What each person found was valuable. As a facilitator, I assist students who have difficulty navigating through sites such as accessing sound clips and returning to the main browser window containing the Part One page of links. Additionally, I offer encouragement by validating what students find as useful for those feeling insecure, challenging the advanced students to probe deeper into sites and make connections between musicians and their music, and supportive of those who struggle with the idea of searching for information that is not only new, but would be of special interest to others. Go to the classroom Discussion Website and click the link for Blues Music. Then click reply on one of the links.
Students write in their own words what they learned from the site.
By articulating their thoughts, they have digested the knowledge into a means to share within their discussion groups. 5 minutes is enough time for those who need extended time, and for the some time fickleness of the form processing information to the discussion web. Those students who finish quickly are told to read each other's thoughts, including those expressed from other classes, and write replies about their interpretation of the new information, a similarity to step four. In groups of 3, talk about what you learned. Students take turns sharing what they learned, and talking about what others in the group say.