Cross-Campus Peer Review

This spring semester I participated in a fun project with Tommy Buteau, who is doing fantastic work in educational technology. We conducted a cross-campus peer review in which my AP students read and reviewed the work of students in his creative writing class. My students used the track changes and insert comment features of word to give peer feedback on short stories and personal narratives that Mr. Buteau’s students had written. They then filled out a peer review feedback form to help his students produce their final drafts and to help my students think about writing, editing, and revision. You can check out his class web page by clicking here. The peer review papers are under each student's personal web page under "peer review paper." Yet another example of how technology can be leveraged to create unique opportunities for students to learn!

Romeo and Juliet!

Today I am hosting another synchronous web-based class discussion with my ninth graders. We're going to be discussing the major themes of Romeo and Juliet. We had the unit test yesterday and discussed the expectations for the discussion--a lot of the students were excited about being able to have another blog discussion. This is the last one this year that I am going to set up for them; for the book club unit the students will be writing the prompts and students in my other sections will be responding to their peers questions.