DISCOVERING MILTON’S PAST

Active Learning Activity

Milton High School

9th Grade

Keyboarding & Computer Concepts

PURPOSES OF THE ASSIGNMENT

•Get students excited about the rich history of their community•Introduce students to using discussion forums•Allow students to add content to each other's posts•Receive online assignment feedback from me

ABOUT THE ACTIVITY•The activity was done completely in Moodle

• Directions• Links• Student Posts• Peer Responses• Teacher Responses

MOODLE CLASSROOM

ASSIGNEMENT DIRECTIONS

STUDENT POST PAGE

STUDENT POST

Student Reply

ORIGINAL POST

To reply to a classmate, students read their classmate’s post, visited the page from which the data was gathered, and added new content on the subject by replying to the post.

STUDENT REPLIES

Submitting the assignment in a discussion forum

gave ELL students an opportunity to communicate with their classmates and me in a comfortable environment

OTHER BENEFITS

ELL STUDENTPOST

I posted my forum response in English and

Spanish.

The ELL students responded to me

in English and Spanish as well.

BY ALEXANDRA WASELL