TTT 11.04.2020 NowComment: Turning Documents into Conversations - Six Use Cases (Part 1)
Author: Teachers Teaching Teachers
https://youtu.be/Wy2EtGYzYLY
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This Wednesday (11/4) and next Wednesday (11/11) evening, we invite you to take a close look at six use cases of teachers finding solutions for connecting their students around texts, images and videos using NowComment https://nowcomment.com.
Come find out how and why these teachers are turning documents into conversations in different ways on NowComment.
- Kiran Chaudhuri, Harvest Collegiate High School, New York, New York
- Paul Hankins, Silver Creek High School, Sellersburg, Indiana
- Jessica Hernandez-Speer, P.U.L.S.E. High School, Bronx, New York
- Anna Maine, Berkeley High School, Berkeley, California
- Natalia Navarro, Orange Cove High School, Orange Cove, California
- Chris Sloan Judge Memorial Catholic High School, Salt Lake City, Utah
We've asked a few teachers each week 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 desribe one of the habits of heart, mind, and work that this student is demonstrating.
On TTT this Wednesday, we'll to do this with three students and look closely how their teachers are using NowComment.
Join us this Wednesday evening, November 4th at 9E/8C/7M/6P at https://teachersteachingteachers.org where we will post a link to our Zoom conference.
From Peggy George : Hi everyone!
From Peggy George : We’re about to announce our results!!! :-)
From Peggy George : on pins and needles!!!
From Peggy George : AZ voted for Biden and our democratic senator, Mark Kellly won!!!! Very happy!!
From Peggy George : yes!!
From Chris Sloan : Hi Peggy
From Peggy George : Hi Chris :-)
From Peggy George : Looking forward to this! Real world application!!
From Peggy George : haha!
From Peggy George : are we able to see his link on NowComment?
From Peggy George : It’s private to his class. Not authorized to access.
From Peggy George : That teacher is very busy!!!! 168 posts!!!
From Peggy George : Thank you for asking Paul! I would love to see the student posts!!!
From Peggy George : awesome!!!
From Janet Ilko : Paul, I am so glad you finally got the opportunity to dive in here, it is so great!
From Janet Ilko : I like this better than Playposit, it is more conversational and less teacher directed. More self selected talk.
From Peggy George : https://nowcomment.com/documents/240008
From Peggy George : very impressive, thoughtful comments!!
From Peggy George : love that excitement about using NowComment!!
From Chris Sloan : Original assignment: https://judgememorial.instructure.com/courses/2257/assignments/44415
From Peggy George : Thanks for the link Chris!
From Peggy George : he’s hilarious!!
From Peggy George : I didn’t realize we could sort by first or last name :-) Great!
From Janet Ilko : I think the commenting is so much richer this year. I shared the comment frames with our English department. It is helping. I also wonder if being in distance learning we will see more conversations and interaction.
From Peggy George : I like that process Chris!
From Peggy George : 3 comments sound good! Any objections from the students?
From Chris Sloan : No objections. Either that, or I don’t listen to their objections
From Peggy George : love it!
From Peggy George : good one Paul!!! a true “veteran” teacher!
From Peggy George : do they really do that in senior essays for colleges? make up elaborate stories??
From Paul Allison : https://www.youthvoices.live/activity/p/94884/
From Peggy George : Anna, you look really tired tonight! Are you ok?
From Anna Maine : I was up way too late trying to follow the election, so I am pretty exhausted. But thanks for checking in!
From Peggy George : That’s not easy to do on a phone! Good for her.
From Peggy George : Paul do you reply to those comments?
From Peggy George : I love that point Paul!! She’s leaving a bread crumb for other students to follow and respond.
From Peggy George : Good Anna! Hang in there! It was a very late night last night and it continues tonight.
From Peggy George : I’m very inspired by what all of you are doing! Your students are so lucky to have you as their teachers!
From Chris Sloan : Thanks Peggy!
From Peggy George : are any of you participating in https://nanowrimo.org/
From Peggy George : Young Writers Program: https://ywp.nanowrimo.org/
From Janet Ilko : Peggy, I shared it with one student who I work with who is writing a book now… she is exploring it tonight. We will see.
From Peggy George : for writers under 18
From Peggy George : awesome Janet! I’d love to hear about it if she decides to give it a try :-)
From Peggy George : good point Natalia!!! getting sparked by other students
From Peggy George : not yet
From Peggy George : AZ is supposed to announce at 9:00 pm—it’s 8:00 pm now
From Peggy George : we’re on a roll now :-)
From Janet Ilko : I have learned so much!!
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