I agree on all counts; my handwriting is also horrible and my typing very fast--my hands can't keep up with my thoughts but my fingers can.
I also have had the problem with accept all changes. Just this semester, I had a student who had written in a citation by noting the title of the paper. I added in a comment and in the text wrote AuthorA and Author B (????) noted that.... Well, guess what the final copy of the paper said? You got it. And so the grade went in the toilet. It was clear he had not read my comments even or he would have gone in changed that appropriate as the comment instructed him to do. I would dearly love a technology that would allow my comments without my handwriting. Next year I am just going to type comments right into the paper in red font such as: Don't use the title of the paper, check APA style on p. 174 of the manual. That way I'll know they have to read it and change it and can't just accept my changes. I won't make changes of any sort. Annette Annette Kujawski Taylor, Ph. D. Professor, Psychological Sciences University of San Diego 5998 Alcala Park San Diego, CA 92110 [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> ________________________________ From: Claudia Stanny [[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, May 18, 2010 8:16 AM To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) Subject: Re: [tips] Grading of papers submitted electronically I haven't used the pen tablet technology, but my gut reaction is to resist the temptation to continue the habit of written marginal notes. Now if the tablet technology will convert your scrawl into readable typed text . . . . I might revise my opinion. :-) My reasons are driven mainly by my own bad handwriting and my fast typing. So I have my biases. If you plan to use track changes, you can comment at length in the comments. Space in the margin is no longer a problem. (I'm thinking of comments that go up the side of the page and around to the reverse side!) The process of providing feedback to students through track changes has led me to rely more on comments and resist using track changes for copy editing (unless I am working with a student on a thesis or a jointly-authored manuscript). For comments about issues of grammar or awkward language, I highlight problem passages and insert a comment about how it needs to be fixed. Maybe fix one sentence in track changes as a model. But it is too easy for a student to simply hit "accept all changes" -- then we've done the editing work and the student has done and learned nothing. Claudia J. Stanny, Ph.D. Director, Center for University Teaching, Learning, and Assessment Associate Professor, Psychology University of West Florida 11000 University Parkway Pensacola, FL 32514 – 5751 Phone: (850) 857-6355 or 473-7435 [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> CUTLA Web Site: http://uwf.edu/cutla/ Personal Web Pages: http://uwf.edu/cstanny/website/index.htm On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 9:40 AM, Paul Bernhardt <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: This semester I am doing my first grading of papers submitted electronically. What I'm doing is what occurred to me to be sensible, using the comments feature of Word to make notes and attaching a grade rubric table to the end of the paper that I fill with the points earned. However, I can imagine a more natural approach based on use of a pen-tablet user interface. It might be quicker, yet accomplish the same thing. What experience and knowledge do any of you have with such devices and/or methods? (I'm thinking in terms of my technology request for next year, of course.) Thanks in anticipation of great ideas forthcoming. Paul Bernhardt Dept of Psychology Frostburg State University pcbernhardt _at_ frostburg _dot_ edu --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13144.1572ed60024e708cf21c4c6f19e7d550&n=T&l=tips&o=2697 or send a blank email to leave-2697-13144.1572ed60024e708cf21c4c6f19e7d...@fsulist.frostburg.edu<mailto:leave-2697-13144.1572ed60024e708cf21c4c6f19e7d...@fsulist.frostburg.edu> --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13534.4204dc3a11678c6b1d0be57cfe0a21b0&n=T&l=tips&o=2699 (It may be necessary to cut and paste the above URL if the line is broken) or send a blank email to leave-2699-13534.4204dc3a11678c6b1d0be57cfe0a2...@fsulist.frostburg.edu<mailto:leave-2699-13534.4204dc3a11678c6b1d0be57cfe0a2...@fsulist.frostburg.edu> --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [email protected]. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5&n=T&l=tips&o=2704 or send a blank email to leave-2704-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
