TTT 11.11.2020 NowComment: Turning Documents into Conversations - Three Use Cases (Part 2)
Author: Teachers Teaching Teachers
https://youtu.be/llgH7JCqODk
This Wednesday (11/11) evening, we invite you to take a close look at three use cases of teachers finding solutions for connecting their students around short stories, essays, articles, and novels using NowComment https://nowcomment.com.
Come find out how and why these teachers are turning documents into conversations in different ways on NowComment.
- Sam Reed III, The U School, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- Anna Maine, Berkeley High School, Berkeley, California
- Natalia Navarro, Orange Cove High School, Orange Cove, California
Like last week, this week we've asked a few teachers to choose one student to focus on, and we will:
- Read through all of that student's recent comments on NowComment
- Then the teachers will riff a bit on the context for this student's writing, talking about their goals
- Finally, we will all think about creating a Youth Voices Skillz post to describe one of the habits of heart, mind, and work that this student is demonstrating.
On TTT this Wednesday, we'll do this with three students and look closely at how their teachers are using NowComment.
Transcript of the chat during our conversation:
From sreed : hello everyone
From Paul W. Hankins : Hey, Sam! I like your hat. I can never do them. But I sure appreciate them.
From sreed : I like to keep my head covered…
From Anna Maine : LOVE def poetry jams
From sreed : Brave New Voices
From Anna Maine : I think I found it??
From Anna Maine : https://youtu.be/jfZnOIoKh4E
From sreed : Jessica saw the Born a Crime stuff exciting , we will get there in Jan/ Feb.
From Paul W. Hankins : Joaquin Zihuantenejo: "This Is a Suit": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jfZnOIoKh4E
From Jessica Hernandez Speer : yes! I’ve got more people starting it just now.
From sreed : Jessica, what were you working on sidebar a minute ago?
From sreed : How are you Christina?
From Jessica Hernandez Speer : I was braiding a cord for some project my daughter is working on....
From Christina Cantrill : Doing well. Good to learn from you all about how you support literature convos .. of course thinking about digital discourse …
From sreed : we are in Philly, but these days everyone seems distance
From Christina Cantrill : … proud of Philly’s organizers these days. Folks are doing an amazing job.
From Anna Maine : https://www.youthvoices.live/guides/literature/replying2annotations/
From Christina Cantrill : Thank you Anna!
From Paul W. Hankins : Thank you, Anna. I wonder if you have worked with The Signposts with your students.
From Anna Maine : A colleague just shared a worksheet about signposts with me! I'd never heard of them as a student or as a teacher until recently
From Anna Maine : Any tips, advice or curriculum would be welcome
From Paul W. Hankins : I'm thinking the Six Signposts for Fiction would work nicely as Top Box Subject inviting the exploration of the signpost in the larger comment box.
From sreed : we have extreme… more A and More F…
From Anna Maine : @Paul sounds like a good idea!
From Paul W. Hankins : I teach half and half, but all at once. Through Google Meet. All of our students now have Chromebooks which allows for a little more collaboration between in-room and at-home.
From Anna Maine : It certainly seems to be widening the opportunity gap in general. A few exceptions, but overall that's what it seems like
From Anna Maine : There's a HS in LA named after this family!
From Jessica Hernandez Speer : We have a children’s book about it: “Separate Is Never Equal”
From Anna Maine : Oh yeah I've seen that too
From sreed : I say give as much grace a posible…
From sreed : Curious have others played with other annotation tools?
From Anna Maine : Google docs has a cool highlight add-on that allows you to sort things you've highlighted based on color. I've tinkered but haven't used it w students
From Anna Maine : I like Edpuzzle too but that's not strictly annotation
From sreed : has anyone used Kami…
From Paul W. Hankins : I've only used NowComment thus far. It's what we have come to since all of our students now have devices.
From Anna Maine : lmao @ sounds like a telethon
From Anna Maine : Really cool, Natalia!
From Paul W. Hankins : Too. Many. Tabs. Does. Not. Compute. Wink.
From Paul W. Hankins : Your Name is a Song
From Paul W. Hankins : How Alma Got Her Name
From Paul W. Hankins : The Name Jar
From Paul W. Hankins : Your Name is a Song is a powerful new book that explores the importance of pronunciation and not allowing others to change your name for their convenience.
From sreed : Kami has a robust interface, but Now Comment has its own competitive advantages
From sreed : Paul W . thanks for sharing
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