Encourage learners to learn from one anther.
Opportunities to comment and “favorite” peer assignments and discussion comments encourages peer-to-peer learning, while increasing engagement.
guiding principles
Create a presence with brief professional information, field reports and discussion comments.
Promote collaboration and community building.
Make it easy, lightweight and fun.
design thinking
This project was an exercise in the design principle of proximity - group related items together. Professional information was separated from class work artifacts. The challenge was in combining a standard design element, field report tiles, with discussion comments made elseform in the class. The ability to sketch allowed for quick ideation to finding a solution. In the end, I elected for a Pinterest-like approach. By creating a comment tile with a flexible height, comments and field reports could be grouped together, and presented in a chronological order. The contrast between fixed sized field report tiles, and variable height comment tiles is pleasing and intuitive.
