Moving Writers Forward
Using (Free) Dictation, Audio and Screencasting Technologies to Provide Feedback
Webinar for CMU’s Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning
When they are engaged in the writing process, students need timely, specific and goal-oriented feedback. During this workshop, we will briefly discuss research-based elements of successful writing instruction that focus on feedback. We will then explore how to make textual feedback more efficient with a comment bank and voice-to-text dictation, audio recordings and screencasts to efficiently provide feedback to our writers.
- In what ways does feedback help keep students engaged in their relationship to the content, the instructor, and one another?
- CCCC’s “Position Statement of Principles and Example Effective Practices for Online Writing Instruction (OWI)“
- Wray’s RISE model for offering meaningful feedback (Reflect, Inquire, Suggest, Elevate).
- Emily Wray’s “Five Minutes of Fame” Talk about the RISE Model
- What Research Says About Driving Growth for Writers With Practice, Feedback and Revision by Troy Hicks
Resources to Try
- Tools for Making Written Feedback More Efficient
- Build and use Comment Bank with
- Annotate Pro for GDocs and Word
- Also, for GDocs, consider:
- Use Voice-to-Text
- Dictanote (Chrome) or dictanote.co
- Siri (iOS and OSX)
- Dragon Dictation (iOS)
- Google Docs (Web)
- SpeechNotes (Android)
- How to Enable Dictation for Voice Input on iPhone, Mac, Android, and Windows Devices (Gadgets 360)
- Build and use Comment Bank with
- Tools for Providing Audio Feedback
- Vocaroo (Online)
- Voxer (iOS and Android)
- Reach out and speak to Troy
- Examples
- Voxer Versatility: New Ways to Communicate by Brian Sztabnik
- Explore how educators are using the Voxer app – #eduvoxers – by UPenn GSE
- Examples
- Reach out and speak to Troy
- Also consider:
- 10 best voice recorder apps for Android (Android Authority)
- Voice Memos (iOS)
- Kaizena (with Google Docs)
- Tools for Providing Video Feedback
- Examples
- Consider
- Panopto (CMU Chipcast Guide)
- Quick Time (OSX)
- Screencastify (Chrome)
- Screencast-o-matic (Web)
- Jing (Download and install: Mac, PC)
- Camtasia (Download and install: Mac, PC)
- Explain Everything (iOS, Android, Chrome, Windows
- How to Record Your Windows, Mac, Linux, Android, or iPhone Screen (How To Geek)
- Adding in Draftback to Google Docs to have students reflect on their writing process
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