Literacy teaching and learning in e-Learning contexts

Appendix B

Student focus group questions (first visit)

1. Can you tell me about [DESCRIPTION OF PROJECT]? What sorts of things have you been doing? (Could go around the circle with each child adding to the “story”).
   
2. Are these the kinds of things you usually do [at reading/writing/story time/in your class] or are they different? [Prompt for differences/similarities. We will need to prompt in relation to the specifics of the project, e.g., on-line mentors, etc]. How are they different?
   
3. What sorts of things are you learning?
   Prompts: 
   • Did you learn things about other people in your class/your teacher/parents/people in the community/online that you didn’t know before?
   • Did you learn things about yourself you didn’t know before?
   • Did you learn things about being a [reader/viewer/listener/writer//performer/ presenter] that you didn’t know before?
     
 
4. Can you think of a time when you noticed you had got better at something or learned something new, or got a new idea from working on [PROJECT]? (Give students reflection time, i.e., time to think, or write/draw “notes”, or share with a partner before reporting back). Can you tell me about that time?
   Prompts:  
   • What did you learn?
   • What were you doing?
   • Were you working with other students, the teacher, parents, people in the community, people on your own? Face-to-face? Online?
 
5. So far, what parts of [PROJECT] do you like the most?
   
6. What parts of [PROJECT] do you like the least?
   
7. So far, what parts of [PROJECT] are you most proud of, and why?
   
8. Are there any ways [PROJECT] could be even better?
   
9. Do you think other teachers should do projects like [PROJECT] with students? Why or why not?
   
10. Is there anything else you would like to say?

Student focus group questions (second visit)

1. Last time I visited I heard about [DESCRIPTION OF PROJECT]. Can you tell me what you have been doing on [PROJECT] since then? (Could go around the circle with each child adding to the “story”)
   
2. Are these the kinds of things you usually do [at reading/writing/story time/in your class] or are they different? [Prompt for differences/similarities. We will need to prompt in relation to the specifics of the project, e.g., on-line mentors, etc]. How are they different?
   
3. What sorts of things are you learning?
   Prompts: 
   • Did you learn things about other people in your class/your teacher/parents/people in the community/online that you didn’t know before?
   • Did you learn things about yourself you didn’t know before?
   • Did you learn things about being a [reader/viewer/listener/writer/performer/ presenter] that you didn’t know before?
     
   
   
4. Can you think of a time you noticed you had got better at something or learned something new, or got a new idea from working on [PROJECT]? (Give students reflection time, i.e., time to think, or write/draw “notes”, or share with a partner before reporting back). Can you tell me about that time?
   Prompts:  
   • What did you learn?
   • What were you doing?
   • Were you working with other students, the teacher, parents, people in the community, people, on your own? Face-to-face? Online?
5. Overall, what parts of [PROJECT] do you like the most?
   
6. Overall, what parts of [PROJECT] do you like the least?
   
7. Overall, what part of [PROJECT] are you most proud of, and why?
   
8. Are there any ways [PROJECT] could be even better?
   
9. Do you think other teachers should do projects like [PROJECT] with students? Why or why not?
   
10. Is there anything else you would like to say?