Using the forums for peer review is also a good idea, but you’ll need to ensure that you establish good ground rules because the forum is, after all, a public place. If you use the forum as a place for students to start a thread, post a draft, and then respond to each other’s drafts, you’ll need to ensure that they keep their comments positive and productive. One good way to do that is to provide a checklist of items to respond to. For example, you can ask students to respond to a series of questions:
- What did you like about this post?
- How could the post have been more specific?
- When did you want to know more? What could the author have provided?
The key is to keep the peer review questions brief and avoid having ...
