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Instructional Tips for the Discussion Tool
- Give the students a required number of postings per day/week and be very clear on what they should include. Include this in the grade.
- Give the students a rationale for student to student interaction.
- Sample Interaction Rationale
- Rationale for teachers from the Relational Standard for AVLN courses.
- Ways to structure interaction in the bulletin board
- Design questions that ask students to share their experience or use a metaphor to explain their thinking.
- Ways to do introductions.
- If you want students to share URLs or web page addresses in your bulletin board discussions, you may want to share instructions so they know how to copy and paste the web addresses.
- When assessing students' posts in the bulletin board, note that you can use the Search feature to find all the postings by one student.
- Sample scoring guide for student discussion.