A - Collaboration B - Citation managementC - Assessment with Comment banks Screen capturing / screencasting____________________A - Collaboration

Problems

• 1 - how to promote more frequent writing, revision and review by students • 2 - how to monitor students in the writing process • 3 - how to invite higher rates of student

Looking for a way to

• more effeciently / effectively model writing process • invite students to actively participate in realizing a model of the writing process • improve accountabiliy of students in following / realizing all steps of the writing process

(brainstorming, idea, outline, first draft, revision, final draft)• provide student feedback at a time convenient to you • promote more frequent peer review / sharing / modelling

Solution - collaborative writing - real time, online

Tools? Google docs ACTIVITY

• explore these examples• http://j.mp/emailwriting

• observe - what is happening here?• http://j.mp/summarywriting

• observe - what is happening here?

Etherpads ACTIVITY

• explore these examples• http://buckinsand.titanpad.com/143

• observe - what is this? why? • http://buckinsand.titanpad.com/6

• observe - what is this? why?

Discuss possible applications of these tools for writing

• discuss this example• model writing process with an incomplete outline

• headings • question • brainstorm • research / collect information • list in point form • sort in point form • create an outline • create a first draft

• create a final draft

ACTIVITY

• go to this etherpad - http://buckinsand.titanpad.com/157• work collaboratively on the following question

• how could you realize collaborative writing with your students - your ideas • brainstorm

• possible topics for students to work on together • basic / beginner students • intermediate students • advanced students

______________B - Citation managementProblems

• 1 - students fail to fully understand the importance of proper citation work as a means to avoid being accused of plagiarism

• 2 - students have difficulty in accurately formatting and completing entry of all required information on resources that they choose to cite

• 3 - it is time consuming for both student and teacher • for the student

• to learn, understand the importance of, and to accurately realize • for the teacher

• to teach, support and ensure correct format when under time pressures

Solution - use of citation management tools

• http://www.slideshare.net/buckinsand/citation-management-today-5959080 • benefits?

• citation fields are fully and clearly give to students to ensure full completion• final formatting is done by the tool • can be more easily supported by teacher

Demonstration of basics with Zotero

• for demonstration purposes - identify a topic to research - (citation management?)• create a collection• create entries manually • create entries automatically (i.e. Amazon, online databases)• set up the formatting of references automatically (i.e. MLA, APA) • insert into a Word document

discuss more advanced options

• plugin into MS Word • for intext citation work

• facilitates sharing citations with students (import / export function)• collaborative research work

ideas for introduction to students

• graduated introduction to "a" citation management tool • Step 1 - initially invite students to

• import citations that you have authored • use these citations in their research • insert these citations in their list of references

then..

• Step 2 - invite students to "add" to this pre-authored list with a web based resource (introduce other resource types later on)

then..

• Step 3 - invite students to "create" their own

known issues

• continuity • teacher introduces it in one course.. another teacher uses still another program in another

course; student retention / support suffers ... promotes abandonment• need for Department wide agreement on format (APA, MLA), tool (Zotero,

Mendeley), introduction (which course, to what degree?), support resources (screencasts, Library)

• important to understand the limitations of each tool • (i.e. Zotero requires users to use Firefox as their browser)

______________C - Screen capturing / screencastingProblems

• 1 - students have difficulty learning how to perform basic functions / sequences on the computer• 2 - students have difficulty remembering how to perform basic functions / sequences on the

computer • 3 - teachers have scarce time in class to teach students new or basic computer based functions and

thus rule out using internet based tools that could be useful

Solution - produce videos that show how to realize setup, use of a computer based function

• http://delicious.com/buck_in_sand/screencasting • the attraction?

• free• easy to produce (for students as well as teachers) • easy to share (via email, blog, website, Edmodo, Twitter, Facebook)• reusable • available to students 24/7 - when needed• multimodal - audio / video

• thus opening up new possibilities • student authored "help" videos

• invites script writing• motivates by being an authentic & relevent activity

• my favourite tool? • Screenr

• http://www.screenr.com/user/buckinsand/rss

ACTIVITY

• explore these examples• http://screenr.com/tdcs

• observe - what is this? how is it useful? • http://screenr.com/Ifls

• observe - what is this? how is it useful? • http://screenr.com/Njqs

• observe - what is this? how is it useful?

ACTIVITY

• realize your own Screencast with Screenr • http://www.screenr.com/

• post your screencast link here so that it can be shared with others

known issues

• dependency on the Cloud • if network / internet access is poor or unavailable .. these resources are typically not

available • work around? download them

• free ... for now!!!! • may not always be free

• limitations on time • 5 minutes