Questions in the news

The idea of this activity was to research and discuss interesting news stories, but unfortunately (as one of the students pointed out) we didn't actually get around to the discussion stage. In future, it will have to be organised so that we cut to that part sooner. Still, there is a lot of good interaction happening around the computer, with students helping each other to find information and designing quizzes for each other. You can see some of the questions that they came up with at the Yahoo groups page. We had barely enough time to post responses to the questions before the session came to an end. It's nice to have the students' responses online but as I suggested earlier, I think in future I will change the second part of this activity into a discussion, because many of the students want that kind of activity from the club. As I am discovering, it's a question of balancing the online work with the skills development that students are after.