Social Studies 8

Today, students were given computer lab time to read through the responses posted by their classmates. Then, students were to respond to/evaluate the responses of other students from their class. The goal being that each response be spectacular due to the orginial post plus the constructive comments from classmates. Students were given starting examples of how to comment constructively such as "I would add the following to this post..." or "I disagree with this post because..." or "I think this is a good post because..." Students were challenged to come up with more to say than something like "I disagree with this post because it is wrong" and to instead add or correct information to make a quality response to the posted question.
Absent students can access the class blog from at home: www.classchatter.com
Homework: Study for Thursday's map test on Eastern Europe