Journals 1 & 2 for new tutors, fall 2008

Click on the journals tab at the top of the blog (below the masthead image) to see the complete journal assignments. I’ll be looking forward to reading yours, just as I hope you find it interesting to read the journals that new tutors last spring wrote. Don’t forget to categorize your journal (general ones in the check-off list in the box below where you compose your post) and write a tag or two or three to describe what you’ve written. Also remember that I’ve attached some documents for reference in an Oct. 20th email to you. Check there, too.

 

Categorizing and tagging our ideas (to better search)

Who’s talking about what in our blog?

WordPress blogs allow each of us to put ‘tags’ on each of our posts, categorizing how our ideas connect to bigger themes (categories) in the tutoring and learning we do here at Rollins. We can then pull up postings that relate to this concept or that, from all the messages that all of us post to the blog.

E.g. You read another tutor’s post about doing an online grammar exercise with a student. You comment on it, talking about your last session with your Spanish student, with specific examples. It’s longish. You then have to choose your categories and write some tags:

CATEGORY: second language tutoring (check one or two of these in the list of 15 or so categories) TAGS: grammar, ser vs. estar, Spanish, online exercises, homework, SPN 110 (you write these out as you think of them; they can be very specific)

Here’s a WordPress.com explains categories vs. tags, and over 300 people comment on it. http://faq.wordpress.com/2007/09/21/the-difference-between-tags-and-categories/