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Welcome to
District 30's Library
on NowComment
Ongoing Work
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District 30 NYSIP Grant: Learner Centered Initiatives
Join the conversations on the documents in this library, where we:
- Make our classrooms visible to each other
- Build a community of peers within our schools and across the entire district
- Share and discuss the invitations for learning we provide our students
- Comment on samples of our students' work from all disciplines
- Collect and discuss slideshows from webinars, articles, videos, and images for each other that support our work with students
NowComment makes it easy to have rich, engaging discussions of online documents no matter how large (or small) your class or collaboration group.
- NowComment is fast, powerful, and feature-rich: you can sort comments, skim summaries, create assignments, hide comments, reply privately, and much more
- It's free, a project managed by Paul Allison, a consultant for the NYC Writing Project and the NWP. Take 60 seconds to get an account now!
- Click here to see examples of. how youth are turning videos, images, and texts into conversations.
Key Features of NowComment
Free Accounts
Public and invitation-only private documents are both free during our "open beta".
Time Efficient
Interesting comments can be found quickly (they're tied to relevant document passages), and summary lines make skimming fast and easy.
Powerful
Each sentence and paragraph can have concurrent conversations, keeping discussions focused and on-topic.
Simple to Use
Our interface is intuitive, your documents are accessible wherever you are, and we handle all the configuration/maintenance.
Feature-Rich and Scalable
NowComment has the features to handle very large groups: moderation, subgroups, tagging, and more.
Read it Your Way
By default comments are off to the sid, but you can also display them in-line, or hide them, or sort them multiple ways.
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Embedding SEL into Curriculum
Deepening Understanding of CRSE
Clarifying Expectations through Co-creation
Assessment Types & Social Construction
Promoting CRSE by Making Tasks More Authentic
Promoting Self-Discovery Through Effective Feedback
Preparing for Quality Discussion
Building The Capacity to Lead
Recent Comments on Public Documents
I think YES if your article includes the video highlights of the 3 acts.
Complementary techniques:
1. Anchor links at top as a way to communicate what’s here
2. Maybe the video players are horizontally laid out (in a table?) so less vertical scrolling is needed.
Unlike the first 3 acts, I’m purposely not embedding YouTube media players with the interviews; I want people to go to the respective NowComment pages to also see the photos and transcript and be able to comments.
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