Giving Students Audio-Visual Feeback
Cross-posted from: Academic Technology @ Keene State College. Thanks to Judy Brophy for this great article.
Let's imagine that you're correcting a student paper and you note an error. You wish your student was right there so you could just talk briefly to her... but you can't, so you pick up your pen and start to write in the margin. You note her mistake and ask a few probing questions to try and help her for her next version of her draft.
STOP! You can provide meaningful auditory feedback to your student by using Jing desktop video tool. You can record your comments (you will need an external microphone or your computer must have a built in microphone) and upload the video with one click. Your student will get her paper with a url embedded as a comment near the the area that needs attention. Now she can hear your feedback in the context of the problem.
Jim Glading, adjunct professor at Southern NH University and Daniel Webster College used a Jing video to give feedback to a student who needed help with a citation for a paper.
Read the rest of the article and watch the video interview with Jim Glading here.
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Jing is awesome! I love it!!!!!!!!
We have been using Jing at St. Petersburg College since it first came out. We also have many instructors using Jing for video feedback for papers submitted. (http://it.spcollege.edu/it/blog/?p=173). The only issue is the bandwidth. One instructor had so many students viewing the videos, the free bandwidth was used up. To pay for additional bandwidth is expensive. It would be nice for TechSmith to have some type of educational pricing for more bandwidth.
@Alan Shapiro - Thanks for your comment. I'm excited to hear that you're using Jing so effectively at your college. Here is a possible solution to the bandwidth problem:
I assume your school has some servers of their own, right? Instead of hosting the video feedback on screencast.com, you can configure Jing so it uploads the videos via FTP to your own server. That way, the school's bandwidth and storage is being used and I assume they don't have a limit for professors?
Here is an article on the FTP configuration: http://help.jingproject.com/share/the-ftp-button/
and
http://help.jingproject.com/tips-tricks-and-advanced/custom-code-advanced-topic/
I hope this was helpful. Let me know how it goes.
Anton Bollen, TechSmith
Jing rocks for helping me give student tips. Here's an article about my experience:
Educause Quarterly article Show Me! On Demand Budget Friendly Instructional Videos
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