On-line and Interactive Journals. However, on-line journals are potentially interactive because other students in the class can read their colleagues' responses and write messages based on them. A variety of asynchronous communication activities can be used by teachers to announce things to classes, to distribute assignments, to update schedules and other course materials, etc. Student Peer Review.
Asynchronous communication has a lot of potential applications for peer review.
Besides expanding the boundary of the traditional classroom, asynchronous student peer review also has the advantage of asking student readers to write about their responses to their colleagues' texts, and it gives student writers a written response from their colleagues to help in revising their own writing. The hundreds of thousands of active Internet newsgroups and electronic mailing listservs represent excellent sites of discourse to be examined and described by students. Ask students to join a newsgroup or listserv of their choice as an active participant while they analyze and consider the style of writing and discursive practices of the group.