Provide Thorough and Personalized Feedback to Students
Here’s the challenge: You’ve got 60 papers. They’re from a really important assignment students have been working on, and you’d love to provide feedback at length. The trouble is that writing in the margins is a pain and very time consuming. Oh, if only you had the time for one-on-one conferences with students to go over important work together.
Well, here’s the next best thing: You can use Jing to record the student work as you narrate.
If student work is printed on hard copy, you could use a webcam in conjunction with Jing Pro and record the paper.
To use Jing as a means to provide feedback:
- Close any personal windows, like your email… just in case.
- Open the student work and resize the window to be less than full screen. Even though Jing can capture the full screen, oftentimes this provides a less-than-ideal experience for the viewer. It’s usually better that you scroll as you give your feedback, than risk having the viewer needing to scroll to keep up with you.
- Initiate the capture and select the region containing the document. Click the Video button. Make sure that you’re not muted.
- Narrate and gesture with the mouse as you provide feedback. (Jing has a 5-minute video recording limit) Depending on the software, for example Microsoft Word, you may be able to use some kind of drawing or highlighting to draw more attention to the part of the work you’re talking about. Likewise if you are fortunate to have a tablet PC you can draw on the screen freehand.
- When done, stop the recording. Before you send or save it, you should name the file. You know that some percentage of your students will say, “I lost the URL,” so let’s establish a file-naming plan. Maybe a prefix indicating the assignment, followed by first initial, last name. For example, “Eco-JSmith”. You’ll be glad you did this because all the videos will be easy to find in your Jing History should you need them later.
- Ok, so you’ve recorded some feedback, and now you want to get it to the student… maybe even the parent. You could try managing a bunch of files, but probably the easiest and most user-friendly way to get this feedback to others is by uploading the content to Screencast.com. You receive a short link to the video, and don’t worry—the Jing folder on Screencast.com is private.
You want to be very deliberate and make sure the right links are being sent to the right students. If you’re ever in doubt, remember you can go into your History, pull up the correct video and then re-obtain the link.
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