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April 2008

April 01, 2008

Use Video for Feedback?

April 01, 2008

Just as the Sounds Good team is getting comfortable with giving audio feedback, along comes another idea: video feedback. Last week at the JISC Learning and Teaching Experts Group meeting in Bristol, Brett Lucas of the English Subject Centre told me they have a case study on their website of someone using Camtasia screen capture software to record ...

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April 04, 2008

The value of warm voices

April 04, 2008

We have known for ages that feedback comes across really differently depending on the medium used, which is why in the past I always tried to give at least some of the feedback face-to-face in person, either in groups or to individuals. What excites me about the 'Sounds Good' project is that it gives us a chance to ...

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April 06, 2008

Reflection on reflections

April 06, 2008

Leeds Met’s website is strong on reflection. Yes, I know that’s an ambiguous statement. What I mean is that ‘reflection’ is a prominent feature of the University’s home page at www.leedsmet.ac.uk. Down the right-hand side, in the ‘Leeds Met Daily’ section, are six links: ‘VC Reflects’, ‘International Reflections’ and so on. Following a link takes you to a ...

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April 20, 2008

Tips on audio feedback

April 20, 2008

One of the planned outputs from Sounds Good is a set of practice guidelines on using digital audio to give feedback to students. Of course, the guidelines aren’t ready yet. We haven’t even done most of the data-gathering and it’s still about three months before we’re due to publish. But is it possible to say anything about how ...

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April 28, 2008

Audio feedback simulation exercise

April 28, 2008

What’s it like as a student to receive audio feedback on your written work? What’s it like for the lecturer who gives audio feedback? Here’s a simulation of the experience.‘Book review exercise’ (Book review exercise.doc) outlines a task for a fictional student at a fictional university. It also contains the outline assessment criteria and what the student wrote. ...

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