Today we told stories about experiences where someone helped us to understand/learn something new, and then abstracted or identified the features of that experience that helped make it successful. If I had an LCD screen I would have written our list as a document and published it here. What was so great about that list was that it was a very close match to what they first reading in McAndrew and Reigstad identified as what research tells us about what students learn from tutoring. In other words, our list was an accurate representation of what we need to do to assist writers. If anyone wrote down the list - send it to me and I will post it here as part of the record for our course.
During the second section of the course you set up your blogs and we talked over the NIH training. By the end of class you all had your blogs set up, and you were working on linking to classmates' blogs (I still have to do that). If you run into trouble - send me an email at the course dedicated email and I will see what I can do.
For next class, use your blog entry to sum up your reflections on the first two readings - research on tutoring and what tutoring isn't - in light of our class discussion. Also - include some reflection on what you found interesting. As I pointed out in class, you will develop an empirical research project on tutoring this term - and now is a good time to start thinking about what you might like to study. Cast a wide net. Think about what connects to your personal interests.
Also - finish the NIH training and send me your certificate. I need to turn the certificates with the application for IRB approval. Please forward them to me ASAP.
Finally, read the section in McAndrew and Reigstad noted on the calendar. See you Monday!
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