ports . okayy . so let's talk a little bit about the comparative study that but I didn't the second week . basically what I did was to on Create uncontrolled group of offline versus online and had to and patience here because as I mentioned before the first time which all the scores . so I could really go back and look at previous results of the same assignments on from a prior semester which would've been nice and easy . so when I did instead was to divide the class itself into an offline or where I sometimes call analog group . and then also a digital group had them complete the same assignment and then on survey them essentially on their experience pad and a again it's that Assignment them I just mentioned on Assignment too weak too . one thing I wanna mention here . Hislop I does this is all geared around one of the central of learned objectives of the class which is this last sentence here . students will ply concepts Emily pleated images observed outside of the classroom so that nothing I like about the online platform for this particular class because it allows them to grab images from the other everyday visual environment whether the websites photographs journalism advertisements and you know make them to literally make that connection on between these these concepts in their everyday can visual experiences . just to read this is the assignments on their and groups of four to six their assigned a specific formal element . um then they collaborate on a short paper and also why setup are dedicated discussion boards for each group on the my courses site so of Windows group members on using the grid manager function can access the Discussion Board . um so there collaborating Online it's that interesting to see that actually is a professor to argue all to get a really good sense of who was working and who isn't . on and on the old playgroup they are collaborating in face to face environment . presumably through emails well . ah but do not have access to that Discussion Board . also they're forced to go to library to find and manage photocopy a turn and and alongside with a hard copy of their assignment . so . everything almost essentially takes place off line versus the on line . group . what I did at the end of this assignment is distribute these surveys to my project is yes it's measuring the effectiveness but also measuring the Student perception of working in Online vs offline on group so the first question and I had are still want to fly here fly be in the master are very much so one being the worst . the first question simply ask do you feel the work in all fly in the CNN has helped you to more closely connect the material from class your everyday fish will rent is essentially how well she think this this uhh Publish Butler in objective I mentioned previously . second it still is no you look at images from everyday life in a more critical way because of this year . and then the last question pass them on your face in their experience in other classes with a have preferred to work in the other format which I think it's an interesting result . the survey for the all flying through the online group essentially have the same thing but you know from the perverse perspective now on to the online on format help you to connect the through from class to be outside and so . the results . um you can say is that in the upper has here been told by all of my friends in math and science that I should do away with the outliers know have a much more dramatic difference here . I suppose that's true but to think for the sake of transparency of of what the and . um you can see that the average is there is a a small odd difference between all the questions but a consistent up truck friends for the on line . on and walk and talk a man in a moment about what I see in the Online Spears icon of polarization right the people to onto not like the on line . do not like it very much . they're kind of spread out and you don't really see that the hem an overreaction in the offline group and I think this has to do with that second week of the first experience of a blackboard . this is a little more legible think an in ground format . again it's not overwhelming . um but I do think it's interesting that it's consistent across all three questions on and especially the last question were students . not surprisingly really wanted to work in the online format and those that did not want to work in the all line up group and vice versa . so um some conclusions . like to suggest that from that perspective the digital format increase the overall effect of this assignment as I said earlier by a small but consistent margin . and I to through three main conclusions from the data relative to their offline counterparts more students in the online groups believe that online tools to help them accomplish to learn objective of the unit walked away with the impression that the game as a whole was successful . and preferred working with their format over the alternative . she also has here on the grades which I use the same rubric for of course both groups were also slightly higher in the online format and I also found interesting enough . on all of the online assignments were turned in on top which it was always a shopping Any any situation . where's that was not true in the all one proved so . note these are obviously things I can silly measure but it seems a logical inference that the online format helps them to organize stay on track communicate in a way that sometimes the offline . the is no question in all . all in all the online yes yes . . I would say consistent with the usual class I think there were . um H for some free time each side and I would say if memory serves correct to three groups of the offline that weren't there to light . yet . and by the way I don't like it these groups are based on their last names a purely random in terms of who was and which proves it's not like one group out of the . the more conscientious students with snot not purposely . okayy . Wellington talk about the polarization and if you look at the data from the online groups ought there are much more in the averages are higher there are much more of negative responses that bottom category and this Relay Jared's with my of my own experience of interacting with the students in the class because