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Digital Discourse: Designing the Global Classroom Through Social Media
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Contribute to our evolving collection of social media tools for addressing these common elements of course design. Add your course(s) and suggestions below.
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DIgital Imaging (Freshmen)

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and for planning and previewing book club multimedia responses
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Contribute to our evolving collection of social media tools for addressing these common elements of course design. Add your course(s) and suggestions below.
Design Elements >
Course Name & Instructor
v
Content Creation & Delivery
Community
Communication
Collaboration
Contribution
AssessmentCollaboration
DIgital Imaging (Freshmen)
Amanda Robertson, Instructor
Moodle private space for quizzes, grades
Twitter for announcements, updates and reminders
for technical instructioninstruction, ongoing video communication, feedback and reflections on projects
Google Analytics to view variety of access by global visitors
Tag Clouds, such as Wordle to visualize text, e.g., blogs, discussions
Ning , private space for buddy support, individual introductions, creating group "critters" as a creative activity to get to know each other
Second Life as a fun way to hold critique and share ideas.
Ning , private spacediigo for messaging, group & buddy communication. Ongoingdeveloping and sharing a library of online resources
VoiceThread, for sharing individual work, student to instructor as well as student to student feedback on individual work, and student evaluations of historical examples of work
YouTube (asynchronous)
WordPress, for ongoing video communication, feedback and reflectionsposting student final work on projects
WordPress , public spaceeach assignment for news, ongoing info on exhibits and lectures
Ning , used for group collaborationstudent to support written researchstudent and design collaboration
WordPress , using a wikiinstructor to post group research for projects
WordPress for posting student feedback on final work on each assignment
YouTube for posting student project videos
VoiceThread, for sharing individual work, student to instructor as well as student to student feedback on individual work, and student evaluations of historical examples of work (asynchronous)
Second Life , for sharing individual work and student to instructor and student to student feedback on work (synchronous)
WordPressNing , studentused for group collaboration to student,support written research and instructordesign collaboration
WordPress , using a wiki to student feedback on final workpost group research for projects
Teaching Young Adult Literature (Graduate-level)
Cris Crissman, Instructor
Cathi Phillips, Instructional Desginer
Moodle for session-by-session content & action items
Second Life for
LIVE Classes
(seminars, guest speakers, sharing projects)
VoiceThread for introductions around a course-related theme. Check out our Journey Book Introductory VoiceThread
each other inand interacting with guest speakers
YouTube for publishing book club multimedia responses to a fun wayclass group (Please visit) and for screening these bookcasts in Second Life for an avatar make-over sessionLIVE Classes
Ning for initiating &
organizing book clubs.
Moodle for the Question&Answer Forum.
Moodle for weekly updates and LIVE Class Syntheses- Follow-throughs.
Ningclubs
and for planning
(bookcasts)
Second Life for sharing multimedia reports for Action Learning Projects.
VoiceThread for sharing research through a personal lens (and voice) for our Collaborative Critical Inquiries (CCI). See Waves of Change CCI on literacy, literary, and learning theories
YouTube for publishing book club multimedia responses to a class group (Please visit) and for screening these bookcasts in Second Life for LIVE Classes
Google Docs for student to teacher journals and completion of RAPs
(Reflective Assessment Process) rubrics & reflective prompts
(Course Name(Add Your Course and Instructor)

Welcome to the Digital Discourse Wiki
Digital Discourse: Designing the Global Classroom Through Social Media
Contribute to our evolving collection of social media tools for addressing these common elements of course design. Add your course(s) and suggestions below.
Design Elements >
Course Name & Instructor
v
Content Creation & Delivery
Community
Communication
Collaboration
Contribution
Assessment
DIgital Imaging (Freshmen)
Amanda Robertson, Instructor
Cathi Phillips, Instructional Desginer
WordPress , public space for assignments, syllabus, course tools and resources
Moodle private space for quizzes, grades
Twitter for announcements, updates and reminders
YouTube for technical instruction
Google Analytics to view variety of access by global visitors
Tag Clouds, such as Wordle to visualize text, e.g., blogs, discussions
WordPress public space for sharing student design work, thoughts, and ideas with the global design community, and bringing in news, ongoing info on exhibits and lectures from that wider community
Ning , private space for buddy support, individual introductions, creating group "critters" as a creative activity to get to know each other
Second Life as a fun way to hold critique and share ideas.
Ning , private space for messaging, group & buddy communication. Ongoing feedback on student work
YouTube for ongoing video communication, feedback and reflections on projects
WordPress , public space for news, ongoing info on exhibits and lectures
Ning , used for group collaboration to support written research and design collaboration
WordPress , using a wiki to post group research for projects
WordPress for posting student final work on each assignment
YouTube for posting student project videos
VoiceThread, for sharing individual work, student to instructor as well as student to student feedback on individual work, and student evaluations of historical examples of work (asynchronous)
Second Life , for sharing individual work and student to instructor and student to student feedback on work (synchronous)
WordPress , student to student, and instructor to student feedback on final work
Teaching Young Adult Literature (Graduate-level)
Cris Crissman, Instructor
Cathi Phillips, Instructional Desginer
Moodle for session-by-session content & action items
Second Life for
LIVE Classes
(seminars, guest speakers, sharing projects)
VoiceThread for introductions around a course-related theme. Check out our Journey Book Introductory VoiceThread
Second Life for getting to know each other in a fun way for an avatar make-over session
Ning for initiating &
organizing book clubs.
Moodle for the Question&Answer Forum.
Moodle for weekly updates and LIVE Class Syntheses- Follow-throughs.
Ning for planning and previewing book club multimedia responses
(bookcasts)
Second Life for sharing multimedia reports for Action Learning Projects.
VoiceThread for sharing research through a personal lens (and voice) for our Collaborative Critical Inquiries (CCI). See Waves of Change CCI on literacy, literary, and learning theories
YouTube for publishing book club multimedia responses to a class group (Please visit) and for screening these bookcasts in Second Life for LIVE Classes
Google Docs for student to teacher journals and completion of RAPs
(Reflective Assessment Process) rubrics & reflective prompts
(Course Name and Instructor)