For those of you that may have missed our SPARK Community of Practice gathering on the Journaling tool; our presenters have copies of their handouts and slides that you should take a look at. Journaling can be a powerful pedagogical tool and the Journal and Discussion tools in SPARK provides one way to implement journaling in your class.
Art Keene from the Anthropology department discussed his use of public student journals as a tool for refection in a community service learning course. Glenn Caffery discussed the benefits and challenges he has encountered using the private journaling for student-teaching discussions.
Art Keene’s handout on the benefits of Journaling
Glenn Caffery’s slides on his experience with Journaling
The second SPARK Community of Practice event of the semester will be in April, we are still looking to recruit speakers so if you would be willing to talk about your use of SPARK with other instructors please don’t hesitate to contact me at tony@oit.umass.edu.