foolfillment: the blog

In between enjoying all the fabulous weather we’ve had this summer I’ve had a few ideas spinning through my mind about what I want to try doing next year along with all the emotions that come with starting a job like this one.

One of the things I’ve been trying to work out is how I can best use some online tools next year, much of this will all work itself out when I start and I find out just how much time I have and what services are available in school. What I’m looking at though is using Pownce a lot. If you’ve not had a look yet and want to know what it is that I’m banging on about then I’ve got an extra 6 invitations. Leave a comment if you want one.

What I’m quite excited about is the ability to create groups of people/friends - I want to use this to collect all my classes together then find a way to carry out their course. The ease in which you can send messages to groups means that I am certain that this is a really cool way of getting some peer assessment going, as well as simple sharing of files appropriate to that day/week’s lesson.

Another of the benefits I think it will have is that there is no need to post long messages, something I think will appeal to the pupils, and will make managing time more easy.

What I’m looking at doing is running my presentation class for Craft and Design with a little pownce work throughout. As they progress through the different stages of their folio they will be required to post various work online - thoughts, links, items of work - and also to spend time looking at the things that their classmates have done and replying to them. Peer assessment if you will, but more than that using other people’s opinions/preferences/ideas to refine their designs.

There’s so many possibilities, I’m pretty excited about it, much more so than I was about twitter. My enthusiasm has brought out a side of me I thought I’d managed to suppress for a while - my need to constantly redesign. Those of you who read this on the site itself and not in a browser will see I’ve added pownce to my sidebar, I think I’ll use this to add shorted posts that don’t warrant a whole post on the main blog, so if you want you can subscribe to the feed.

I’ve got a few other ideas I’m trying to work out in my head. Do you have anything to offer?

Tags: peer-assessment, pownce

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