Asynchronous Student Conferencing
Research shows that few things are as impactful as formative feedback directly from a teacher to a student. Research also shows that many young learners tend to ignore written feedback on a static document. The challenge is that it is nearly impossible to make time for face to face conferencing when there is so much else to manage during the school day!
With Explain Everything you can narrate the feedback you give to students in a screencast of your review of their work, and then share that screencast with them through Showbie. The first step in the process starts in Showbie where you can open any type of student file that needs feedback. Then, with a simple export that takes only seconds, you open that same file in Explain Everything. There, you can record a screencast of your feedback as you are assessing the work in real time. It is this combination of verbal and written feedback – even asynchronous – that increases the chance your constructive critique will be digested by the student. Once the recording is finished, you simply bring the screencast back into Showbie and share it with the student. In all, the process only takes an extra thirty seconds, but those extra thirty seconds all but guarantee that the student will pay attention to the feedback you work so hard to provide.
See how Joe uses Explain Everything in Showbie in the video below.
