A New Way to Grade Papers with Camtasia Studio
Posted on Friday December 9, 2005 by Betsy Weber
Red ink - that's what I remember scribbled all over papers in my English classes. And, sure that feedback was useful in its cryptic way.
I found this Camtasia Studio video recently. A journalism instructor used Camtasia Studio to mark-up his student's papers and give his feedback on their assignments. Click here to see his video.
For me, this type of feedback would have been much more useful. Visual and audio communication is a very effective way to share feedback with others - with this type of feedback there is no guessing for the student about what the instructor is trying to convey to them. It can also be faster to make a video with your comments narrated rather than write them all out.
Is anyone else using Camtasia Studio this way? How's it working for you and what is the response from your students or employees? Have you thrown your red pen away?
Comments (5)
Interested to see the video. html file missing
Posted by Len Charnoff | December 10, 2005 9:37 AM
Posted on December 10, 2005 09:37
I have been responding to students in a similar way, but my method has been even less sophisticated: I simply open the file in a Word document and use the cursor to highlight relevant passages while I talk through it. I am presenting the results of a mini study about this type of response practice at the CCCCs conference in Chicago in March 2006. In general, my students seem to like this kind of feedback, and it's certainly faster (and perhaps more thorough) than pen-and-paper comments--once you have a reliable way to get the video to the students. At my school (Drexel), our tech folks are excellent, so I have a streamlined way to get these videos to students--and there is even a podcast option for audio only.
Posted by Scott Warnock | December 26, 2005 3:39 PM
Posted on December 26, 2005 15:39
Hi Scott,
That is wonderful! Thanks for sharing how you do this!
Would you be willing to share with us some of the videos?
I'd love to chat with you too...would you mind emailing me? visuallounge@techsmith.com
Betsy Weber
Posted by Betsy Weber | December 27, 2005 11:26 PM
Posted on December 27, 2005 23:26
Sorry the delay in responding, Betsy.
I'd be happy to share some of the videos with you or anyone else who is interested.
Feel free to contact me at sjwarnock@drexel.edu.
Scott
Posted by Scott Warnock | January 27, 2006 11:11 AM
Posted on January 27, 2006 11:11
amazing stuff! Very cool!
this is going to really change things for teachers, I think. Internationally.
Vocabulary Hip-Hop
Posted by Blake | January 28, 2006 7:48 PM
Posted on January 28, 2006 19:48