I say new because this is new to me, and also the students, and I haven’t seen this elsewhere. That does though not necessarily mean that I think no one has ever done this before.
This method is about letting the students post recent news about the topic of the course, for example glaciology and water science, on a web page.
Each student posts a news item about twice a semester. They write a short summary of the main points of the news item, and some related background.
They then introduce, explain, the news to the class.
This has proved to be lots of fun, the students are more interested in the topic and are pretty good in finding interesting news related to the class topics.
Examples from the water science class are here and from the glaciology class are here.
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