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Let's quickly look back at what

happened ~3 years ago...

Who are we?

Jan-Mikael Rybicki

Henri Tukiainen

Juhana Nieminen

Components of a Good Solution

What kind of feedback is meaningful?

2010: Evaluation of our online system & process

Abstract concepts: What does this mean?

Abstract concepts:

Concrete Examples

Links

Weaknesses

  • Student cannot download and save feedback
  • Teacher cannot quickly determine whether students have responded to feedback
  • Marking texts is time-consuming
  • Course too short for multiple revisions

What kind of feedback encourages learning?

Location in text: Where in the text?

Location in text:

Clearly highlighted in color

Unmeaningful feedback:

“Avoid using the progressive tenses. When making generalizations, use the present perfect tense.”

Strengths

  • Easily accessed by students
  • Comments clearly marked in color
  • Requires no handling of files by teacher
  • Encourages students to explore via links

Students able to

submit text directly into the feedback tool

quickly identify location in text of the comment

open links to further explanations

navigate between comments

download for offline use

Teachers tool should be able to

store and organize teacher’s

web links

earlier comments

mark the text clearly using

color highlighting

text formatting (bold, italics)

edit and delete comments

Who are you?

Meaningful feedback:

NEW VERSION

Export function (e.g., xml, pdf)

Automatic marking tool

detects bad language features

Text comparison tool

Before vs. After

Does not give correct answers, but instead…

  • Pinpoints and briefly explains problems in text
  • Recommends strategies for solving problem
  • Provides materials for further learning

Replace progressive tenses with the simple form

In academic writing, you should try to avoid progressive tenses (i.e., those that end in –ing) in favor of either (1) present simple or (2) present perfect verb tenses:

BAD (Progressive tense):

Many applications, such as DVD players and streaming Internet video, ARE USING variable bit rate compressed video streams.

BETTER (present simple tense):

Many applications, such as DVD players and streaming Internet video, USE variable bit rate compressed video streams.

Use of tenses in academic writing

Workshop schedule

10:00 - 11:30

Over a conference lunch @SULOP10 preliminary specifications were discussed & the search started for a new solution

  • Introductions
  • Background - why a tool was created
  • Demo - on-screen (with discussion as we proceed)

11:30 - 12:00

Coffee Break (Restaurant Cozinha do Cardeal)

Feedback today

12:00 - 13:30

Hands on use of tool (teacher materials available)

Materials available at: http://bit.ly/17YlKP9

2+ years in use in core curriculum teaching

Demo

100+ teachers

3000+ students

100 000+ comments

KungFu Writing is

KungFu Writing

Give rich feedback on any written assignments

Draw your feedback from a dynamic comment template database

innovative

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Work online, using a flexible and easy-to-use commenting interface

SOMEWHAT SIMILAR

Adobe

co-ment

Moodle

TurnitIn

BUT...

PaperCheck

Microsoft

MarkIn

Submit assignment

Blackboard

1. different angle in feedback ideology 2. collaborative work may not be possible 3. Re-usage issues

Write a revised version

Give feedback

Read feedback

A feedback tool for language teachers

Work faster

Only write each comment once - you can give most of your feedback in just two clicks

Teacher

  • Repeating the same comments over and over
  • Giving feedback is slow
  • No time for detailed feedback
  • Hard to track learning results

Student

  • Feedback is too general
  • Markings are hard to understand
  • Comments are not thoroughly explained

Give better feedback

Give rich feedback to your students using detailed descriptions, flexible formatting and link to additional materials

Be innovative

Analyze your feedback using statistics and overviews, collaborate with colleagues

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