Writing Assignment Considerations
When I become a teacher, writing will invariably be apart of the process, so I must structure assignments to garner discussion and positive discourse.
Discussion posts and blog modalities have garnered a lot of traction within the past decade - it constituted a large portion of my undergraduate assignments. However, I have my reservations, not in the effectiveness, but the execution.
Social annotations fall in unison with discussion forums, and in relation to it’s use, Matthew Johnson states that “as soon as it feels more like a hoop to be jumped through…all of the advantages of annotating their own work vanish in an instance”