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  • Article
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    Using Screencasting To Give Feedback for Academic Writing
    (Routledge, 2020-11-05) Bush, Jerome
    This article reports on student reactions to a relatively new method of giving feedback using a technique called ‘screencasting’. Screencasting is a technique where the computer screen is captured in a video while an audio recording is being made. In this way, students can receive oral feedback in conjunction with written corrective feedback. Forty-four freshman students from an advanced writing class in the ELT department of a small private university in Istanbul participated in the study. During the semester, three high stakes essay assignments were given. For the first essay only written corrective feedback was given, but for the subsequent two essays students received a combination of written and oral feedback through screencasting. Screencasting was originally used because it was purported to be more efficient than written corrective feedback. While it wasn’t found to be more efficient for the teacher, it was enthusiastically embraced by the students. To gauge the students’ perceptions, a survey was given at the same time as the final exam. The survey included a section for demographics, four open-ended questions, and 28 Likert scale-type questions. The Likert-type questions represented nine categories of inquiry including both practical and affective factors. The results indicated overwhelmingly that the students perceive screencast feedback as more pleasant and more effective than written corrective feedback alone. The technique is appropriate to the twenty-first century classroom and the learning styles of modern students. It is recommended that this technique be adopted in academic writing classes.
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    Storybird: an Inspiring Reading and Writing Tool
    (2017) Tekiner Tolu, Aylin
    In this workshop, the presenter will introduce an online writing/reading tool, Storybird, which is a totally free online tool, used by more than 5 millions of students and 400.000 K-12 schools in all around the world. It is user-friendly, boosts students' motivation and creativity to write with its rich artwork collection library. It can be used at any grade level from kindergarten to higher education. Storybird is an interactive tool where students, teachers and parents can be all involved in learning and sharing process with the help of comment, email, and share features. In addition, students can work collaboratively in writing. By the end of this workshop, the participants will be able to set-up a classroom account, create assignments, add items for reading to class library, check students' writings, grade and comment on them. The participants are expected to bring their laptop or tablets (with wifi connection).