Emergency Toolkit: Can you hear me now? Audio Feedback. Formative and Summative Assessment Ideas

Emergency Toolkit: Audio Feedback. Formative and Summative Assessment Ideas -------------------- In this issue... 1. Register for a Fall Online Course 2. Creating Audio Feedback 3. Tech Tip: Using Vocaroo to Make Voice Recordings Registration is Open for Fall Online Courses Meet your professional development goals for continuing education, license renewal or advanced certification. List of Online Courses with Openings Register Online  Edutopia: Formative Assessment in Distance Learning by Andrew Miller Schools are closed but schooling goes on, and it remains crucial that teachers find ways to see what students are learning. Creating Effective Audio Feedback Explore the benefits of incorporating audio feedback to build stronger instructor-learner connections. Discover free audio tools that quickly record comments-- often in less time than it takes to write them. ‘Speaking to Students’ with Audio Feedback Debbie Morrison explains how to use a voice recorder app and Evernote to provide meaningful and useful feedback.   Using Asynchronous Audio Feedback to Enhance Teaching Presence and Students’ Sense of Community(PDF) Philip Ice and others share results of a study which found that students who received audio feedback “overwhelmingly” preferred audio over written feedback, and felt it increased perceptions of instructor caring as well as the sense of involvement in the course.   Audio- the Personal Touch in Online Courses Alastair Creelman reports on a study by Cavanaugh and Song which found that students in a composition course were more positive about receiving audio versus written feedback. Instructors tended to provide more global commentary via audio and more local commentary via written feedback.   Teacher’s Visual Guide on Giving Audio Feedback to Students on Google Drive Med Kharbach provides the steps to add audio comments to any Google document.   Kaizena Adds Support for Giving Audio Feedback on Google Presentations Richard Byrne describes how the Kaizena tool embedded in Google Drive allows instructors to add audio comments to Google presentations.   Tech Tip: Using Vocaroo to Make Voice Recordings  (video 2:41 minutes) YouTube This shows how to use the free Web-based recording tool Vocaroo to create audio recordings and export hyperlinked files, QR codes, MP3, or WAV files.     List of Online Courses Register Online! Request Information Online  School of Education Online Professional Development University of Wisconsin - Stout Phone: (530) 318-1145 University of Wisconsin-Stout | College of Education, Health and Human Sciences 712 South Broadway Street, Menomonie, WI 54751 | Phone: 715-232-2253