Comments on: The Pilot Course, Part 3

By: preterite

preterite — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 23:54:22 +0000

Bradley, I think the way to do it is to actually give them responsibility for completing the requirement on their own, but also to use the in-class time (for me, at least 20 minutes) to give them a prompt that’ll set them on their way. The nice thing about 750word.com is that it lets them track their statistics, and I usually ask them pretty early on: “How fast do you write? How many words per minute?” So at lesson 10, they turn in 7500 words and at least 10 entries to earn a C, but they’ve had both in-class and out-of-class time to do that — even as we’ve often devoted the other 30-35 minutes of class to other activities.

By: bradley

bradley — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 21:51:10 +0000

I too like 750words.com, and have been having my students churn out 750 words to start each class session. What I haven’t done is integrated it into my formal grading as Mike has done. Because students must pass a portfolio process in order to earn at least a ‘C’/2.0, I’m hoping the writing 750 four times a week will get them there, but just don’t know how to score/honor it, unless I tack on something after they achieve portfolio success.

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Vitia » Blog Archive » The Pilot Course, Part 4 — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 04:35:36 +0000

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By: Chel

Chel — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 14:12:52 +0000

I like 750words.com!