ESP Website Clinic: Student Resources - Documents & Downloads

Hi everyone!

Why haven't we  gotten any student posts on our website?  Let's brainstorm here how to make the posts we've made even better and get students active on-line!

D&D is where we've posted a potpourri of good stuff.  However, procedures need streamlining. Let's think it through...Students read the titles and possibly the brief description and decide if they are sold on pushing the download button to download a document to their desktop or to link to an article from another website (seems like this should be a link button). Unfortunately the view button is not working.  So they have to take another step to read (reported to webmaster---time is money!).  If they do all that they get brownie points!

Listing our repertoire and the questions they brought to my mind for your input:

1. Button "Documents and Downloads" Doesn't sound very exciting to get them to "push" it.  What about something like: What are we reading?  or Good Reads....????

2. Running Dry - link to The Economist - short intro with world map and 24 Readers' comments.  Seems like students should be able to comment on what's posted -- pushing a comment button (below entry) that would redirect them to student forum (technological possibilities?).  That would make this more interactive.  In this case, the description could include: Add your own comment to this. 

3. America's Most Trustworthy Companies - download exercises with answer key followed by an article written by John J. Ray (source?) 
4. Hotdesking- download exercises with answer key based on a recording by Professor Crystal on this topic (BTW- I put in URL in google and it didn't produce recording?) These look like really solid exercises and good topics that would work well in class. Does this work  for self-study or homework? (I don't see mine doing it all, checking answers and then reading full article without me there to sell it!)

5. Presentation Tips - link to a New York Times article
6. Technology Cartoon - download of cartoon (source?) with a question for discussion  Again I feel like they need to be able to comment on these.  The cartoon looks like more of a teacher resource?

Finally,  what kinds of posts will motivate students take the time to download and read on their own? 

What kinds of posts are useful for us as teachers assign or recommend students do something with ( in the case where exercises are not included). 

Could students be given the opportunity to post? 

Looking forward to your great ideas....and even better questions...Let's get our students on-ESP-line!