I'm consistently surprised at the new wide spectrum of computer literacy among on freshman on some stencil I think we have a major reaction of students can just sort of inter into the virtual spear this is where they're comfortable we really don't have to do much instruction and all the go on and there were some students who really struggled with blackboard . I found myself showing students how to attach files and things that I had assumed you know on they would be able to do on and so that was coming I opener for me next time I teach this class I realize I need to do more in terms of teaching them how to navigate the fly and showing them how to do these be somewhat basic things they were a minority of students but nonetheless can see I think it's reflected in result that some of them will really struggled with the online format and can get she really enjoyed on the benefits that the owners to . okayy . please just . the good part hard question because what I did was out the first day of class type brought the slide up on on the projector here and I walked through when I show them here is a Discussion Board tears where where where you will post up . Kelly that wasn't enough light you know so I and that's a very good question . . yes that's what I did end up yet . um and again I don't know if it's a matter all to know that first day in many some students are naughty and enroll them in the they missed in the new Outback and fortitude it's always hard to say . um but that's a very good question and on and some have talked with my colleagues about how being a freshman part of the orientation familiarize themselves with the would walk word seems very logical because most classes use it . and of course he may pay to take class time to do the sorts of things but my mom unless you kind of half to in certain situations so . good question Some they'll have to think about . um also I think the group format . winds itself to student teaching other students how to use that in a much more fluid and crawl with less painful way to me and standing up here and showing them about something I really wanna think about how to teach on the system itself . ok . I want to also mention something I'm doing with this club simultaneously . maybe it does there are all familiar with the toolbar project it's really an amazing on online resource especially for our historians the mining everyone who has even a passing interest in an art . when I first did this class there were only a remnant dozen museums on toolbar . if you've read the press lately um I think there's awkward to fifty or so now . most of the major museums around the world are now on this virtual museum site that tool has made may live . and it's an amazing experience and you can see of lecture to can actually where you are but it only offers a portion of the museum . but essentially you navigate through the space using the same interface as to will maps you can literally walk through the museum soon and on particular works and create slideshows in conjunction with your experience of the museum and the resolution of these images are an amazing um you consume and to such an incredible detail on that note it's worth are feeling from Students perspective . so I devised in assignments up all the virtual museum for and what I did was use this as a cup final example a class where students were passed to integrate the concepts um all the class integrate formal analysis and literally walk us through the museum and stopped at a predetermined number of of painting . on and say you can actually create a slideshow here and so once you stop in front of the van Gogh painting that you see in front of you this is the MoMA New York . um you can actually bring that image up very very very close and see the very intricate detail of the brush work of some amazing school . and so after that assignment I then had them to a formal analysis paper which I've done another pasta some compare the results and that has been very start line in terms of on Students mastering this concept to form one ounces because one thing fast and into the gulag of virtual to for is to include a formal analysis as the can of walkers through installed but these paintings . and you know it's pretty obvious I think why this is so much more engage in on the students are much more active in this sometimes they get very the actor formal presentations of the museum for that sort take on persona is and what not . on and in the process they really internalize on the larger ideas behind it so . I'm exploring further haven't really been a fine lines result but I'm seeing on a big improvement in actually looking at the to die tuitions at the end of the semester this was something that they opera consistently praised him in the evaluations a while . one project is one of um thanks the IBF IBO in this is the color UMass start meant to I did this is part of a grant of working along my colleagues in on the campus and we had a mentor like this was for EPO professor from nursing and another professor Mike unfair English she was doing to miss him or her class and we met on a periodic which were out semester we actually deserve one another spouses are gained access when the numbers Course sites and that was obviously a very beneficial on experiences while . so what we to questions after both presentations were . now . Mr what the for if anyone has a question I'm happy to ask him . what's a good read . he . yes . all quotes it's on the my courses . um I really prefer that for variety of reasons Number wine it means I never lose the paper . I haven't done yet of course women thought invited onto and that on and I have and therefore semesters to calm me now is to keep all those papers in the ballroom my file cabinet my dear within a kick to the for one year just case of the greatest kid in you really want to worry about that when you have all of your Assignments uploaded onto my courses their there they're sensible and sell so on . and also you don't have that issue of students and I've turned it into . on that day and yet you don't have that that's happened to me a few times it's pretty much black and white . well . yes yes . yes . yes I do up your review on the discussion boards as the first phase of one of the papers in the class . um and so they have to comment on to