My pre-digital response to this assignment is called A bunch of words. Check it out on Google doc if you're up for traditional read, or if you're my professor and you need to give me a grade for this.
Oops... This student opened my antideluvian, .doc file, and he just doesn't get it...
What's a digital way to do this? The National Teaching and Learning Forum has a great article called "teaching naked," but then again, it's just a bunch of words too...
I could have freerice.com competition, with the students drilling on vocabulary for ten minutes every few days, little prizes for every thousand grains earned on the site, and a class party when a milestone is reached by the class as a whole.
I just saw a method for testing, using an mp3 recorder, and having students take turns going out in the hallway to talk into it as the class is being taught. The effectiveness of the process is pretty incredible.
How about getting the students to post something weekly on the National Gallery of Writing?
Technologically savvy methods are, of course, infinitely diverse and ever-changing. Alas, in order to get a more complete, methodical undrerstanding of my response, you'll have to step back into my unappealling pre-digital content. Students will also need to be able to "crack the code" of long, dreary texts if they want to achieve any kind of versatility. The idea that one kind of understanding is fundamentally different from the other, anyways, is quite possibly bunk.
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