Friday, 27 May 2011

More on feedback

A theme that was very evident at today's Improving Assessment and Feedback Symposium was that colleagues in other Schools were well down the road of non-textual feedback, with podcasts and video commentaries becoming commonplace. The message from students is that this is really welcome. There appears to be strong evidence that students either misconstrue, ignore or can't read the scribbled feedback comments that most of us in Computing still compose for them. It was suggested that the interpersonal element in spoken feedback has a strong effect on students too.

The University of Leeds has some useful resources for anyone inspired to have a go: http://www.sddu.leeds.ac.uk/online_resources/podcasting/case_studies.html

Once inspired, you can download a free copy of Audacity free and be up and running in a few minutes: http://www.how-to-podcast-tutorial.com/13-basic-podcasting-software.htm

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