Learning Circles Training Course
Phase 5 - Sharing
Activity 6
Produce a publication sharing the findings of your investigations
The Circle Publication
Many interesting projects in classrooms fail to make a lasting impression on students because the time was not taken to look back and review what was learned. The Circle publication plays a critical role in motivating students to organize and evaluate the information that they received from other students.
Your students' contributions to the other investigations give them a very personal reason for wanting to read the work of their partner classrooms. In this way they will benefit directly from the educational activities that took place in the distant classrooms.
Planning for Your Circle Publication
The Learning Circle Coordinator will coordinate the Circle publications. Each class will publish their own investigation findings in a simple web site of their own design. This site could typically contain the following pages:
- A home page with a stimulating image and the topic of investigation briefly described.
- A page summarising the reponses of each class.
- A page presenting the findings of your class investigation, with hyperlink reference
- to the reponses from other classes
- expert sources of information related to the investigation
- A page about your class.
The Learning Circle Coordinator takes on the responsibility of checking
- that all classes are publishing their findings,
- when each of publication will be ready,
- where the findings will be published.
Finally, the Learning Circle Coordinator announces in a Circle Update where the Circle publications may be viewed.
Course Activity:
Publish your investigation findings and inform you Course Coordinator of the location. If you are unable to publish to a web site, Zip all the files in one compressed file and attach the file to e-mail to your course coordinator.
Adapted for ASEAN Schoolnet from Learning Circle Teachers' Guide by Margaret Riel