other of papers as part of the assignment . and then they turn in their final through the Assignment portal on my courses but that would be interesting I'll note that if the format will will allow you do that but that would be an interesting . yes . . . good question as we all want an all white but for the groups themselves by wild them to choose . the . Ed right . real women many of them when no one did alone with no worse click on one group . you know . proportions . yes . the . yes . who . yes . what Judge armed with departmental such for every year we center on certain concepts certain abilities we want our students to achieve but I'm a graduate and we look at all of our majors papers with a smaller apartment where we can we can get done at the hospital departments . and yes critical thinking and writing skills for one else's with another one and they're consistently issues that we are always sort of in our head against the wall trying to figure out a way to construe above all disciplines and talk to my colleagues . so what I think this allows us to do is to have them right in and thinking critically on a regular basis in a large class which is very hard to do um especially in noone's being told by a four time lecture like myself who has a lot of students on the other fairly easy to grade and yet as I said that it forces them to process information to formulate and to writing granndmother filly finished polished prose that comes later . but continually thinking critically about information from that we on a regular basis . I think that's important to throw the best thing about Discussion Board to and I'll be Frank and I scored pretty easy on the discussion boards to keep open the door to the kind of fluid free form format where you can throw out ideas that might be ridiculous or absurd and then figure out why their ridiculous or ups are on cell a see saw for my rubric you really can't get worse than seventy . on on on Discussion Board and I tell them to can want this to be opened . place mixture into the as yet . . yes yes . yes you know . why . it's all . see . all . yes . I'll . all . it's . Europe South boyfriend . um what is the upper division side to use Discussion Board three upper division classes . um so it's a very very good point . groups . on . yes I've . yes write write write . good point about what which will be when we're in the system and email most of the swelling didn't whatever your level . so . the students . yes . that would be a very good Sunday . I'm so curious about the new platform Island . then on but it will be interesting how much of a transition that will be . yet . . . and . . yet . all . . Tristan oak . why oh I was waiting for my evaluations to give me some insight into bout . and I find it telling that it did not make it to the final evaluation by the end of the semester intimate maybe optimistically that signified that they sort of came to terms with the format a course of the semester by the end of the semester was no longer the issue that it was and that this is the problem doing this and we to but I now realize um you know if I'd done at the final week of the semester which probably would be good for other reasons . um I'm . I wonder . I would have the same issues but it's telling that they did not . he didn't find the same color from the final evaluations for the for the class . now when my colleague came in to observe my class when the things we did is in the Instructor left the room and she kind of talked to them about their experience on because you know students are much more willing to do open up to the professor was not can give them a grade . and then told her that they like the slime and and and whatnot but they found the blackboard system difficult to navigate . um which I'd I can kind of understand that we to on but like I said because it wasn't in the final valuations . I think that maybe they come to terms with the system by the end of of the semester . a point . yes that's what friend now . just . can . I'm . four . so . all . yes . . he . hundred . baseball calm white is Facebook with artistry club will face of thought which is very useful I'm assignment in my upper division class were asked him to take on a persona one of the theorist and friend other fear is them and talk about why they friend Mr to the fears of but I do is to for discussion and maybe for selfish reasons because it's so parking for a . special in a large huge closet when dealing with the roof but the one the one benefit of one block for the role of discussion I completely understand where you're coming from or something so natural about Facebook on but it's very hard . I'd tried one time I was doing control fallen for every name and trying to define that um . but I completely understand the motivation for doing that I consider twitter to um although I have mixed feelings about the text limitations . persons post . on . yet . . who . . it's . right . . I . . she . why to the killings to go Sunway I mean I send them this is part my course but as the gigantic generic PDF that the court gives are given the contact information for CIT us into floor computer people One whatnot but you know if you have a good way to a new tube video obviously that might actually be washed about them but some very good advice on with the very first week of classes . yes . who . okay okay . her . the the . . just . . . . . the . . the . . . . . the . . . . . . the it's the . I . . the . . well . it . so Bob fifteen or twenty minutes is to show you some strategies that I have developed for actually Promoting Student Collaboration Online saw my ass first of all holiday you are using either a Discussion Board or a block and body . ok the kids who wanted very easy way of incorporating some collaboration to classes is to the use of a blogger or Discussion Board . Liza excellent interactive tools in themselves but to make it into Collaborative school you have to go one step for . it and what I do is I usually have teams of students maybe two or three . she like to build the on three because it just multiplies complex that would you do that but if I like up to the West me well . I in the let them choose who they won a war with or they don't use by a certain point I look to someone full of . a and what their tax useful one way is to run the discussion