Hi everyone:
I had my College Writing I students call in their essay topics to my Gabcast channel last week as prewriting for their first essay on "Received Ideas." I think it worked okay. It's a small sample: there are only 9 students enrolled in the class, and 8 completed the task by the due date. Later on, maybe after the students have written the first two essays, I'll do a survey and get their feedback on whether they found the phone-in useful.
I found collecting the messages and burning them to a CD to play in class pretty easy. One of my concerns had been sound quality, but only two messages were two messages sounded a little wonky, and even with those, I could understand what was being said on a second listen. With a small number of students, and it being early in the semester without a lot of papers to grade, it wasn't too difficult to transfer the phone messages from my Gabcast channel to the Bigger Classroom blog, but I can anticipate that this might not always be the case.
So the technology worked fine, and I'm still evaluating the pedagogical value.
This is a link to the post on my Bigger Classroom blog with student phone messages:
http://biggerclassroom.blogspot.com/2007/09/received-ideas-phone-messages.html
Tracy
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Tracy: So your assignments work pretty well. I went to your website and listened to most of the students' messages. They are interesting. Their messageS varies a lot. Some are very long and others are so short, some are very clear and others are "wonky". I remeber you gave us the handout about the assignment but I did nto remember whether you specify the length of the message or not. So if I can give any suggestion, it would be that set a uniform standard in terms of the format, like how long and the format(first introduce themselves, then tell the received idea and explain concisely, finally conclude so that listeners know it is over).
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