Here is another screencast from the Liberal Studies Pilot of Sakai OAE, on using ATLAS to teach portfolio-based writing courses. In in, Master Teacher of Writing Chris Packard illustrates a very simple system he's been able to set up in ATLAS for facilitating peer review and commenting using native OAE tools.
I agree this is a step up from Blackboard. But isn't it a large step behind Google Docs, which gives you real-time collaborative editing and threaded inline commenting? I'm using GD to teach writing in the context of a geography course this term, and find it really powerful; a more organic way to deal with the writing-review-revision cycle.
ReplyDeleteI say this not as a critique of Atlas/OAE, so much as a suggestion for possible future improvements.
Good point, Bruce. Enabling instructors to use what they like for teaching is one of the key goals behind Sakai OAE. If you like to use Google docs, you can pull them into your Sakai OAE course pages using the Remote Content widget and edit them there using the Google tools that you also like. That being said, the capacity to annotate documents in OAE is part of the Year 2 development roadmap for OAE, so instructors will have that choice for providing structured and unstructured feedback as well.
ReplyDelete"... so instructors will have that choice for providing structured and unstructured feedback as well." I've mentioned elsewhere that I'm hoping annotation and a broader assessment approach in OAE can also break down the rigid distinctions between structured and unstructured, student/peer and faculty feedback. For example, it'd be valuable to be able to tag annotations (which is a kind of structured feedback), in addition to allowing free-form comments.
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