going on the block now I supply the question of the common which is usually based upon the readings that they have to do their job is to respond to different posting . and to promote more discussion because I teach critical thinking . they also have the additional responsibility of promoting critical thinking so when they get response that has to be one the substantial a kid to say all that was a great post and will like it . you have to say why they liked it . in related to the reading of posts and shops into a Mormon just failed will respond . what does that they have to do in the other thing is to mostly Encourage more discussion in one of the ways that they can do that very easily is by asking questions now . they commented to the first . posts that they dance . now the couple of the issues that have . as Instructor you have to be a lead . and that is . how you want them to Respond to posts which had to talk about but also how many published you want them to answer you want them to into your initial posting you posted . do they both posts that they both into the same way these all the issues that you need to Assignment manse and the clarity you can be about this the more likely it'll be you get what you want to students . if you live bait about it than that they useful transposed to confusion you start getting them on a bike email so we mean by this which I do this is to that . so why like I like take the whole . enroll in the class which lets a the twenty students to keep closely allied . but enhance I'm about ten sites they eat for like six to eight responses per student . so this to students running the blonde and a silky a unique issue for like six to eight new spot . you may get even more and very limited space but some weeks not everybody does that night so that's how the Aboriginal with reduced to them to go free . so that they only have to do least that much then it's up to them to award Make between each other . who is going to do while and I don't object if they both do . if they both into the same post a . but I want and in that every single one was just outstanding . not every post is going to get to creep of responding to a who and why . lot . most of posts will they respond to some may not be because even when I do it . I was finally post I respond to the ones that catch my are the ones that say something of substance the chalet just post something and they survey the just reiterated when someone else that's that area much in common for me except well can enhance the will of the tongue more about it . then cut them to do things like that . me and I provided was in Guidelines Pala to check off list so that they know what this post to do in the family questions they can actually . on the is basically what they build . any questions on that . so when you have a Discussion Board using black lot of Loyola block using any number of law free wanted to get . it's a pretty easy way of taking a regular assignment and turning into blabber one . in what happens instance take this very seriously because they're reflecting them interacting with the pianist in one of the with the job . so oftentimes they'll go back in the election of the reading reading it's because they know one of twenty into something that they know talking about so it's a good way of really no reinforcing the material getting more about the actual subject matter . on the other side of the is the collaboration of the whole freaking working with somebody else . exchanging ideas listening to different point of view that they may not get if they didn't and now . and that's whether the use of collaboration you have two people on even more . the exposed to different ideas different viewpoint to mine than ever consider yourself . so that's the of a pot of from what happened to me do this little stunt . guess . yes yes he's a bachelor . but you could deal with one of as well . . total of don't yell before you actually do this assignment has instructed me to think about the criteria used evaluate students and what you want them to do it again . it's worth repeating . the clarity allow the Clarion can be what you want them to do . the better it will be in terms of results again so I give them actual Jack what's . and a kind of have redone and system I posted on the I use mostly a Wiki been fun using black what I would post a black one but also the email him is well click insert it again . and that way if it posted they can always go dad . and on . once they it today . they have and the only path to if they don't look at and it's . on them but the guy was a very very helpful because without that they really don't know into which . I don't have them posted so slow as I put a question of common on the Discussion Bowen . in Eric why everybody in this tune to a posting in response though students . they all have into question . if a wine over the to students can Respond shows books but they do have to answer on the manage them from a pot of the time . they are which is really easy to do . we ask only hear our phone line which teaches anybody . we have the science teachers . they will even sell on this works for any subject because . many times students want to study and different face to face class they might get together will move Audio partner in Study face to face but they can do the same thing Collaboratively . now they have two choices they can either work in real time or they can work and asynchronous time . if they work in real time they'd probably the using a tool such as when bar which is an blackboard in the new sky . they can even use the Google phone which is on a bunch email . how what you say when the mind standing space but now offers Video and all you can do . and since many students already on Facebook that might be the way that they might want to do . all I if you have students working in different time zones the just the I want to read to students most in the professionals working during the day with family . it's very hard for them to corneal of another person real time . so many then choose to use in asynchronous Tools Center's global documents or a Wiki page . I simply prayed a PhD student wiki . and give them permission to make no when teacher of the pages and editors well so it's questions like one student . may into question . the other Student maker