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PSY F320 History and Systems of Psychology
Using expertise to contribute to Wikipedia as a Public Community For a final unit assignment students must help construct a Wikipedia entry on Indigenous Psychology. Originally, the page looked like the image below, but their improvements to the entry can be seen live on Wikipedia - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indigenous_psychology Used: Wikipedia
Community Mechanics
Building and Maintain Community Often one of the most challenging aspects of an eLearning course is getting your students to interact as a class in an asynchronous situation. Providing opportunities for students to share experiences, resources, and reflections can be accomplished using different tools. “Make students active participants in learning. Students learn by doing, making, writing, designing, creating, solving.” (Lucas 1990) Also providing a space for students to interact with each other (with or without the instructor) is an important element in fostering classroom community. Class Blog Blogs provide an opportunity for online, public reflection without demanding high levels of technical [Read On...]
Blackboard Discussion Forums
What are Discussion Forums? Blackboard’s Discussion Board or forum allows members of the class to communicate with one another while not requiring all members to be online at the same time. Discussions on the Discussion Board are logged and organized and conversations are grouped into threads that contain a main posting heading and all related replies. Generally, the instructor creates a forum on a specific topic. Students and instructors access the topic by clicking on the forum, reading the posts, and posting their reply. A series of posts within a forum is called a thread. You may reply to a [Read On...]
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