How to add your own voice into student feedback
- 1. How to add your own voice into student feedback Michelle Cavaleri Manager, English Language Proficiency/Team Leader, Student Learning Support, Navitas Professional Institute
- 2. Outline ■ Screen-capture programs ■ Preparing to record ■ Recording your video ■ Saving, uploading and sharing your video ■ Viewing your video library ■ Q&A
- 3. Screen-capture programs ■ There are a number of screen-capture programs including Jing, Snagit, Screencast-o-matic, Camtasia and Captivate ■ We prefer Jing as it is free, very simple and user friendly, and comes with comes with a screencast.com account for storing videos online ■ However, it does have a 5 minute recording limit and no editing capabilities (both of which have advantages) ■ Download Jing here: https://www.techsmith.com/jing.html
- 4. Preparing to record ■ Read and comment on the student’s paper as normal ■ Think about which aspects you would like to discuss in the video and keep the written comments about those aspects brief (i.e. think of them more as cues for your recording). ■ You may want to make some brief notes to remind you about what you’d like to cover in the video. ■ Open the student’s paper and anything else you want to record (e.g. a unit outline, marking rubric, website).
- 5. Possible structure ■ Greet the student ■ Highlight and discuss areas of strength ■ Highlight and discuss areas of improvement ■ Talk through marking rubric and student’s grade ■ Reinforce two main pieces of advice to feed-forward to future assessments ■ Close
- 6. Recording your video 1. Make the frame(s) you want to record a bit smaller than full screen 2. Look for the Jing ‘sun’ and click ‘Capture’ (the left option)
- 7. Recording your video 3. Click and drag around the area of the screen you want to record 4. A toolbar will pop up with four buttons. Click “Capture video” (the second button)
- 8. Recording your video 5. Start speaking and record your video! Any actions inside the recoding box will be captured 6. Keep an eye on the timer – you only have 5 minutes. There are also buttons to finish, pause or restart the video
- 9. Finishing and saving your video 7. After clicking ‘finish’, the recording will pop up and you can play it if you want (it’s a good idea to check the sound) 8. Rename the file – it’s a good idea to include the student’s name
- 10. Uploading your video to screencast.com 9. A bar will pop up showing the progress of the upload to Screencast.com
- 11. Uploading your video to screencast.com 10. A notification will appear when the upload is complete. The link to the video will be saved in your clipboard, so you can paste it in an email/ document. Alternatively you can click ‘View on Screencast.com’
- 12. Recording your video 11. This shows the video opened in screencast.com (simulating what the student will see when they click on the link to the video). You can copy and paste this link to send to the student.
- 13. Viewing your video library in screencast.com Order the list of videos by name or date See how many times a video had been viewed
- 14. Tips ■ Try not to scroll back and forward too much or too quickly. ■ Make use if the visual element – it’s easy to just talk but the visual element makes it very powerful. Highlight sentences/sections, circle the mouse, underline sections etc. ■ Remember that you can show things other than the assignment, such as unit outlines, the online class space, the marking rubric the SLS website etc.
- 15. Other ways to provide video feedback ■ Take notes while working through a student’s work. Create a video that talks through the notes and the problems/observations on a point-by-point basis ■ Create a video that provides general feedback to the whole class. Discuss overall strengths, areas for improvement, and advice for the next assignment. ■ Provide a model answer to a question and comment on it. Students could use it to reflect on their own work.
- 16. Thanks! Any questions? Please don’t hesitate to call or email me if you have any further questions or if you run into any difficulties – I’d be happy to help! E: michelle.cavaleri@navitas.com P: (02) 8236 8051