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How Does Palaver Tree Online Work?
In general, participation on Palaver Tree Online will take a minimum of six weeks from start to finish. There are three basic phases to your class' participation:
Preparation -- (Week 1 & 2) -- Permission slips sent home with kids. Software installed. Teacher selects elders from our database. Kids do background reading. Permission slips sent to us via us mail.
Interviewing -- (Week 3 & 4) -- Kids formulate and post questions for elders based on their reading. Elders respond. Kids review responses and ask followup questions. Please allow one week for elders to respond.
PalaverStories -- (Week 5 & 6) -- Kids create online projects that reflect what they have learned from elders. Elders offer feedback on the projects, and the kids revise their work.
How Do I Sign Up?
PLEASE NOTE: Palaver Tree Online is currently closed. If you'd like detail on how the system was used, please check the papers area.
Before getting started with the steps below, please send send an e-mail with your name and the number of students you'd like to have use Palaver Tree to palaver@cc.gatech.edu. I will make sure there is space for your class in the community.
Once you hear from me, there are four steps to getting your class involved with Palaver Tree Online...
- Print out the Teacher Consent Form and fill it out.
- Print out the Student Permission Form. Each participating student must submit a separate form signed by both the student and a parent.
- Mail all the completed forms in one package to:
Jason Ellis
College of Computing
Georgia Institute of Technology
Atlanta, GA 30332-0280
- When we recieve your forms, we will activate your students' accounts.
Problems? Questions? E-mail palaver@cc.gatech.edu.
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