The Digital Feedback Frontier

Positive - Respectful – Responsible

As a I guess since I’ve told you I’ve come from afar…I had a long and difficult road to 21st century feedback…

“Hey! Nice work man. I like it.”

“I’m done!”

Student response after 3 of 333 papers …

Right???

Building our community…one draft at a time.

Personal reflection on their writing and the writing process

They needed to see and hear me as a writer…modeling, modeling, modeling

Clear “norms” - PR2

Praise means the poem is finished and the poet would like positive feedback from readers about what they liked in the poem. This is an invitation to celebrate the finished piece.Praise means the poem is finished and the poet would like positive feedback from readers about what they liked in the poem. This is an invitation to celebrate the finished piece.Praise means the poem is finished and the poet would like positive feedback from readers about what they liked in the poem. This is an invitation to celebrate the finished piece.

Praise means the poem is finished and the poet would like positive feedback from readers about what they liked in the poem. This is an invitation to celebrate the finished piece.

“I am proud of my effort and look forward to your positive feedback. This is an invitation to celebrate this finished piece.”

“I’m almost finished. Please help me iron out any wrinkles that you notice. This is an invitation to comment on any aspect of my writing piece.”

“I have this/these specific questions/concerns/doubts and would like your feedback on this/these things only for now. This is an invitation to respond to my questions/thoughts.”

Peer feedback to the author’s request Teacher feedback to author’s request

+ possiblePOSITIVE IMPACT

visible to all

so has the power to be teaching more

than one

-possible NEGATIVE IMPACT

visible to all

case by case evaluation needed

Individual personal document feedback

Literacy Circles - responses and feedback to prompts /roles

Discussion Forum

+ possiblePOSITIVE IMPACT

• Sticky notes can be visible to all • Or private• Highlight/Colors• Footnotes

-possible NEGATIVE IMPACT

• works only when students type right onto wiki page

Everyone can hear comments…

Voice thread

The students loved Voice Thread’s capacity for allowing them to read, illustrate and

graphically represent their writing.

It has incredible potential for students /parents/teachers to respond.

NEGATIVE

•They could NOT post their own work for feedback without a personal email

+ possiblePOSITIVE IMPACT

•visible to all •Build upon each others ideas

Cover it Live

Etherpad – Titanpad

Audacity - ex.2

NEXT YEAR…googledocs

We used technology to help us think about our writing…about our personal writing goals

We posted our work with purposeful comments as to where we were in the writing process, what we felt we were doing well at, and what we wanted our community to focus their comments on to help make us better writers.

Bradley

Bella

Nichole

1:32am

PR2 COMMUNITY climate