Feedback+Sandpit

Individual student wikis which teachers have access to. Benefits: - process fully documented - prevents parents from doing students' work for them - teacher can be active participant, provide feedback

Comment tool and Track changes in Word - Students like this better than hand-written annotations - Uploading to Moodle, hard to return teacher commented / annotated work documents

Recorded conferences - Research shows that students don't take everything in, often focus on the negative - Record student conferences at time of need rather than write evaluations

Technology helps students reflect on their own performance, i.e. feedback loop - Use flip camera to record performance - Use web cams to record homework, then upload it (e.g. as Moodle assignment). Quality of student homework improves because students rehearse, record, review, reflect, re-record, etc.

Blogs (see blogs.isb.ac.th) - Host WordPress blogs on school server - Students are admins - Buy domain name as student graduation gift from school to all students - Plugin to "report comment", self manages commenting. - When blogs become teacher directed, blog withers - RSS Feeds into RSS aggregator (e.g. NetVibes) to create class portfolios, for example: Jeff Utecht's http://www.netvibes.com/isbg5 - Use blog posts as food for class discussion (value student ideas / opinions / effort).

Moodle - dialogue plug-in - Nanogong plug-in embeds java audio recorder / player

Edmodo - Create back channel during classroom presentation -