Blog Post #3

Peer Review

In Paige Ellis' class blog , she is trying to figure out a way to make peer review not seem to harsh. In her blog she says, "Constructive criticism is not always an easy or pleasant task, and it is something that is not always appreciated" I agree with her. Many times people just blurt out whatever comes to mind when reading something, not meaning to be hurtful to anyone. Their peers try to help when someone makes a mistake, but it can also be taken in the wrong way. Paige Ellis is concerned whether or not she should publicly or privately give her critique to her peers. Dr. Strange gets asked the question of "What she should do in her situation?". His response was “Help him/her. You are going to be a teacher. Get in some practice. We are part of a learning community. Privately or publicly. You decide. And then tell me why. That is practice too on making decisions. You will have to make them as a teacher. I think there are arguments for either choice. I have used both approaches.” He is right! We are all going to have to make the decisions on not just this kind of question, but on many others that arise in our future classrooms. She decides that it is best to do the peer review both publicly and privately.



In the video, What is Peer Editing? they talk about three main points. These points deal with what a person should do when editing something for someone else. The first point, is to always compliment the person being reviewed. Compliments should consist of what you liked about the assignment and other positive reactions you might have after reading. Second, the person should give suggestions, for example: changing word choice, giving more details, the topic went off course a bit and the sentences needed to be corrected. Suggestions will help him/her to become more aware of things that need help. Last is Correction, the the person should be corrected in things like: grammar, punctuation and spelling.

In the slideshow, Peer Edit With Perfection Tutorial they showed different ways to help a peer critique something. I think this slideshow is a great tool to use. Not only should it be used for this class, but others as well.

In the video, Writing Peer Review Top 10 Mistakes they showed kids doing a peer reviews and what not to do. I really enjoyed this video, because it was put in terms that no matter what age they could understand what not to do.



In editing my group members blog, I understand that maybe some things for example: punctuation and grammar should be talked about in a comment box. I think that real detailed things that they have to say should be in an e-mail. That way he/she could talk back and forth and give an example of what we can do to make the post correct.