Post 326: Different Kinds of Discussion Posts in Warnock's Book, Writing Together

Different Kinds of Discussion Posts in Warnock's Book, Writing Together

In Scott Warnock's book, Writing Together, Ten Weeks Teaching and Studenting in an Online Writing Course, Warnock goes over many ways he interacts with students in the Discussion Forums. On average, he posts 3 different post threads a week so students can interact with each other to learn the core concepts of his writing class. You can read Scott's own blog entry on the topic of different kinds of Message Boards: http://onlinewritingteacher.blogspot.com/2010_05_01_archive.html

 My Blog posts 326 to Blog post 330 will go over all the different kinds of forum posts in Warnock's 10 week English class.

I will cover these different forum thread activities in my next few blog posts. I had a great time reading Scott Warnock's book, and it was refreshing for me to learn more new ways to keep my students engaged in the online forums.  For the next 5 blog posts, I will cover 3 Forum threads at a time. Keep reading my blog to find out more!

Here are the 15 different forum thread activities found in Scott's book:

1. Reading Short Video Forum Thread

2. Writing Process Forum thread

3. Metacognition Forum thread

4. Proposal Ideas for papers thread

5. Argument about a topic thread

6. Reflection forum thread

7. Upcoming assignment forum thread

8. Course Logistics forum thread

9. My Favorite Post forum thread

10. Dr. LogoEtho Forum Thread

11. Student Moderator Forum Thread

12. Word Puzzle Forum Thread

13. Debate Thread

14. Peer Review Forum Thread

15. Citation Forum Thread

I found out about these different forum threads as I read Warnock's book from cover to cover. I took note of each of the different forum activities Warnock had in his online writing class in my notebook. No, Warnock did not list his activities in this manner, but he did present what he did in his online writing class week by week in his forums for a 10 week period. He also interspersed his teaching best practices observations with reaction from a student who also commented on how she liked the class.

Warnock, Scott. Writing Together: Ten Weeks of Teaching and Studenting in an Online Writing Course