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OneNewThing: Easy Peer Assignment Review with PeerMark 

Mendi Benigni

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Benefits of Peer Review

Peer review provides benefits to both the reviewer and the reviewee.  In a study but Lundstrom and Baker, where some students only gave feedback and others only received feedback, it “indicated that the givers, who focused solely on reviewing peers’ writing, made more significant gains in their own writing over the course of the semester than did the receivers, who focused solely on how to use peer feedback.”  In the Nicol, Thomson and Breslin study,  “(t)he findings show that producing feedback reviews engages students in multiple acts of evaluative judgement, both about the work of peers, and, through a reflective process, about their own work; that it involves them in both invoking and applying criteria to explain those judgements; and that it shifts control of feedback processes into students’ hands, a shift that can reduce their need for external feedback. The theoretical and practical implications of these findings are discussed.”

Peer review or feedback allows your students to:

  • Learn from one another
  • Engage with the writing, assignment, or presentation
  • Clarify their own ideas
  • See other people’s perspectives
  • Gives them more confidence

How Can We Do Peer Review More Easily?

PeerMark

PeerMark™ is a peer review assignment tool. Instructors can create and manage PeerMark assignments that allow students to read, review, and evaluate one or many papers submitted by their classmates. With the advanced options in PeerMark instructors can choose whether the reviews are anonymous or attributed. (from the PeerMark website)

Process Diagram

The basic stages of the peer review process:

  • Instructor creates a Turnitin paper assignment.
  • Instructor creates a PeerMark assignment and sets the number of papers students will be required to review, and creates free response and scale questions for students to respond to while reviewing papers.
  • Student papers are submitted to the Turnitin assignment.
  • On the PeerMark assignment start date, students begin writing peer reviews.
  • For each assigned paper students write reviews by responding to the free response and scale questions.
  • Students receive reviews as other students complete them.
  • Once the PeerMark assignment due date passes no more reviews can be written, completed, or edited by the writer

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Assessment, Collaboration, Mobile

Digital scavenger hunts for building class community

Mendi Benigni

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Scavenger hunts are a great way to get your students working together for a common goal.  This is a wonderful way for them to bond as a class or to gel as a group project team.   These types of hunts can be used for assessment as well but I want to focus mainly on team and community building.

For interaction, successful group work, and/or great discussion to occur in your class there needs to be trust.  Students need to trust the instructor but more importantly, they need to trust their classmates.  This trust is what allows the students to speak their minds, voice their opinions, or contradict an instructor or a classmate.  Without this all you get is superficiality.

While building trust within a classroom is another topic in and of itself, the first step to establishing this type of environment is to get the students familiar with one another and to have them experience working as a team.  A scavenger hunt is a fun way to do this.

Check out Goose Chase scavenger hunt creator.  First, a special shout out to Melissa Negreiros from Philip Simmons Elementary who introduced me to this application.  It’s a free (mostly) digital scavenger hunt application and here are the details:

  • Free
    • Regular account allows for 3 groups in a hunt and one hunt at a time.
    • Educator account allows for 5 groups in a hunt and one hunt at a time.
    • Educator paid is <$50/yr.
  • Online
  • Built-in list of possible activities from which to choose
  • Can create your own activities customized to your students, organization, or content
  • Can set a duration for the hunt
  • Can easily invite students with a class code, no accounts required
  • Can password protect it

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Uses:

  • Group community building
  • Class community building
  • Icebreakers
  • Content assessment
  • Field trip engagement
  • Brain break
  • Learn about campus resources

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#onenewthing Padlet
Collaboration, discussion, instructional technology, iPad, Mobile, Portfolio, Presentation, Research

#OneNewThing – Padlet

Mendi Benigni

padlet screenshot“Padlet is a virtual wall that allows people to express their thoughts on a common topic easily. It works like an online sheet of paper where people can put any content (e.g. images, videos, documents, text) anywhere on the page, together with anyone, from any device.” (Mrs. Treichler)

Platforms:  Web, iOS, Android, also has plugins for Chrome and WordPress

 

How It Works

 

Uses for Faculty & Students
 

  • Create a blank board and share it (either with specific people via their Padlet account, or via a general link.
  • Double-click on the board to add a new “sticky” note.
  • You can add:
    • Text
    • Audio
    • Video
    • Images
    • Files
  • Drag the notes around to organize and sort them.

