Sean Gardinier

I asked my 7th grade students in our academic forum, “How does CorreiaSeminar.com support your learning and experience at school?”

At this point, my students having been using the site for about 1 month. Though the front end is Joomla, they have been mostly interacting in the phpBB Topic Forum component. Here are some of the responses I received:

Yes. It most definietly helps my learning. To be able to have an educational discussion with students outside of the classroom at anytime is very helpful. If I have a question after hours, I can ask it online and get a response quickly. You can have a debate or discussion online, and everyone can add in their imput. It’s not like a face to face discussion, an email or a phone call because everyone is invited to be part of the learning experience.

The website in general has provided our classes with many wonderful resources. First of all, the online topic forum has allowed all of us to post questions, answer others, pool our ideas together, and basically share our ideas about any topic imaginable. (and by reading someone else’s ideas, it adds to our percpective on the concept.) Also- gives us one place to share links, pic, info and sources.

I think correiaseminar and the topic forums is an asset to our online community because it is very helpful to students. They use it to turn in assignments, post their warm-ups or journal entries, and ask questions. They also use it to gain information on school functions and vacations. Students can get missed homework assignments if they were absent or just chat with their friends. It also has announcements about school comings and goings, and has the dates of many important events, such as picture day. So all in all, I believe that correiaseminar and the topic forums are good for our online community.

The online community we have established is helpful because it helps us stay connnected and assist students who are having difficulties with the day’s lesson/homework. I’ve also learned some fascinating things through the different forum discussions that have been created, most of which I wouldn’t have learned otherwise. Overall, I feel its an awesome program to have access to, with the option to just talk to classmates about random subjects and an alternative way to do classwork (online journal entries). On a side note, its a great way to save paper!

Yes, I definitely think that the topic forums improve our school communities because then we can easily discuss things as a class without the problems of doing it out loud- such as talking over others, yelling, and more. Also, if we are absent one day, and there was a discussion, then we could just add our opinion after school and read what others had to say, instead of just missing out completely. In addition, we don’t have to use paper all of the time for journal entries.

Correia Seminar helps us because if someone forgot their homework than they could look on Correia Seminart and check their homework. This website also gives students that are in the Seminar Classes the opportunity to ask other students or the teacher for some help. Correia Seminar is a fun place to interact with others and a easier way to learn.

Correiaseminar helps us by allowing us to express ourselves in where you learn about school topics but you also learn more about people themselves in the open discussion forum. This has helped our learning experience by posting our homework online and the teacher can talk to students outside of school while they’re on the forum. This website is awesome!

Online topic forums help us to learn about not only the topic that we are studying, but about the opinions of our peers. by being able to communicate and interact with other students online, we are expanding our minds and bringing a tool familiar to many people of our generation, the computer, into education. This makes learning more interesting, as well as making it easier to learn, and being able to feed off of and comment on the opinions and thoughts of others.

I think the online community is good for the classroom and the students because we can talk to everyone from different periods, and ask any questions if a teacher isnt avaliable. We can read other classmate’s responses, and get different ideas.

I think correia seminar helps our school experience because it is easier to do things tha have to do with school and it is fun. And it is cool to see what other people say about what we say on assignments. Also we can respond to each other to see why we gave our respnd and we can have quick disscussionj and it is pretty cool about correia seminar. And it is just coll to do our work on a computer and online with others.

I like this site because it helps us share our thoughts and ideas, and connect with everybody. Plus, technology is becoming very prominent in society, and it’s important that we learn how to use it. Blogs, search engines, topic forums… they’re becoming really common (and easy to use) so utilizing these tools is practically a requirement.

I believe that the website supports our learning experience because of the way the forums work. They allow students to respond to your questions so that you can see what we think, while at the same time, other students in our class can read each other’s responses and get ideas for thier own. Even when sudents are at home, not together, they can still post questions to each other or look up the homework. I think it is a powerful tool that can aid our class.