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New: 1001 Reflections Podcasts: Chris Watson on Improving Peer Feedback in the Writing Workshop

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[Note: This is a cross-post from the new 1001 Flat World Tales collaborating educators' blog, 1001 Reflections. Check it out to read, see, hear, and respond to reflections from educators exploring new literacy practices in our global, collaborative k-12 writing workshop. Contributors are from, as of today, Australia, Malaysia, Korea, Serbia, Canada, the Dominican Republic, and the USA and Hawaii. Feel free to add your school anytime. Schools from the Arab world would make our day!]

This is part one of a talk with Chris (more to follow). The following is from the iTunes podcast notes. Since this is an enhanced podcast, with timestamp and chapter headings, you may want to download it to your iTunes or other podcast aggregator. Happy listening!

Chris Watson, HS English/Language Arts teacher at Punahou High School in Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, joins fellow 1001 Flat World Tales collaborator Clay Burell of Seoul, South Korea, for a discussion about how to improve the tact, quality, and confidence of students giving peer feedback to other student writers during writing workshops. The first of a two-part podcast with Chris on the 1001 Reflections podcast series. Produced by Clay Burell for Beyond School and the 1001 Flat World Tales wiki/blog/”blook” k-12 world writing workshop. See Chris’ excellent edublog, WatsonCommon, as well. Great stuff!


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February 25th, 2007 at 5:26 am

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