implementation showcases
Most of the material on this site aggregates across many courses. These showcases go the other way: each one follows a single course through a full Sway implementation — the assignments the instructor designed, the discussions the students actually had, and the evidence of what changed along the way. They are built from the course's own instructor report, the anonymized record Sway generates from every assignment, with institutions and individuals deidentified.
They are longer reads than the rest of the site. The main narrative of each takes about ten minutes; the expandable sections underneath roughly double that.
Summer 2026 · a public university
Where distress becomes disorder
A five-week abnormal-psychology course spent every week on one question — where a hard human experience ends and a disorder begins. Twenty-three one-to-one debates on grief, PTSD, ADHD, gender dysphoria, and DID, with the record of individual students changing their minds.
Read the showcase →Spring 2026 · a small liberal arts college
A semester of disagreement
One course, six assignments, 144 one-on-one conversations. Students spent twelve weeks debating campus speech, social media and AI, inequality, immigration, abortion, and climate — each time matched with a classmate who disagreed.
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The raw material these showcases are built from.
Instructor reports
AI-written summaries of classroom debates — the shifts, concessions, and sticking points.
Browse the reports →Sample chats
Anonymized transcripts of one-on-one student debates, shared with permission.
Read the threads →For instructors
How to run a Sway assignment in your own course. Free for instructors and students.
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