I have no personal experience with TOPIC because I took my lower level English courses at a Junior College and they did not use TOPIC. However, I have witnessed my boyfriend’s aggrevation TOPIC. I know he hates it because it confuses him when his papers come back graded. Everytime he has a new grader, and they always say something different is wrong with his essay. One grader might say he did a good job on citations, and the next grader will say he did horrible on citations. TOPIC has made it hard for him to develop in his essay writing because he feels he does not have that constant criticism that you get from one teacher/grader.
I enjoyed the class discussion in MOO. Perhaps that is because I felt like I was at home having random conversations with friends on Facebook Chat. I think MOO could be a great tool, but it definitely is easy for discussions to go off topic in there. I think it would help if there were only a few students in one chat room rather than twenty. However, I see how MOO could be a great teaching device. It helps to get students speaking up about topics in class without being embarrassed which is always great.
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