Collaborative sites taking off in L&S courses

As the pilot program for Collaborative Sites continues to grow, L&S instructors are exploring new ways to foster online interaction in their courses.

This semester, L&S instructors using Collaborative Sites created a wide range of online interactions for their students, including:

• FaceBook-style status updates and media sharing in Italian 102 and ILS 480
• Group blogging and case-study analysis in Communicative Disorders 706 
• Peer critique and resource sharing in CommArts 262 
• Group-based literary analysis in East Asian 671 and Scandinavian Studies 432
  

L&S courses using Collaborative Sites will be featured at two upcoming events:

• Introduction to Collaborative Sites for Learning Language, Literature, and Culture - Brown Bag, April 14 at Noon in 254 Van Hise
• Integrating Online Learning in Face-To-Face Classrooms - presentation at the 2010 Teaching and Learning Symposium, May 19 at 10 am. Pyle Center DE232

Collaborative Sites are designed and developed by L&S Learning Support Services for a limited number of L&S instructors each semester.

For more information, see http://lss.wisc.edu/collaborative-sites or contact Doug Worsham at doug@lss.wisc.edu or Sue Weier at sue@lss.wisc.edu with L&S Learning Support Services.

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L&S instructors share teaching ideas with LessonShare

A growing number of instructional communities in L&S are using LessonShare, a web-based tool that allows people to share, organize, and improve their collections of teaching materials.

In Spring 2009, the BioCore Outreach Ambassadors and English 100 launched LessonShare projects.

Next semester, English Literature and Russian Literature are both planning to build and launch their LessonShare sites. Want to get started in your department?  For more information.

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