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Small-group Skyping, Part 2: Peer & Personal Accountability

Today we had a great time introducing ourselves to Laura Oldham’s (@engltchrleo) new reading classes via Edmodo; our small-group Skyping cohort also happily reconnected with Karin Perry’s (@kperry) students to discuss James Dashner’s The Maze Runner.  We used 1:1 iPods Touch and m.Edmodo.com for our introductions; we gathered around Skype on a MacBook for our book [...]

Posted 08 January 2010 † Chad § Blog post ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

Small-group Skyping

Today one of my reading groups started “small-group Skyping” (thanks for the phrase, @bjnichols) with some of Karin Perry’s (@kperry) students. The students met on Skype and then watched three book trailers before settling on Scott Westerfeld’s Uglies as the novel they wanted to read and discuss together after winter break. I thought the [...]

Posted 17 December 2009 † Chad § Blog post ‡ Comments (5) ° Also tagged: , , , , , , , , , , , ,