Category Archives: assessment

Diigo “Jury” Needed on 74-Comment Assessment Post Debate

April 28, 2008 – 10:41 pm

First, a mini-photo essay on my own point of view about privileging writing over speaking when grading in the collaborative, networking, multimedia century:

Three weeks after the Diigo stampede, I’ve been concerned that the new trend of putting Diigo annotations on posts instead of leaving comments in the thread was a negative thing. Only Diigo […]

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Muhammad Ali: A D- Student? Or an F- School?

April 27, 2008 – 2:38 am

[Update 2: Goodness! A 75-comment debate exploded in less than a day.  Best sustained conversation among all commenters (not just responding to the post) that I’ve ever seen on this blog.  A true “cocktail party” about an important subject: Assessing with a bias toward writing, versus assessing to reward non-written communication skills equally in grades.]  […]

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Three Uses of Diigo in the History and Language Arts Classroom

March 31, 2008 – 9:13 pm

I’ve been a Diigo user for two years come July. Seems like everybody and their grannies have adopted it in a Twitter-induced stampede over the last two days (I think Will had something to do with it).
As I said on Twitter, the flood of emails requesting “friendship” on Diigo sort of shocked me (I […]

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Basketball without Borders Slam Dunk: Networked Learning Class Update and Video

March 25, 2008 – 2:16 pm

It’s been about six weeks since my last update on the ten-week-old Networked Learning class I created with the help of so many of you in the initial Open Thread post and Twitter. Students are still grading themselves and justifying it - and showing the same fondness for grade inflation as so many […]

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Using Flock and Split Screen to Give Feedback

March 23, 2008 – 5:40 pm

Just a quickie to share a new discovery: I just switched to Flock from Firefox - which I loved, but has been way too buggy lately - and I find it feels just like Firefox, but faster and more stable. Better still, I found a new addon called Split Browser (see a monster list […]

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