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Nigel Jones
In eight years of producing screen capture feedback I have produced over 1200 videos for students. At the HEA Social Sciences conference in 2015 at The Studio Manchester it was great to see a number of presentations on screen capture feedback.
Two uses of screen capture feedback stood out to me, one from Emma Mayhew, Reading University which involved Turnitin feedback with an additional video within video personal message from the lecture to the students, the other was from Philip Jones, Cardiff Metropolitan University providing feedback from a summative examination as either an exemplar model personalised for the student from their exam answer paper, or the scanning in via a data visualiser of the student’s examination answer paper; both with commentaries etc.
Figure 1 Screen Capture poster with video screen
For this conference I presented a talking poster, with a video screen that was able to show attendees real student feedback. The video poster included interviews with both staff and students about creating and receiving screen capture feedback, (Figure 1).
In the conference sessions I chaired a session and presented a fairly standard piece on the benefits of screen capture feedback, I presented it more as a conversation and a demonstration, I wanted to show how easy it is to create one of best forms of feedback possible. How it mimics the normal process of providing feedback. Even after 8 years and 1200 videos the response of students is still positive and the comments made are almost the same as in the first year.
The third item was one of the ignite sessions of 20 slides in five minutes. This was a real challenge 20 slides in five minutes at your own personal pace is fine, but having 15 seconds on each slide come what may, and they moved on without any intervention from you is perplexing.
Figure 2 Screen Capture alternative inputs for capture and communication
This Ignite presentation was on the work of Philip Jones, another lecturer at Cardiff Metropolitan and his development of providing exemplar tailored model answers as feedback to student examination questions. Examination feedback is something that rarely happens for all students, it’s reserved for those who need to recover the exam, and this work showed feedback from examinations could be provided to all students, with a personalised version of their work overlaid onto the expected answer. The video was emailed to the student with the audio commentary, mouse movements, and other recordable materials, see figure 2. An alternative method of importation using a data visualizer was suggested to enable the exam papers to be captured.
Figure 3 Screen Capture procedure
My history with screen capture feedback started in the academic year 2006/2007 when I started to produce student feedback via screen capture. Immediately I could see the benefits of this rich feedback potential and shared the idea with other staff. The student feedback file is a screen capture video, with audi