Karen LaBonte tweeted a link to Cathy Davidson’s post How to Crowdsource Grading. It’s an interesting approach, and something I think could work well in college setting. My grad school program allows students to resubmit work based on feedback, and I have definitely taken advantage of this perk several times. The trouble I have with…
I had a great time and went to so many great sessions at this year’s GCTE Conference at Callaway Gardens. This first session I attended explored the use of Plasq’s Comic Life software in school projects (Kristen Kallaher, Stone Mountain High School). I have Comic Life on my Mac, and I use it to make…
Georgia did away with the D in its public schools a long time ago. The reason I know this is that when I moved to Georgia as a junior in high school, which was almost exactly twenty years ago, I had a D in biology on my transcript, and my counselor explained that because it…
Via this week’s NCTE Inbox, I read an article about an experiment in assessment that English teacher John O’Connor tried. After spending 15 hours carefully crafting comments on a class set of papers, there’s nothing more depressing than to see those papers parachute, unread, into the recycling bin at the end of class. This past…
