Title links to the peer responses given to one of my students on her first story. It’s a long scroll, but I think it’s a good example of the kind of flexibility that Web logs offer when it comes to giving feedback and having it all in one place for the author to muse over. The next step is for her to reflect on that feedback, come up with a list of specific changes, and create a plan for revision. One thing I realized with this example is that with the four responses, the author has a great deal of material that she can use for improving her writing, material that I think would have been lost had it come in the form of oral feedback or even separate sheets of paper. I still find this very cool, the idea that now my students can converse and assist each other in an easily documented and archived way. I’ve been very pleased by the way the groups have been working to date.
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