1. A - Collaboration
B - Citation management
C - Assessment with Comment banks Screen capturing / screencasting
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A - Collaboration
Problems
• 1 - how to promote more frequent writing, revision and review by students
• 2 - how to monitor students in the writing process
• 3 - how to invite higher rates of student
Looking for a way to
• more effeciently / effectively model writing process
• invite students to actively participate in realizing a model of the writing process
• improve accountabiliy of students in following / realizing all steps of the writing process
(brainstorming, idea, outline, first draft, revision, final draft)
• provide student feedback at a time convenient to you
• promote more frequent peer review / sharing / modelling
Solution - collaborative writing - real time, online
Tools?
Google docs
ACTIVITY
• explore these examples
• http://j.mp/emailwriting
• observe - what is happening here?
• http://j.mp/summarywriting
• observe - what is happening here?
Etherpads
ACTIVITY
• explore these examples
• http://buckinsand.titanpad.com/143
• observe - what is this? why?
• http://buckinsand.titanpad.com/6
• observe - what is this? why?
Discuss possible applications of these tools for writing
• discuss this example
• model writing process with an incomplete outline
• headings
• question
• brainstorm
• research / collect information
• list in point form
• sort in point form
• create an outline
• create a first draft

2. • create a final draft
ACTIVITY
• go to this etherpad - http://buckinsand.titanpad.com/157
• work collaboratively on the following question
• how could you realize collaborative writing with your students - your ideas
• brainstorm
• possible topics for students to work on together
• basic / beginner students
• intermediate students
• advanced students
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B - Citation management
Problems
• 1 - students fail to fully understand the importance of proper citation work as a means to avoid
being accused of plagiarism
• 2 - students have difficulty in accurately formatting and completing entry of all required
information on resources that they choose to cite
• 3 - it is time consuming for both student and teacher
• for the student
• to learn, understand the importance of, and to accurately realize
• for the teacher
• to teach, support and ensure correct format when under time pressures
Solution - use of citation management tools
• http://www.slideshare.net/buckinsand/citation-management-today-5959080
• benefits?
• citation fields are fully and clearly give to students to ensure full completion
• final formatting is done by the tool
• can be more easily supported by teacher
Demonstration of basics with Zotero
• for demonstration purposes - identify a topic to research - (citation management?)
• create a collection
• create entries manually
• create entries automatically (i.e. Amazon, online databases)
• set up the formatting of references automatically (i.e. MLA, APA)
• insert into a Word document
discuss more advanced options
• plugin into MS Word
• for intext citation work
• facilitates sharing citations with students (import / export function)
• collaborative research work
ideas for introduction to students

3. • graduated introduction to "a" citation management tool
• Step 1 - initially invite students to
• import citations that you have authored
• use these citations in their research
• insert these citations in their list of references
then..
• Step 2 - invite students to "add" to this pre-authored list with a web based resource (introduce
other resource types later on)
then..
• Step 3 - invite students to "create" their own
known issues
• continuity
• teacher introduces it in one course.. another teacher uses still another program in another
course; student retention / support suffers ... promotes abandonment
• need for Department wide agreement on format (APA, MLA), tool (Zotero,
Mendeley), introduction (which course, to what degree?), support resources
(screencasts, Library)
• important to understand the limitations of each tool
• (i.e. Zotero requires users to use Firefox as their browser)
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C - Screen capturing / screencasting
Problems
• 1 - students have difficulty learning how to perform basic functions / sequences on the computer
• 2 - students have difficulty remembering how to perform basic functions / sequences on the
computer
• 3 - teachers have scarce time in class to teach students new or basic computer based functions and
thus rule out using internet based tools that could be useful
Solution - produce videos that show how to realize setup, use of a computer based function
• http://delicious.com/buck_in_sand/screencasting
• the attraction?
• free
• easy to produce (for students as well as teachers)
• easy to share (via email, blog, website, Edmodo, Twitter, Facebook)
• reusable
• available to students 24/7 - when needed
• multimodal - audio / video
• thus opening up new possibilities
• student authored "help" videos
• invites script writing
• motivates by being an authentic & relevent activity
• my favourite tool?
• Screenr
• http://www.screenr.com/user/buckinsand/rss

4. ACTIVITY
• explore these examples
• http://screenr.com/tdcs
• observe - what is this? how is it useful?
• http://screenr.com/Ifls
• observe - what is this? how is it useful?
• http://screenr.com/Njqs
• observe - what is this? how is it useful?
ACTIVITY
• realize your own Screencast with Screenr
• http://www.screenr.com/
• post your screencast link here so that it can be shared with others
known issues
• dependency on the Cloud
• if network / internet access is poor or unavailable .. these resources are typically not
available
• work around? download them
• free ... for now!!!!
• may not always be free
• limitations on time
• 5 minutes