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Many Virtual Learning Environments have powerful feedback functions built in to them, and there are a range of other tools which may be useful and go beyond such inbuilt features. Even if feedback is not automated, technology can support 'drag and drop' commenting, and maintaining a record of such work over time, which may form a useful point of discussion with students. | Many Virtual Learning Environments have powerful feedback functions built in to them, and there are a range of other tools which may be useful and go beyond such inbuilt features. Even if feedback is not automated, technology can support 'drag and drop' commenting, and maintaining a record of such work over time, which may form a useful point of discussion with students. | ||
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Quizzes are, of course, an obvious way to provide automated feedback. These may also be setup for 'in class' use via clickers, other similar devices, or mobile phones (and of course, mini-whiteboards). The advantage in this context is the ability to use responses to orchestrate dialogue around the whole class response system, and to extend the learning beyond the type of 'closed question' system which can be common in online multiple choice quizzes. | |||
==Collaboration== | ==Collaboration== | ||
Some tools may also provide for such dialogue online in the context of | Some tools may also provide for such dialogue online in the context of quizzes and other activities such as shared extended writing. A number of tools (e.g. Google Docs) provide chat functions alongside document areas, while others allow collaborative authoring in different ways (e.g. wikis, see for example [[http://scholar.google.com/scholar?cluster=14950556078088218431&hl=en&as_sdt=0,5|this article]] on the Thinking Together approach and the use of wikis). | ||
Such tools may be used for a range of activities, including multimedia creation, question and answer forums, and collaborative writing activities - on which more below. | Such tools may be used for a range of activities, including multimedia creation, question and answer forums, and collaborative writing activities - on which more below. | ||