take the questions on the Baltic or less in question . most textbooks . if you using the textbook . have a Chapter radio which many professors will scientists coming . so it's a great way for men to prepare for ten straight day le just decided the chapter . by looking at the Study question . or you can actually give them question to answer to use to think about . they key is whether one do in real time and one and two . to me how they wanted . I don't really do care how they do Islam's the go at which leads to the question of accountability . Heidi another really going . well the very simple way that you can find out when it's actually very useful thing to do . if you have them do summary of what they've done and II when asking becoming okay going to study with what method is to use what a jam like about that now that is another technology that might work better for you . what would you recommend for Students isn't really that was viable to make viable to them and is liable to the US students because they can read this and I can post it . and then don't say well you know white . with is really useful because you can talk in real time and can use the whiteboard but is also the technology thing I like using a sport that oh at whatever they come up but it is interesting . it's interesting material to get him and is useful in time for . so I've set up baby on Collaborative Study Session . he and it doesn't matter what subject to Teaching um . anything . particularly if it's if it's a type of subject with a tomato can glory of the terms of the need to use in every subject has that some just went of Mormon of this is so useful and body so I can study online rather than having to go in person because of my classes . the low country sometimes even different in different countries so it's almost impossible students to get together face to face . occasionally you get some oil UMass student can actually physically on campus but most the time . they're all over the place in the will to on campus to schedule to from time . the question bought into that . what is he and Kate Any Assignment all and came into a Collaborative One . but the Paper Project questions whatever . and then be the key areas that you as an instructor need to set the criteria and guidelines so highly of the night Greater evaluator paper . in part determine what you need to do on the page . now when we talk a little about Paper because . but in gradual level within a Nebraska level . there are a number of professors who would sign papers do so the question is you never done this before class late . Holly and I determine who was doing was and who stand One honeymoon and Braden violated the kids young and who was doing it very easy way to determine that happened column told what to do . then you know . I is a a a one per cent in the traditional black on the other person chooses another column . you can visually see this which I shall you in a minute how easy this despite the lot . but there are many ways students can collaborating doing the paper . some might do the first pot themselves . now this kid maybe the second part themselves may be the third pot of synthesized it together . that's one way . or you could have a more all lah but type of response one should make is one thing . send it to Student tasting be critiqued attended fact do name and student the assignment they can anyone what I don't get how they do and I to supply them of some Guidelines Magee I get into model . and I have collaborative assignments from previous classes so they can but he loves to do . but the important thing is two things one . they need to color code it because the need to see who was and what am I who require them to submit the collaboration . that the doing before the turn in the final product on the distinction the finished product . and I just didn't . Holly arrived at that conclusion . so they yellow that they've used a chat line . Tell want to just give me a transcript of the of the . no chatroom . if they actually got on the phone using cool when bar on Vista members are on Facebook whatever . gimme a summary of what she said who said what we did what who we to do one . so wanna see the Collaboration action required it's Alito's and some think it is color coded into law this is them from Collaboration IA powers to the actual Collaboration semi then transfer . and so they get map with of including . the pro IRA war . before the turn in the finished product so I can see that the doing is very helpful because the fight scene that once it is doing more than the other . and it's not in the fifty fifty but I get like a ninety ten percent this a problem . and yes I will contact you know falling well to SuzyShe whom one would be like ten percent of what the outcome the only did ten percent of the war in no way we have a valid explanation may be what they can choose right or significant but ABC the collaboration . not wanting to see the Tulloch all in one see how you ride that out of that mix come about . so whether to pay for Project questions Essay . um I actually have for a project . last semester I had my Students Create quits . in item number of education majors in my class the old one that can be easily do this all time low will move in and out that I was in the new is very great challenging because they had a duo from a critical thinking perspective survey panel of presumptions in love or friendship references that . techniques that we do incredible thinking the thought of a re challenging in the or no on Dillinger was on like a simple like five question quiz of multiple choice . but it was a very challenging assignment and down . many of them said that like the really coast of BC especially education majors may convert counting . don't Ollie on one collaboration . so here's some examples of um how they differ Designs can work like the papers . again I'm to date is one thing to do that is another and then they synthesize the pots together . this is just one model . this emphasizing its really the demo in file that but of collaboration because this is where like . they have to combine . both the a warped into one . in Ontario I do this on the very first time I give my students to resettle definitions of critical thinking . create their own . and then get together of some the of sun wind and sympathize