sweet & simple formative e-assessment

Powerpoint is usually condemned as the archetypal counter-example to formative e-assessment. PowerPoint doesn’t have any mechanism for collecting feedback from the audience, once you your presentation is rolling there’s little you can do to change its course.

PollEverywhere changes that. Their plugin allows you to conduct polls, collect responses by twitter or other tools, and display them as text or charts. Now all you need is a few action buttons, and you have a contingency point in powerpoint: a junction where you change your presentation path based on audience feedback.

As always, the specific technology is an illustration. You may know of other tools that do the same (and please add them in the comments). What you should take from this is the design pattern.

(HT Jane via @tryberg)

Outputs from the Dissemination Event

On April 28th the formative e-assessment project had a very successful dissemination event at the London Knowledge Lab. The room was packed, and another 15 people or so participated remotely via Elluminate. Norbert Pachler, Caroline Daly and Yishay Mor presented an overview of the project and Dylan Wiliam gave a theoretical overview. Next, five of our participants – Mary Webb, Denise Whitelock, Linda McGuigan, Aliy Fowler and Stylianos Hatzipanagos – presented their case stories, design patterns and scenarios. Diana Laurillard concluded the day, using the Conversational Framework to bring all the ideas together.

All presentations and associated materials are available from the event page.

The project report (version 2) is available for download from:

http://telearn.noe-kaleidoscope.org/open-archive/browse?resource=1875 (PDF)

Mary Webb, Denise Whitelock, Linda McGuigan, Aliy Fowler and Stylianos Hatzipanagos  –