- wanted to finish the book before being able to comment
- worked best when the amount of text was smallest
- *but* lots of short paragraphs = discussion too fragmented
- don’t want to commit to a comment which may later turn out to be false / look silly
- directive questions needed to focus exercise: too wide
#tagginganna
Creating pedagogic models around
searchable tags
&
reader-commentaries
on e-texts
Alex Moseley, Stuart Johnson, Mark Rawlinson,
Jennifer Jones
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Madame Bovary - Flaubert
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Student
“...the new project [the tutor] helped create was very helpful. We were able to analyse specific pasages and it helped to prepare for our next seminar”
UoL English Year 2
Various texts
[Digress-it]
"They are writing in their own voice - this is much better quality than the one they adopt in their formal essays. They know what they are talking about, real engagement."
Tutor
http://bit.ly/cgnHnx
Issues
DL Courses
[Univ. of Leicester]
WikiOmeros
[Warwick Univ.]
Wiki without a Name
[Birmingham City Univ.
RDUES]
What next?
- Autumn term: new pedagogic models, new cohort
- Using WwaN and Digress-it
- Exploring use in DL with PDF commenting
Contact us
Case studies: tinyurl.com/tagginganna
Stuart's blog: studentdevpt.com/tag/tagginganna/
Early 2011: open results, case studies, pedagogic models & technical reviews