No you did it correctly. As the administrator who posted the blog you get the notification. You may simply advise the student that there are responses. R
Rodney
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On Oct 7, 2012, at 4:03 PM, "gsitara" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Hi Rodney,
>
> I am not sure if I have done something wrong or if this is the way it
> should work, of if something can be tweaked to include notify the student
> writer...I have featured two blogs and I am getting notifications
> regarding responses. But I am not the writer just the instructor, how the
> students who are writers also be notified? What should I have done
> differently in the posting process?
>
> Thank you for your help.
> Georgia
>
>> Gloria:
>>
>> To feature a blog, look on the NING site to the extreme left column. Go
>> down and you will see the tab -add a discussion, click on that and cut and
>> past your Featured blog. Place Featured blog, your institution in the
>> subject line
>>
>> And thanks...As you can see having as many as 100 student blogs being
>> submitted each week, it can become a nightmare for students to follow
>> specific conversations, know where to post their responses, and for us to
>> manage them. Please encourage your students to use these, but understand
>> that if they see an interesting blog in the general blogs to please
>> respond..
>>
>> Thanks..
>>
>> r
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: The Partners Project [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf
>> Of gsitara
>> Sent: Monday, October 01, 2012 10:24 AM
>> To: [log in to unmask]
>> Subject: featuring a blog
>>
>> First of all, I apologize for having so many questions and I thank you for
>> your patience.
>>
>> How do we feature a student blog?
>>
>> thank you
>> g
>>
>>
>>> Georgia:
>>>
>>> No problem:
>>>
>>> I have addressed your questions below..r
>>>
>>>
>>> Hello Partners,
>>>
>>> This is my first time participating and I wonder how the group process
>>> works. How do students sign up for case study project topics?
>>>
>>> Students will identify to you whether or not they will do a case study
>>> or a service learning project.
>>>
>>> Will the topics be on the site and students can sign up directly on
>>> the site?
>>>
>>> The topics are listed on the xl -sheet attached. They will identify
>>> their first, second, and third choice.
>>>
>>> You will place them into teams of from 3/4 from your school based upon
>>> choices.
>>>
>>> (on the XL sheet attached you will list your school/ and their choices
>>> something like
>>>
>>> SCHOOL X 1SL
>>>
>>> SCHOOL X 2CS
>>>
>>> SCHOOL X 3CS
>>>
>>> These are three student teams from School X, Team 1 has decided to do
>>> a service learning group project, and teams 2 and 3 have decided to do
>>> case studies.
>>>
>>> Each team will then decide upon their first 3 topics, in order of
>>> preference and then I (or the Partner) will place these on the spread
>>> sheet. I have done this for School X on the Spread sheet attached..
>>>
>>> SCHOOL X 1sl Indigenous rights/collective rights 1st choice, TOPICS
>>> Anti-Racism (2nd choice), Neoliberalism, post neoliberalism and human
>>> rights (3rd choice) SCHOOL X 2cs Cultural Differences (1st Choice),
>>> Pandemics (2nd choice), Women's Rights (3rd Choice) SCHOOL X 3cs
>>> Global Protest (1st Choice), Trade and Development (2nd choice),
>>> Poverty 3CS (3rd Choice)
>>>
>>>
>>> Will students for the various topics form their own groups for chat on
>>> the NING site?
>>>
>>>
>>> First, the Faculty Partners will pair up the groups, by seeing which
>>> groups match up based upon the completion of the Spreadsheet. In most
>>> cases this will result in complete groups of between 6-8 team members.
>>> With each group having teams from no more than 2 different schools.
>>>
>>> Once these groups have been formed, we will alert our respective
>>> classes and then encourage them to contact their team members. We
>>> will need to be able to provide emails to the respective team members
>>> once the groups have been formed.
>>>
>>> The student groups once formed will then set up a group site on NING,
>>> or we can do this for them.
>>>
>>> thank you for any help you can offer to clarify the process for me and
>>> my students.
>>>
>>> I hope this is clear, if not..let us know what areas are unclear. And
>>> don't hesitate to ask, we who have done this a couple of time know how
>>> daunting it can be the first time..
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Georgia
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> rodney
>>>>
>>>> Dear Partners:
>>>>
>>>> It is time that we begin to have discussions regarding group
>>>> formation, type of group projects (service learning or case study)
>>>> and topics coordination both among ourselves and with our students.
>>>> To get this started, I have attached last year's list of topics as a
>>>> way of moving forward. Please take a look and see if there are some
>>>> that you would like to add. Once we finalize this, we can circulate
>>>> it among our students to see what interest there is for particular
>>>> topics that we can then try to pair up into teams. We will also need
>>>> to designate specific Partners to be the lead coordinator for each
>>>> group topic so that we have some means of controlling the chaos.
>>>> Remember that we have set the following target dates.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Here are our Group Project Dates
>>>>
>>>> Oct 7 - Student select topics from list
>>>>
>>>> Oct 14- Groups are finalized by your Professor, if groups are not
>>>> complete already
>>>>
>>>> Oct 21- Topics are finalized by discussion within the group -- what
>>>> to study and how the various schools / students will study it
>>>>
>>>> Oct 28- Students outline, division of labor, students also identify
>>>> literature informative for their research
>>>>
>>>> Nov 4- Project design complete by the group -- at this point,
>>>> everything should be prepared for realizing the project, i.e., the
>>>> overall
>>>> structure will be drafted, literature (al least preliminary) will be
>>>> found, locations and concrete partners will be identified, etc. This
>>>> marks the start of the fieldwork or research by students, if not
>>>> already so.
>>>>
>>>> Nov 18- Intermediate report on the project
>>>>
>>>> Dec 2 - Final report on the project launched on the web and
>>>> presented in the university class.
>>>> Thanks...rodneyc
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> For more of my work please check me out at -
>>>> http://redroom.com/member/rodney-d-coates
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> The song that lies silent in the heart of a mother sings upon the
>>>> lips of her child..
>>>> Kahlil Gibran
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> [cid:image001.jpg@01CD9B0A.BB8CFD90]
>>>>
>>>> Rodney D. Coates
>>>> Professor and Interim Director of Black World Studies
>>>
>>>
>>> Dr. Georgia Sitara
>>> Sessional Lecturer
>>> Departments of History,
>>> Women's Studies,
>>> and Social Justice Studies
>>> University of Victoria
>>>
>>> [log in to unmask]
>>
>>
>> Dr. Georgia Sitara
>> Sessional Lecturer
>> Departments of History,
>> Women's Studies,
>> and Social Justice Studies
>> University of Victoria
>>
>> [log in to unmask]
>
>
> Dr. Georgia Sitara
> Sessional Lecturer
> Departments of History,
> Women's Studies,
> and Social Justice Studies
> University of Victoria
>
> [log in to unmask]
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