The feedback I received on my project description post last week was amazing. In my portfolio on angel, Susan mentioned that my TechQuest was starting to take on a two-pronged approach. Initially my focus was on improving the quality of teacher to student feedback all while reducing the amount of time and energy required to offer this process to students. I quickly realized that the best way to ease the stress on the teacher would be to share the responsibility with the students.
The goal has expanded to establishing quality feedback loops where students and teacher alike are active participants in the process. While each has different roles to play, I believe it to be the best way to allow students to receive timely, high quality, and time efficient feedback on their creative works.
I used
delicious to pull together an annotated list of resources for my TechQuest. I had been using
Diigo exclusively for social bookmarking but decided to test out
Delicious and was happy with the results. I found that I like using the two in tandem. Using Diigo's highlight & post-it, and group features have been amazing for our SIG. However, I find Delicious to have much more efficient tagging and overall better look (which might not seem important, but when you stare at it long enough you begin to realize the importance). I initially was going to supply my annotated links using Diigo, but I was having problems with Diigo displaying everything tagged with "techquest". I triple checked the spelling on every resource and rather than drive myself completely crazy, I created a delicious account (so a yahoo account :) ).
While the tag searches within my social bookmarking tools led me in some interesting directions, my trusted rss subscriptions really got me started. I looked through the blogs that I frequent and skimmed through posts tagged with "feedback" and "peer review" yielding pretty good results. Many of these blogs have links to blogs that the authors read, so I started to expand my tag search to this second tier of blogs. Teacher blogs proved to be the most effective resource for me. I think that's because they have a lot of tips and tricks, where other published articles tend to be too general.
I was really happy to add five new blogs to my netvibes that I can continue to visit in the future :)
In case you missed it,
Click Here for my list of annotated links.
3 comments:
Great time saving surfing strategies! I have always found searching Delicious a great place to start, whenever I want to locate curriculum relevant websites, too. I found the "Using VoiceThread for Peer Assessment" intriguing. Both of the Teach Paperless blog posts will come in hand for your classroom implementation journey=8-)I agree, the need to have students become skilled in providing feedback is a crucial skill for them to learn. It not only assists a classmate with improving an written piece, it also teaches the student-editor how to look critically at a piece of writing, in order to improve it. Skills they can then utilize when writing their own pieces. I'm looking forward to listening to your podcast - and learning about all the challenges, delights and bumps in the road of your project's implementation.
I really liked hearing about how you are comparing your social bookmarking tools, and also about your success from the teacher blogs. I'm glad you found more specific ideas, as I haven't visited so many of these so thanks for the idea. Using netvibes really sounds like it is working for you well. You are doing such a good job Jeff, not only finding resources but learning from the research process itself. You are honing out a bit of a path for yourself so whatever the problem is in the future you need to solve, you have at least something of a research/action plan in place !
Hi Jeff,
I had used Delicious in the past before ever using Diigo, and I agree that it is a very useful social bookmarking site. It is user-friendly and nice to look at. What a great idea to also look at sites you already subscribed to through Netvibes. I would have never thought of that. Great job!
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