If you are teaching in a computer classroom or a computer lab, students can write a document on the word processor, then move to another student's computer and respond to a peer's text. If the responders also include each other's ideas as they write about a particular document, the author has a coherent body of peer review. Disk Swapping or SneakerNet Students exchange disks with each other for the purpose of swapping files and responding to each other's work. Everyone who responds, signs, and then passes the disk on to another classmate.
Students add their responses to each other's questions or ideas.
In the paper version of this activity, each student pens a response to a question posed in class, signs it, then passes the paper to the next student and the next, until the paper has passed around the room or time runs out. At the end of the exercise, each student receives her or his own paper back with a variety of responses. Whenever possible, students should connect their responses to others so that they create a coherent conversation about a document. For the electronic version, in the computer classroom or lab, each student creates a wordprocessing document, answers the question posed in class, and signs. Then students move to another computer and write a response to their peer's document . . .