Tuesday, November 24, 2009

Re: Digital essay marking/annotating tools

Hello Adrian,

Your website is interesting but I don't quite understand how it works. Do
people have to be registered with the website?

I don't have any information on other software. Would love to hear what
responses you receive. I simply use the reviewing panes from word and the
insert commas from Google documents and have to put my own
suggestions/corrections/grammatical terms in them. I've also tried reducing
the margins on a student's paper and putting my comments, opposite the
requisite wording, in a text box on the right hand margin.

Just a little bit removed from the old red/green pen/pencil comments , I'm
afraid.

Ellen

On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 , Adrian Hoad-Reddick <hoad@hoadworks.com> wrote:

> Dear Colleagues,
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> I am interested to know what text markup tools teachers find helpful in
> digitally marking essays and other written assignments. Are there good
> tools
> out there to facilitate English teacher marking?
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> I have developed a rudimentary Word template that allows teachers to select
> text and easily insert comments based on 30 common syntax/grammar errors
> and
> that subsequently allows the student to click on any comment and be
> directed
> to web pages that comment on the error and how to fix it (example here:
> http://www.bookhooks.com/runon.cfm?errornum=1).
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> I don't want to reinvent the wheel if robust software exists. Your
> suggestions are welcome! And please hurry. I have 43 Gatsby essays in the
> queue. :-)
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>
> Regards,
>
> Adrian
>
> Adrian Hoad-Reddick
> Head of English
> Director, School for Young Writers
> Teacher, Upper School English, Media & Technology
> St. John's-Kilmarnock School
> 2201 Shantz Station Road
> Breslau, ON N0B1M0
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> ahoad@sjkschool.org
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