Video Feedback on Student Work
Recently, for the first time, I used video and audio technology to provide feedback on student papers in my first-year legal writing class. From my perspective, it was a terrific success. Giving live, oral feedback over video of each student’s paper allowed me to explain my questions, comments, and corrections more naturally and precisely, and also more quickly. I think that most students found the oral feedback useful as well.
The technology I used is TechSmith’s Jing. There may well be other free software products that offer something similar, but Jing is the one that was brought to my attention (by a student, actually–thanks, Priya Barnes). After viewing another educator’s blog post and video demonstrating his use of the product to give feedback, I thought I’d try it.
Here is how the video/audio method of commenting works: