Fall semester is off and running. And, whew! Have we been running!!! It's such an exciting time right now in our QEP department. Porsha, my fellow Writing Specialist, and I have made class visits to 10 out of 11 of this year's cohorts. Pretty much everyone has their class wiki in place. Now, the students are starting to trickle into the labs to work on their assignments.
It is such a joy to work with our faculty and students. So far, everyone seems to be enjoying their QEP experience. Just this morning, I showed four students how to use Google docs to collaborate on a group project. They were amazed at the chat feature built in. Now, they don't have to meet in person to work on their report. You would have thought I'd shown them how to go to the moon, they were so excited! haha!
Just a simple exercise using Gdocs to write a collaborative research paper has allowed them to learn how to "connect" in ways they never imagined. Seeing the students' excitement made my day. Hopefully, this is just the tip of the iceburg. It's going to be an exciting semester!
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Once students get a taste of social networking in their classrooms, they don't want to let it go. Google will ruin them for the lecture monsters among us.
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