100 Words
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.. image:: /methods/100-words/100-words.jpg
:alt: Image connected with 100 words
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`Image by Charlotte Hollands (Access: 12.11.2009)
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Short description
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The activity enables course participants to interpret and share their
understanding of the course topic and issues in their reading through
short statements placed in the discussion boards.
Process description
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- Email the participants with the information about the activity and
the discussion board available throughout the course.
- Motivate participants to reflect on the course readings they have read.
- Participants are encouraged to write a 100 or less-word summaries
(interpretation and understanding) of the readings.
- Participants should place an agreed number of summaries on the
dissussion board, so that other learners could read and comment on
them.
- Moderate and supervise the postings.
Required resources
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- online asynchronous discussion board
- access to emails
Examples
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Article about the brevity of Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address. He
used just 272 words and now it is a magic number.
`The brevity of Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address continues to inspire on 150th anniversary `_
Comments
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The facilitator can also assign particular people to prepare specific topics.
The description of the activity was prepared on the basis
of R. Watkins's "75 e-learning activities".
Metadata
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*PSI:* https://psi.methopedia.eu/learning-activity/100-words