Dr. Sue Walker has also been experimenting with CommentPress in her poetry writing course this semester. She has been using blogs in her poetry writing classes for some time, but she had always used conventional blog systems, where she would post the assignment in the blog area and students would post poems and comments in a long, linear string that was almost impossible to make sense of.
When she asked me about a month ago how she might do this more effectively, we decided that we would try CommentPress. We added all of her students to the system as authors so that they can each publish their poems as blog posts. Then, the other students (or anyone else) can post comments and pose questions in a contextually relevant and logical way.
As of this writing, there have been 37 blog entries posted on the site and a total of 148 comments.
Dr. Walker is so excited about its effectiveness that she has asked me to set up a CommentPress site for her composition class so that she can have them post their essays and receive constructive criticism from her students.
Let me know if you are interested in trying CommentPress with your classes.
Click here to view Dr. Walker’s poetry class’s CommentPress site.
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