The Tentative Plan for my Project

One of the classes I teach regularly here at CNM is called "College Success" it is a course that I wish I could've taken before I started my college career. It centers on self-discipline, self-appreciation, study habits, life as a student in the real world, and lots of self reflection and idea sharing. So what I am considering is a two-phase approach to the study habit area as well as the sharing. I think having the students set up a bookmarking account and sharing it will help them with both online and library research (since I will also have them use the bookmarking tool to create their own personal article or book reference using proper citation ( citation will be a new lesson module as well) The idea, is to give them a personal bookmark foundation which they can use throughout their college career.

The second aspect would be to have then set up a social networking site (I know there is an academic variant of facebook out there, I will just have to find it) We will them move our discussions out of blackboard and into this tool. The logic here is that within Blackboard, the students lose access to the discussions when the class ends. By using a networking site, we can not only retain the discussions, but that site can exist beyond the class as a peer netwrking site through college, and perhaps beyond.