I am a huge fan of using different media formats in order to give the best possible feedback to students. Feedback is not all created the same and I do think that we waste a lot of time by creating ineffective feedback that never helps the student learn and improve. If our feedback does not…
In preparation for an upcoming presentation about giving digital feedback to students, I wanted to run through Goobric again just to make sure there weren’t any changes I was unaware of. I recorded it so if you have not used Goobric before, you can see how easy it is to give rubric feedback inside of…
Swivl recently released an update to their software, also a new app (https://www.swivl.com/pro-plus/), that allows you to use multiple iPads to record at once. You can have up to 5 iPads recording video, and audio, at once. This allows you to easily record up to 5 different students, or groups, in a classroom at once.…
For my first time teaching a college level course (4 week online seminar class for College of Education students), I wanted to make sure I was following all of the research I have read since my last time teaching. One of the biggest things I have read was on the impact of effective feedback and…
Back in 10th grade, I started playing golf as my spring semester sport. The three years before that I had been playing tennis but we moved to a different district, and they did not have boy’s tennis. I had only golfed a little bit before then but it was a sport that seemed like fun…
One very important aspect of the learning process is how feedback is used to help guide the learner to improve and grow. We must focus on giving effective feedback otherwise we will not be continuing the learning process. When the only feedback that we give is a grade or a percentage, that is not going…
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