Browse By Goal: Give Feedback
Help students articulate and share their reactions to and value judgments about particular phenomena, such as instruction received or information presented. Librarians interested in assessing their teaching methods have this goal in mind. “Give Feedback” falls within the “evaluation” and “responding to phenomena” categories in Bloom’s Cognitive and Affective Domains, respectively. When anonymous feedback is compiled and made available to students, it can be an example of “learning about oneself and others” within the “human dimension” category of Fink’s Taxonomy of Significant Learning, “Give Feedback” can also be inferred from standard 3 of the Information Literacy Competency Standards. See “Browse by Goal” for more information.
CHOOSE-YOUR-OWN-ADVENTURE MOVIE
A short, interactive movie created for research instruction, outreach, or orientation. To build your own, see HELPFUL TIPS, below.
Example: The full movie and accompanying credits are also available.
Type: Video, Classroom Response System
Learning Goals: Especially
recommended to help students interact with the learning material, give feedback, value or get excited about featured content, identify or differentiate
between information resources, strategize approaches to research (such as critical evaluation, etc.),
among other things.
Caveat: Use judiciously; this approach requires that students will be motivated to watch an interactive, nonlinear, moving presentation. It may also consume class time.
Estimated Production
Time:
2-3 months
Recommended Software: iMovie,
Windows Movie Maker, Sony Vegas, or Final Cut, combined with Flash and/or DVD technology. Note: Hardware also recommended (clickers); contact Daniel Jamous (jamous@fas.harvard.edu) at ATG to borrow for use in Lamont B-30, where TurningPoint is already installed.
Publication Options: click to view
Experts, Consultants, & Collaborators:
Michael Hemment, Paul
Worster, Ramona Islam, Peter Reuell (For suggestions or questions from
other colleagues, check for Comments at the
bottom of this box, or add your own.)
LIVE QUESTION TOOL
Live Question Tool is a web-based service that lets audience members at a presentation post questions for the speaker. As questions are added, other participants can submit comments and cast votes for the questions they hope to see answered first. To build your own, see HELPFUL TIPS, below. Also Try: http://www.tricider.
Example:
Type: Classroom Response System
Learning Goals: Especially recommended to help students anonymously ask questions during class (in hopes that they will receive answers that help them better understand the content), give feedback, and interact with the teacher and one another. Due to its novelty and interactivity, it also has special potential for helping students get excited about or value their learning, among other things. Caveat: Avoid usage when teaching material that requires focus and concentration or serious reflection.
Estimated Production Time: 10-15 min.
Recommended Software: No special software required. To create one, see the Live Question Tool Creation Area. See also: Piazza
Publication Options: N/A
Experts, Consultants, & Collaborators: TBA (For suggestions or questions from other colleagues, check for Comments at the bottom of this box, or add your own.)
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PERSONAL RESPONSE CLICKERS & LEARNING CATALYTICS
A useful tool for anonymously polling students and presenting their feedback to your questions during class. To build your own, see HELPFUL TIPS, below.
Example:
Type: Classroom Response System
Learning Goals: Especially recommended to help students analyze and critically evaluate information or differentiate between types of information, give feedback, and interact with content and the ideas of their peers. Used properly, it may help students to get excited about the class.
Estimated Production Time: 3-4 hours
Recommended Software: Learning Catalytics (now aquired by Pearson) or TurningPoint (free download, for polling with handheld clickers, which you may borrow from Lamont B-30 or from ATG), or TurningPoint AnyWhere (free download, for polling via the Internet). See manuals. Lamont B-30 is already equipped with TurningPoint software on both Instructor PCs.
Publication Options: N/A
Experts, Consultants, & Collaborators: Daniel Jamous, ATG and Ramona Islam, HCL.
SHARED REFWORKS LIBRARY
RefShare provides RefWorks users with a quick and easy way to share their research information, further enhancing collaborative research. Users can share their RefWorks references with both members of their own institution and globally with any researcher having Internet access. To build your own shared database, see HELPFUL TIPS, below.
Example:
See also: Plug & Play Virtual Library.
Type: Database
Learning Goals: Especially recommended to help students devise/create their own bibliographies, give feedback on selected resources in their own or others' bibliographies (through comments), interact with one another's bibliographies, and organize/manage references.
Estimated Production
Time:
Sharing takes 10 min. (Production time varies for building the RefWorks database behind RefShare.)
Recommended Software: No special software required (use RefWorks).
Publication Options: Can exist as a stand-along web page or integrated into HCL LibGuides or course iSites using an iFrame.
Experts, Consultants, & Collaborators:
TBA (For suggestions or questions from
other colleagues, check for Comments at the
bottom of this box, or add your own.)
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TodaysMeet
Pair up students and allow them to share their ideas with the full class (and document for future use) by typing those ideas into TodaysMeet.
VOICETHREAD
A collaborative, multimedia slide show that holds images, documents, and videos and allows students to navigate pages and leave comments. VoiceThreads can even be embedded to show and receive comments on other websites and exported to MP3 players or DVDs to play as archival movies. To build your own, see HELPFUL TIPS, below.
Example:
Type: Slide Show
Learning Goals: Especially recommended to help students analyze, critically evaluate, understand, give feedback about, and use/search featured information resources, such as primary documents, images, videos, presentations, etc. VoiceThread may also encourage students to value or get excited about subject matter because it offers an opportunity to interact with content and with other students through webcam video, microphone, telephone, text, or image and through file uploads of their own.
Estimated Production
Time:
2 weeks
Recommended Software: No special software required (Use VoiceThread)
Publication Options: click to view
Experts, Consultants, & Collaborators:
TBA (For suggestions or questions from
other colleagues, check for Comments at the
bottom of this box, or add your own.)
- Instructional Design Tips
- Technical Development Tips