Communicate: Digital Feedback 4.2.2

Communicate: Digital Feedback 4.2.2

Dynamic digital feedback can be shared in a multitude of ways.  Here are three ways that will not only provide authentic assessment and communication, but will reinforce expectations and provide good modeling for all students involved:

1.  http://edu.glogster.com/  Glogster is an exciting resource for students to use to make digital posters.  When students complete their projects, they post them in the digital classroom for viewing.  Fellow students then use a scoring rubric to assess classmate work in 4 categories.   Each student is required to practice good digital citizenship as they score a minimum of 5 other student projects.  The scores and substantive comments are left in the comment section for each student project.  Ideally, each student receives at least 3 comments from classmates and 1 comment from the teacher.

2. www.prezi.com  Prezi has delivered an amazing resource for student projects.  It is best used for projects in a collaborative sense- where 2 - 4 students develop a presentation and share in the research. Furthermore, like in the case of glogster, students can view each other's creations, assess it, and leave substantive comments.  From my experience, students work even harder to impress their peers than they do to impress their teacher!



3. www.edmodo.com  Students can complete assignments on Edmodo and teachers can both grade and leave digital comments for feedback.  Unlike the other two options, these are private assessments and the grade and comments remain private as well.  Attached is a screen shot of a comment and of a panel of students, some of whom did not complete the assignment.

Finally, one of my favorite ways to give digital feedback is to have students vote on the top 4  venn diagrams created with googledocs.  I then take a volunteer from each team and set up a mystery subject venn diagram.  At the prescribed appointment time in the evening, all of the volunteers log in and are added to the google doc.  I then make a screen cast of the amazing job they did creating it.  Because of student privacy, I cannot add this to the collection, but wanted to put it out there as a viable idea.