that definition to one one two separate definitions I want one . they can combine them into one definition . but that's what they need to build in and not just individually giving one . and this is where like it's a high level critical thinking and high level of synthesize and comes in because now you to take what you did look a what somebody else did and work together and merge back into one document in this case into one definition to this the you know quite a bit of give and take a negotiation and back an offer well above to do this not what we do that solve the my Lai can be done to email them to move about and I like it how they do it I let them to switch over the cocoa them . I don't know the climate use a specific method was to come alive . and they go in and it's very action because T T I get new definitions of critical thinking . haven't teaches cost a years now and it's thousand the that this only differ ways of defining a cake with discipline . and when they get creative in used own ideas and combined over students I get yet another definition is a valid definition so . amazing the number able to do that . his mother . model of . collaborating different designs . this is the More Involved one where . still a something get it to be a student the box and use it am a huge to do individual things but can they keep going back and forth in time a critique of John's work . after the demo at the end they find the combined the to synthesize into the finished onto . now for Paper or you could get a paper that in three sections . once it is the first pop second students a second pot . the firefighters the men both from amount of that . or they could get more involved the more creative and actually do a little bit of each . often times like student will icon of the paper and send it to the other student of critique it and then now add something will one day at something I'll see that because it's color coded so in the middle the power of will be another cents by the and students really really need to say I'm so into them . but this is just one of many models and I don't limit them to any particular model . I just Provide if an example for them to do . in what the guy im available to do is to coach the team if they get into problem now is that Teaching Molly and do this like want to play . so it's not something one among bothered by the class to students to be a problem can help us . and again want to read to students of the kind of the more experienced moment or about things but rarely have I had to do this I think of the twenty . why because to have one teen who going astray . getting all these emo . he is taking too much time with mom and I can write the email . too long till we get a fifteen minute session on line include the whole thing and fifteen . to use . so this was so . the second . . like for no collaborative assignments again in one emphasize the guidelines in on repeat myself with willing want to be clear about what you want students to do because that becomes your criteria for what you going to be evaluated for grading . and then you color code have them color code the war . that's not all province of who did want to live you can tell I had to students it will can I say . I'm not speaking in put my name before the paragraph and I tried and it now because I make it down the bottom of page and changes . and speaking of color code and went way scientists that they do and how . and they do in the next solutions . the and the instructions on what he provides a clear list of instructions or check with checklists work will good because then they can check off as they go through an email address by criteria for grading . they know exactly what was in love with that element may ask . this is what I want One Paper again . that's going to launch it than that . and they have a list and they can just work on that way . and that takes only guess what wasn't looking for column . finally can sleep very clear . so . you can see a bit different colors in this is not in PDX me the way that which is very good looking at this time I actually three different students . nice ones in the middle column . he is looking at this that they all did contribute to this . on this assignment . the sun actually was . given a scenario of a business that wanted to move to the cobbler . the and the students had identified all the assumptions the business owners made about with the suburbs . and then get a hold recommendation on what they thought they should do . analysts for all kinds Assumptions local friends and rock and viewpoints that identifies well but just looking at this visually you can be the different colors vary in the Title industry . ok I can see that you know or think that dissipated and all the time and what you not seeing here are some of the preliminary work into it . Collaborative discusses that they had which they also include the sky . this is the finished product and um this was done with great student received with great you can get collaboration going on they go back Boston . this is the fly without . so any question about how you take any . Assignment you can turn into a Collaborative One whether the a paper on a project . or something else this all . basically and it's time you get . if you are doing any kind of on line teaching one that the hybrid classroom and carefully outline you can take in the assignment and ten and two Collaborative One . just thinking about what you want students to do . a and . there's many many the for miles look lab rationed but the thing is to be clear about what you want them to do and then they can do . so a couple of the Helpful Tips their on again about color coding . the clear about the assignment . the requirements . all this info on what amounted to it . I always reserve the right to issue individual grades if next . as my personal philosophy about collaborative work . a group of students in one person simple and no way I don't think it's fair to penalize the entire group because one person . you can't control somebody else's behavior . so if he actually is really messing up . and then dragging down everybody what I tell my students is what you do with your suppose to do I know so that was mine I ways of interacting students if they do that but I was while I have had an issue where . whatever student