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As per Gina’s suggestion last week, I asked my students to assign themselves roles in their groups. So far, two of the groups have done that, but I only know because those two groups e-mailed me. Tomorrow, I will have to do more intensive follow-up. I’ve been very disorganized, in terms of tracking group progress. Organization is probably key in an assignment like this–keeping track of who has signed up for YouthVoices, having a master list of all their e-mail addresses, tracking the frequency of their posts to the blog, and so on. I’ll have to whip a little spreadsheet and get as much information as I can in class tomorrow. I also want to print out screenshots of the Youth Voices blog, to show them how their blog posts should be composed. Normally, I wouldn’t be so exacting but since their blogs will, in effect, be annotated bibliographies, I want the information organized in a way that will make it easier for them to create the content for their wikis later.

Speaking of wikis, check out Conversational. I will probably print out whatever they post to the wiki, edit it and ask them to make revisions accordingly.

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