Graphic Representation of the Dialogic Process

By discussing the way this index looks you can clearly see a number of drafts with comments interspersed from other sources. This is a picture of the dialogue surrounding several students drafts. They can see that there is much more happening in the class than just a single person creating a single text. It is easy to show them how they have all created a text together or and thus a greater meaning from the dialogue taking place. It is easy to show how dialogism took place by showing students the comments they received during the drafting process and how the comments became voices in their final draft. Similarly it is easy to point out how the multi-voiced or more dialogic papers seem to address the concept of audience much better. While yes there may be other programs that might save drafts and comments, Ceilidh makes this much more simple to access and see pictured on the screen, thus it is simpler to demonstrate to students. And of course don't forget this is all done from a web based system. So there is no need to access several programs like a word processor and email to accomplish this task.