Diane K. Jakacki

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Student Digital Edition: Observations & Reflections

Dec 2, 2012

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Diane Jakacki

in Digital Pedagogy

I’ve written before about the final project I assigned to my students for this term’s ENGL1102: Shakespeare’s English Histories course. The assignment was an ambitious experiment to see how students would collaborate on a digital edition of the Queen’s Men play The Famous Victories of Henry the Fifth. I haven’t yet assessed the students’ final artifacts,…
Course Blogs: Commenting Privately on a Student’s Post

Jan 28, 2012

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Diane Jakacki

in Brittain Fellowship, Digital Pedagogy, Social Media

Rebecca Burnett and I had a conversation about the nature of commenting on student blog posts. As instructors, should we have the option of making a private comment – viewable only to the student author, or should all comments be viewable to all students? There is an argument to be made for complete transparency in…