Monthly Archives: February 2012

To Grade or Not to Grade ?

My Options In recent posts I’ve discussed using a variety of ‘tools’ to support giving feedback to students on their academic work. I’ve considered (and tried) Google Docs and skydrive as well as Grade Mark instead of using my own system: … Continue reading

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Highlighting the Issue

Feedback via email Below is an example of the way I sometimes send feedback to students on work they have asked me to look at by email. When returning their work by email attachment I explain the code that I use … Continue reading

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Making the Grade

Thank you Jebar (Ahmed, LTA in the School of Education) for your patience and support today with how to create an assignment on Turnitin via Unilearn, the University’s VLE and using GradeMark for giving feedmark. Jebar also shared his experience of … Continue reading

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A bit like the ‘blind leading the blind’.

I am of course referring to myself as I have been attempting to e-tutor myself using Google Docs and sharing a document with myself to test using the comment stream. Laurillard (1993) does suggest that a dialogue can involve intrapersonal … Continue reading

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Getting in to the Zone (of Proximal Development)

I’ve appreciated feedback on some of the ideas I’ve had for the e-tutoring project; these include using a variety of resources for sharing documents online with students to provide formative feedback relating to their academic skills and coursework assignments; for … Continue reading

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