What is the Community
The Community in Simulise offers a timeline as you often see on Social Media. Just like Facebook, Instagram or LinkedIn. In the timeline, anyone can post status updates and share portfolio items. They are then seen by school or classmates.
The timeline also includes portfolio items that classmates want to share with the Community. You can respond to all things in the timeline with likes and comments. These reactions are saved with the portfolio piece.
Who the participants of a Community is determined by the school. This can be the students from a selected group and the associated teachers.
Why get started with the Community?
The Community gives working with a portfolio an informal character, where students can easily provide each other with feedback.
- Motivation: Working with a social media-like structure is appealing to students.
- Informal feedback / formative work: the community can contribute to formative work with students. Students can provide each other with feedback on, for example, (intermediate) products. Peer feedback is useful for both the receiver and the giver.
- Sharing experiences: are you going on an internship, working week or are you doing a workshop? Share what has been learned in the community and students can learn from each other's experiences.
- Collaborative learning: students can help each other to improve products. They can also start their own community as a working group.
Practical Examples from the Community
Example 1 - In the context of an internship or exchange abroad, students write a blog about what they experience and what is typical for that country. They share their blog on the Community. Students were then instructed to provide the blogs with feedback on a number of points. As a teacher you can clearly see how active everyone is in the community, what the contributions are from students and you can assess their quality.
Example 2 - students are doing a country project for which a travel brochure has to be made. The students are divided into different groups, each with its own country. The (work) groups can easily start their own group community in Simulise. The final product "the folder" is shared with the class in Simulise and other classmates can give feedback on why they would or would not like to go on holiday to this country.