Over the past few days, I’ve been working on NowComment to organize materials around AAPI — Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month. It has been exciting to share my tech tips with a growing community of teachers to show them how to get a document up on NowComment “properly.” And to reach out to people to see what they can […]

Well I pulled together Brendaly’s portfolio I presented it at a conference workshop on Saturday. I’m pretty excited about the possibilities for this work, but there’s a gap between what we can do on Youth Voices and what teachers and what teachers and students want to, can, or are aware that they can do. It’s this gap that keeps me […]

Why do we need skills, an assessment tool, on Youth Voices? Fair question, especially since simplicity is the key to success for online learning systems. But also, asking youth to pay attention to recommending each other for skills and also creating them for us to use all takes time away from other reading and writing and learning they might be […]

The year 2020 was interesting, to say the least. Today in class we’ll reflect on the past year. Annotate the article A Year Like No Other, The Year in Pictures 2020 on NowComment (Links to an external site.). Add at least three comments or replies to other people’s comments, or to the images themselves. Comment on one of the posts that is […]

One thing I did this weekend was I made a widget box work on everybody’s profile. That might not seem that important, but here’s how it might be. If you go to my profile, you will see two Web Stories in the biography section of my About You widget. This is what I would like students to do to. So […]

Instructions: While reading The Hate U Give, you can publish your annotations on NowComment. You should be writing annotations in your own words.  NowComment Login for first-time student users: You received an email (possibly more than one) inviting you to join NowComment. Find this email by searching your email inbox for anything from NowComment. Open the email and click on […]

PART 1: Comment on the introductory post Your name and pronouns (she/her, he/him, they/them) Where you live and where you’re from The languages you speak The title of the book you are reading now OPTIONAL SENTENCE FRAMES  Hey! My name is _________ and I use (she/her, he/him, they/them) pronouns. I live in Berkeley/Oakland/Virginia/Mexico, and I am from _____________________. I speak […]

Hang Out on Your Profile Add a new profile picture and cover image. Create frequent updates with writing, images, audio, video, or links. Friend other youth from around the country, and comment on their updates. Gather your thoughts privately or with others in a Doc, using  YV Docs as a writer’s notebook. Build your profile by adding widgets in your […]

Here’s a list of metaphors we thought of to describe a Youth Voices profile. It can be your personal online… …locker (where you can put video, audio, images and text that are important to you) …homeroom (where you stay connected with your Youth Voices connections) …home base (where you come back to re-focus) …home page (all of the work you’ve […]