Interactive Student/Learner Notebooks, part 2

Here are my modified guidelines with the added #hashtags information. I've also included instructions on adding a personalized cover based on ideas from Mr. Cassutto's webpage.

And, the guidelines are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, so feel free to use and modify as you see fit.

Interactive Student/Learner Notebooks

I've been working on sessions and scheduling for this year's orientation (which starts next week), and yesterday I got around to working on the session about interactive student notebooks. As I was modifying another teacher's guidelines I struggled with how I was going to explain how I wanted my teachers to create both a table of contents and an index. Mostly, I was struggling with how I wanted to explain keywords for the index in what will be their TL - English. All the teachers were interviewed and we are happy with their English skills, but by the nature of calendars, we don't have the luxury of waiting for jet lag to dissipate before beginning training. So, I'm always looking for "shortcuts" that may reduce how much I have to talk. Then it hit me: they use social media (WeChat, among others) and already know about #hashtags.

Hashtags, in a 21st century way, are really keywords for social media. How else do people try to communicate complex concepts in the fewest characters and create cross linked trends? (One can argue that emojiis communicate complex ideas in a single character, but they don't really cross link topics. 😒)

So, I'm going to go back today and modify my guidelines even more to include a fourth column in the table of contents for #hashtags; to list page number, date, and #hashtags to each page header; and instructions on how to create an index based on those #hashtags.

After I get my guidelines finished, I'll post them on the blog as a follow up.