This exercise will allow me to serve several purposes.
1. When the students answer the question themselves they will understand the rationale for the course in a concrete way.
2. As I watch them work I can pick up strengths and weaknesses quickly.
3. As I work with them they will understand who I am and how I work quickly.
4. By reading the 5 sentences I can pick up writing problems immediately and alert all of them to common problems.
5. By working together, they will get over some of their own computer phobia - which kicks in in the early days of the semester. They can teach themselves shortcuts and how to solve problems just as I have been taught today.
6. They will have to cope with WebCT without whining all semester about how they can't find it and therefore it becomes usleless to me.
7. This will be a very lively way to start the semester and get everyone to work together.
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Nancy, you convinced me that the project you are going to assign will be beneficial to the students,and make your teaching more effective as well. Something I have to add is that they can also help reducing the consumption of resources such as paper, ink, copying and printing time, machine for making those etc.
Students do need to get exposed to WebCT as soon as possible. All the writing practice they can get is valuable. A short writing assignment also reduces the anxiety.
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