Opened Practices Users with the Title: Teaching Assistant, PhD candidate

Teaching Assistant

I assist in the implementation of Individual Education Programmes for students and help monitor their progress and provide support for individual students inside and outside the classroom to enable them to fully participate in activities

French TA and PhD candidate at the University of Virginia.
I was a very early Sakai/Collab adopter at UVA and as Teaching + Technology Support Partner in the French Department, I intensively contributed to the use of Sakai/Collab in the French Dpt.
Among the projects I developed as a TA and TTSP :
- Collab sites to enhance collaboration between TAs/Instructors/Professors teaching the same course (collaborative sites) : archives and discussion groups to develop courses ;
- I use intensively Collab/Sakai (course sites) in the classes I teach as a platform to communicate with my students (mainly the resources, the discussion tool, the
- But the most developed project I worked on was for an advanced class about Contemporary France. I was TA for two professors and was in charge of developing a project with Collab that would eventually is the creation by the student, as a final project/paper, of a website. Except for the website tool that was used to create the website (iWeb), every step of the project (including the storage of the websites) was developed on Skai/Collab.