couldn't anticipate and Collaborative powder that parcel from whatever . so in the case tell you to discover great but I let them know that I can do this because that takes the pressure off them still work to do the job but they don't happen to be penalized because one person doesn't do the upon the project . so . I'll do two separate individual great in that case . Molly had to do this once or twice in the inning is to Teaching NASA may do very often . what I like let's does not want to put her out from the beginning Suzy's splattered it but be aware that no II as the instructors to the right to do on issue and individual great . he and I have my students to a long term project . well Fred week of the semester and they go splash the ninth to tenth week . so this a lot of work into doing a divide into segments interfaces . me and that they do a lot of the all Collaboration I probably do more Collaboration most most instructors . in interstate my dentist said that they actually have more connection more interaction . the in my Collaborative classes that can face to face classes and I commend them and because . and though I've taught face to face classes whose would always get the same play with even with the twenty my kitchen in Iraq and wouldn't talk to them . . yes right . yes . yes . it's interesting thing . on . one thing is that you cannot reserve the right to issue so brave and then that . Reviews you the flexibility to do that and students know that this problem and although the pianist can see the bike and is selling . well this is Suzy using team approaches its nominee McCain files not the whole the palm is not punished because of that . that one person may be terminated but then the to punish the entire department because one person file not only on the west of King Stephen and one civilian life . so I know that filed for slping assembly and punching a hole to because one person . it . different types of things you can do I've talked about some of these but there's other things you can to the side to Study Session wider . you can do Aquarius Online project . um . you can use video for period you I do have my students to appear review of the collaborative project . each team gets to of the aisle in of the team . I haven't use video knows that as an option but I'd you know of some like Island to do some video . he and that brings the whole of a level of opportunity when I'm doing . video . this is the whole the media . I don't require a bunch does one use of the can . so you can take Any Assignment intending to Collaborative Assignment into the any questions area sitting and thinking she won all my subject out the blue one that software on the Collaboration I'd be happy to it's this question you that like after the class that they have a really burning issue of the happenings from . you have one . . I'm . the squad . six thirty with it . it . yes yes . a couple show papers I have them do this like the person reflection using the techniques that they've learned in this a few other things that they do love . I haven't to an annotated bibliography that they to Assignment silly and our individual times . and above . . it Respond question . yet . I did as an actual project last semester that was like the class project which last week . they're a well a head set of tools they can use the ones I've mentioned there are others and they can use any feature of from any the clever to like Blackboard or approval document so Wiki whenever . and it's interesting that like no certain students have a preference only they did the IOC do is come to what you have to put it upon . I have to become two of the to do if anything is lot of time to get students that in experimental served Technologies others . our clients with that and then put them together . and then they wanted to be out . so when I go that are like from a class project I Assignment upon will they . anything else I let them to smoke because the class project is an ongoing thing to take several weeks to do . I spent some time looking at the a background what the majors what they're going to do a survey in the class that's them . and I look at that inflation try and match them up and away . sometimes if I have students in foreign countries are much too confident of to get . it depends . I don't always . what somebody the same agent with the same age . sometimes they'll deliver leap but inexperienced use of my line of the when . get . . a . it . I . . . I . class but it gets a long process . I will wait until NW and phrases they can the Golden be I'm sure the phrase unless I approve it . because only show that run right track . he was acquitted in a lot of us criteria that they haven't done that and they could just jump ahead and do it . I would have to files to format . our only want to do one of the whole big picture most them find what she's if you break things down . wounds healed short term deadline . just giving the whole thing and said ok go and do it does come overwhelming it that way . my experiences then it works better if I'd break it down a small assignments an assault on one want or time to finish product is the quiz orange some cases it was . I have been doing him . many training program something I change it . and on Tuesday . . . it's . oftentimes they do because song again and working with and graduate students would do in critical thinking them in each of the subject is that you have to really listen to other people can exchange ideas with them . so it really enhances the class but yet I sometimes see just like you do this of that . well lot of time evolves as Collaboration goes on . they get better . so I sat in the beginning of the semester with simple things that do like the definition of thinking . you have to . most of those on the a level of sophistication becomes much greater and they get more into sympathizing latitudes . to my comp . the point . I . . it . I . all . . it . all . when . . faculty member Rome . though cuddly as the leaky . did I was this interesting ideas to shut early years in which the duo . when questioned song you can speak to the you can also he will be happy to help the piano question about how you do Collaboration a specific subject I can be happy to be the some ideas to do . the . . they . . . this is common . on you . you know . the . . .