Dr. Leah Wickersham, Educational Leadership
Assessing Students Online
With the increase of students in online classes and the loss of face-to-face contact, it’s becoming increasingly difficult to assess students, especially in a writing intensive course such as research methods. Enter Jing and YouTube! The solution to my dilemma!
I use Jing, a free software program created by TechSmith to record audio and video while grading research papers. It’s a great way to provide not only summative feedback, but formative feedback as well. Jing enables me to capture a student’s paper on my computer while I’m reading it and go through the paper making comments, I can easily show them where there are trouble spots and areas that they need to work on. This way of assessing my students frees up a lot of my time normally spent typing comments or using track changes. It allows me to speak to them through technology as opposed to typing the information.
After I’ve recorded the video, I upload it to YouTube and send them the link! Worried about protecting their privacy? YouTube allows me to determine which videos to make private so that only the individual with the link has access to the video.
One caveat to what I said earlier about Jing being free. It is free, but in order to be able to upload to YouTube, you pay $14.95/month and also have the ability to use your webcam. If you use the free version of Jing, you can upload and share your video using screencast.
For a short instructional video, ideas for using Jing, and the difference between Jing and Jing Pro, please watch the video created by Techsmith http://video.techsmith.com/jing/2.1/overview/default.asp
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