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July 27, 2008
Keeping a reflective blog
July 27, 2008
Why do we keep a Sounds Good blog? Because we have to, that’s the simple answer. For projects in JISC’s Users and Innovation (U&I) programme, maintaining a ‘reflective blog’ is part of the deal. Would Sounds Good do it if it weren’t expected? I’m not sure.The U&I programme manager hasn’t been prescriptive about project blogs, thank goodness. So ...
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July 24, 2008
How do you get students to come to a focus group?
July 24, 2008
Focus groups are popular with researchers. Everyone is holding them! Personally, having been in a few myself, I’ve got reservations – mainly about what can happen when the group contains a dominant, highly-opinionated and apparently knowledgeable individual. Yet I could see a potential benefit of a student focus group on Sounds Good: a way of getting beyond the ...
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Technical considerations
July 24, 2008
Can you help?The Sounds Good project has been about lecturers using digital audio to give students feedback on their coursework. Right from the beginning, one of my concerns has been to make things as simple, quick and convenient as possible for everyone – staff and students. Any obstacle is likely to put some people off, I reckon. So ...
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What do students think?
July 24, 2008
Students taking part in Sounds Good were overwhelmingly positive about receiving audio feedback on their coursework. They frequently remarked approvingly about its personal nature and the detail provided, saying it showed that the lecturer had carefully considered their work. There was particular approval if the feedback was received quickly. Some students appreciated the advantage of replaying the feedback. ...
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July 14, 2008
What’s it like?
July 14, 2008
I’ve been looking at the comments sent in by the Sounds Good team about their experience of using audio for feedback. I haven’t got all the information yet, but the picture is fairly clear. What do they think of it?The staff team are, on balance, strongly in favour of audio feedback; most have clearly said that they intend ...
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July 13, 2008
In some circumstances
July 13, 2008
The hypothesis being tested by Sounds Good is:• Digital audio can be used to save assessors time AND give students better feedback.Most of the data is in now, so do we have a verdict? Cautiously, yes. It’s hedged around with ‘health warnings’ and the detail may change, but this is the picture at present.On the Sounds Good project ...
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June 22, 2008
‘Sounds Good’ goes international
June 22, 2008
Emerge projects are required to disseminate, so I’ve been doing my bit on behalf of Sounds Good. Not that this has been a burden, you understand. A conference in the US, followed by one in Canada sounds good, I thought. And so it has proved.At both the International Consortium for Educational Development (ICED) conference in Salt Lake City, ...
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June 19, 2008
Expert Canadian Second Lifer seeks British contacts
June 19, 2008
I'm at a conference in Canada and have just attended a really lively session from an excellent presenter about the uses of Second Life. Afterwards I spoke to him and asked whether he any British contacts interested in Second Life. Answer: No. Would he like some? Answer: Yes. Would it be OK to put his details into the Emerge ...
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June 01, 2008
It’s the education, stupid!
June 01, 2008
Last weekend, my son brought me a new toy, a cheap MP3 recorder. How cheap? Forty quid. Compared with the gadgets we’re using on Sounds Good which cost £250 a throw, that’s cheap! The most frustrating thing has been waiting a week before I could begin to try it out. Life has been exceptionally busy – blame my ...
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May 11, 2008
Straws in the wind
May 11, 2008
“How’s it going?” That’s a common question, one which is easy to ask and often hard to answer. Why might it be difficult? Well, first, what’s being enquired about? My health or some combination of the various activities in my life? Second, does the questioner really want to know? Can I unburden myself for the next twenty minutes, ...
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