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Transcript of TaskStream Tools of Engagement for Higher Education 6/5/20141Technology Day 2008.
TaskStream‘Tools of Engagement’ for Higher
Education
04/10/23 1Technology Day 2008
Why Use TaskStream for Your Course?
• Does your course include in-class writings, out-of-class writing homework, or writing assignments for major assignments?
• Does your class encourage students to work as a group to complete in-class group work, out-of-class group work, or group work for a major assignments?
• Does your course require peer-reviewing, free-writing, drafts, and revision exercises?
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TaskStream for Your Course
• Allows the course to work in synchronous and asynchronous time
• Great management system for on ground, online, and blended courses
• Creates an e-portfolio system to collect writing assignments
• Enables peer-reviewing for writing assignments
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TaskStream for Teachers
• Role as authors, reviewers, and evaluators
• Ability to create reports
• Program Resources store course documents
• Evaluate using “Web Marker”
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TaskStream for Students
• Role as authors and reviewers
• View their grades and scored rubrics
• Program Resources display course documents
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Student Feedback from ENG 101
• The portfolio requirement helped me do my best work for the course.• Agree Strongly or Agree = 72%
• TaskStream facilitated my invention, revision, and reflection processes.• Agree Strongly or Agree = 63%
• The course encouraged me to think differently about how and why writing gets done.• Agree Strongly or Agree = 88%
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Other Benefits
• ENG 101 and 102 students have experience using TaskStream
• Renewable subscriptions for post-semester uses
• Develops and/or adds to the students and instructors’ technology skills
• Don’t have to use email or create group pages in Blackboard to share documents
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How Other Universities Use TaskStream
• Western Carolina University- Teacher Education Program
• Watson School of Education
• Western Governors University – Education Program
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E-Portfolio Resources
• What about E-portfolios? (YouTube video)
• Using Technology to Support Alternative Assessment and Electronic Portfolios (Dr. Helen Barrett)
• Example of Professional Portfolio using TaskStream
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Thinking About Using TaskStream?
• Read more from UIS IT department
• Go to TaskStream’s home page
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