Comments on: Introductions http://mellersh.wordpress.com/2008/01/31/introductions/ Being a good girl in my SMIELT class Thu, 21 Feb 2008 17:32:52 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: MaryH http://mellersh.wordpress.com/2008/01/31/introductions/#comment-34 MaryH Sun, 10 Feb 2008 15:15:39 +0000 http://mellersh.wordpress.com/?p=15#comment-34 Hi Lucy, I also liked your ideas for introductions! Great suggestions for next year, as Illya said. As a co-moderator of Blogging4Educators, we also thought carefully about what would be the best way for participants to introduce themselves. In the end, we decided to have each person send an introduction to the Yahoo group. The interesting thing, however, was that we didn't really get to know each other until a week three task called the B4E challenge. Participants wrote and tagged posts with 5 things about themselves. You can see the results here http://www.technorati.com/search/b4echallenge?language=n&authority=n Hi Lucy,
I also liked your ideas for introductions! Great suggestions for next year, as Illya said.

As a co-moderator of Blogging4Educators, we also thought carefully about what would be the best way for participants to introduce themselves. In the end, we decided to have each person send an introduction to the Yahoo group. The interesting thing, however, was that we didn’t really get to know each other until a week three task called the B4E challenge. Participants wrote and tagged posts with 5 things about themselves. You can see the results here http://www.technorati.com/search/b4echallenge?language=n&authority=n

]]> By: Patricia Glogowski http://mellersh.wordpress.com/2008/01/31/introductions/#comment-30 Patricia Glogowski Fri, 08 Feb 2008 16:50:59 +0000 http://mellersh.wordpress.com/?p=15#comment-30 I really liked your ideas for introductions. Will use them in the future (with my classes too) :) I ask my students to write 5 true and 5 false things about themselves and then they get together with a partner who has to guess what's true and what's false. Then we guess it together as a class. I also write 5 true/false things about myself on the blackboard (like: I met George Clooney when I was in Venice last year) and the need to guess. It's a lot of fun! I really liked your ideas for introductions. Will use them in the future (with my classes too) :)

I ask my students to write 5 true and 5 false things about themselves and then they get together with a partner who has to guess what’s true and what’s false. Then we guess it together as a class. I also write 5 true/false things about myself on the blackboard (like: I met George Clooney when I was in Venice last year) and the need to guess. It’s a lot of fun!

]]> By: Nancy http://mellersh.wordpress.com/2008/01/31/introductions/#comment-23 Nancy Fri, 01 Feb 2008 05:33:46 +0000 http://mellersh.wordpress.com/?p=15#comment-23 It is hard to know how any activity is actually going to play out in a group like this. The Magical Chairs activity would have been more effective, I think, if we had started a new forum topic each time a board got filled. People and conversations wouldn't have gotten lost as easily. But I don't think any of us really anticipated the volume of responses. Or the pace. I think the question of opening activities and or introductions is one that we should be asking. I am not sure what the answer should look like, but I think it will be exciting, whatever it is. Thanks for your comments. It is hard to know how any activity is actually going to play out in a group like this. The Magical Chairs activity would have been more effective, I think, if we had started a new forum topic each time a board got filled. People and conversations wouldn’t have gotten lost as easily. But I don’t think any of us really anticipated the volume of responses. Or the pace.

I think the question of opening activities and or introductions is one that we should be asking. I am not sure what the answer should look like, but I think it will be exciting, whatever it is.

Thanks for your comments.

]]> By: illya arnet-clark http://mellersh.wordpress.com/2008/01/31/introductions/#comment-22 illya arnet-clark Thu, 31 Jan 2008 21:27:26 +0000 http://mellersh.wordpress.com/?p=15#comment-22 Great ideas, Lucy! Sorry it has to wait until next year :-(, unless you want to get together with a couple of people (I'm always game!) and organize another session beforehand! I'm sure we would find a place and audience for it :-) Great ideas, Lucy!
Sorry it has to wait until next year :-( , unless you want to get together with a couple of people (I’m always game!) and organize another session beforehand! I’m sure we would find a place and audience for it :-)

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