Well, I had a lot of fun in the exhibit hall with Jeff and David. We ran into Brian and Lance there and they pointed us to a really cool product, OER Commons (which Tai mentions in his blog). I really liked that one a lot because after one of the reading assignments from my 801 class, I've been thinking a lot about pre-existing materials. They have an enormous database of freely available materials for education. Also, the lady was really nice and obviously cared deeply about her project.
The product that I really dug was gooseGrade. It's "crowd-copyediting." Great for students to improve their English if they copyedit each other's assignments, but also great for anyone who'd love to have input on their writing skills. I wonder... Does this work for whatever language? I imagine that it could as far as the users actually inputting corrections and/or responding to them, but that the badge and their "grading" dialog box would need to be translated.
There was a bunch of other neat stuff there, but I don't want to ruin anyone else's chances of reporting on it.
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I liked the goosegrade booth too. A very cool concept to allow open access to editing. I didn't see the OER commons so thanks for the link.
ReplyDeleteI hated the Goosegrade concept. I thought, it would suck to have people checking and rating my spelling, punctuation, and grammar and then the rating shows up on my blog for everyone to see how schtoopid I am--until I am forced by he public humiliation factor to fix it. sheesh.
ReplyDeleteGuess that idea was totally triggering for me...