Works on a computer or almost any mobile device.
  • Discussion and collaboration
  • Constructing a classroom code of conduct or an assessment rubric with your students
  • Backchannel where students can write questions during or before class
  • Exit ticket
  • Brainstorming
  • Planning
  • Student-to-Student image sharing
  • Writing prompts and collaborative writing
  • Student introductions
  • KWL Charts
  • Curation
  • Flow maps
  • Opinion forums
  • Inspiration wall
  • Portfolios
  • Website bookmarking tool
  • More…
  • Even more…

Get your padlet account today

 

Zoom conferencing
Classrooms, Collaboration, Conferencing, Presentation

#OneNewThing – Zoom Conferencing

Mendi Benigni

One New Thing from TLT
Zoom is an online conferencing tool, similar to WebEx or Go To Meeting, and allows you to host online, collaborative sessions.  The free version is full featured for up to 45 minutes of conferencing.

Video conferencing from your computer or mobile device

With the FREE version of Zoom users can:

  • hold unlimited 1 on 1 sessions
  • hold an unlimited number of sessions
  • have up to 50 participants per session
  • hold sessions only up to 40 minutes long (pro allows more)
  • host web or video conferences (desktop and mobile)
  • create breakout rooms for small group collaboration
  • share your, or participants, computer screens
  • annotate on shared screens
  • collaborate on a shared online whiteboard
  • record the session to share later
  • use user management with muting and hand raising
  • use either the computer microphone or telephone for audio

Need more?

  • 100 participants for $60/mo, 200 participants for $105/mo
  • Unlimited meeting time for $15/mo

Uses for Faculty & Students

There are many uses for such a tool in education, both online and face-to-face.

  • Hold online office hours: can use the screen sharing or the collaborative whiteboard to work together during the meeting.
  • Conduct interviews:  instead of Skype consider using Zoom.  This eliminates the sharing of Skype usernames and allows for screen sharing for easier discussion of materials.
  • Online paper or project review sessions: using the collaborative tools and screensharing you can work with students to review papers or projects together.
  • Online training and tutorials: use the screenshare to teach your students synchronously.
  • Study groups: students can use Zoom to conduct online study sessions when they can’t get together to study.
  • Group work: students can use Zoom to collaborate on group work.  They can bring up their Google doc or presentation and use the video chat to discuss the project while collaborating on the documents.

 

Get your Free Account now at zoom.us

OneNewThing - Adobe Spark
instructional technology, TLT, Video

#OneNewThing – Adobe Spark

Mendi Benigni

This summer I attended a teaching symposium where the mantra was “One New Thing,” or the act of finding one thing that you think will meet a need and implementing it instead of feeling pressure to implement many things.  This new series will focus on helping you potentially find your #OneNewThing.

One New Thing from TLT
Adobe Spark is an online graphics and video application.  Use the Social Graphics app to create graphics with text to post to social media or to liven up blog posts or presentations.  Use Web Stories to create interactive pages for storytelling or newsletters.  Animated Videos allows the user to create animated slideshows and presentations with images, text, and recorded audio.

How It Works

Spark Post – create stunning graphics 

  • Get started quickly using a theme or start with a blank slate.
  • Add your own images or use the built in image library.
  • Search the text library to find just the right font and layout to meet your needs.

Uses for Faculty & Students

Spark Post
Create graphics to

  • illustrate your concept in a presentation.
  • add to blog posts or social media.
  • spice up a newsletter.
Spark Page – create beautiful web stories

  • Create a beautiful, eye-catching story using photos and text.
  • Choose from preset themes or start from a blank slate.
  • Add motion to your photos as the user views your page.
  • Your page resizes for any size screen, including mobile.

Spark Page

Create

  • Webpages
  • Newsletters
  • Class presentations
  • Storytelling
Spark Video – create compelling animated videos

  • Start with a beautiful template or a blank slate.
  • Add images, text and icons to tell your story.
  • Finish with music and a voiceover.

Spark Video

Create

  • Video tutorials
  • Video presentations
  • Video newsletters
  • Music videos
  • Documentaries
  • Video blogs
  • Document events

Get your free account now at adobe spark

 

If you use Adobe Spark tweet about it using #OneNewThing and add TLT at @tltcofc!  We can’t wait to hear from you.