{"id":10435,"date":"2010-10-15T11:52:58","date_gmt":"2010-10-15T15:52:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=10435"},"modified":"2010-10-15T11:56:01","modified_gmt":"2010-10-15T15:56:01","slug":"using-web-video-to-fine-tune-student-performance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2010\/10\/15\/using-web-video-to-fine-tune-student-performance\/","title":{"rendered":"Using web video to fine-tune student performance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/chronicle.com\/blogs\/wiredcampus\/using-web-video-to-fine-tune-student-performance\/27558\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Using web video to fine-tune student performance <\/strong><\/a>&#8212; from The Chronicle by Travis Kaya<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/chronicle.com\/blogs\/wiredcampus\/files\/2010\/10\/student_single.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/chronicle.com\/blogs\/wiredcampus\/files\/2010\/10\/student_single-283x300.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"272\" height=\"288\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left; padding-left: 30px;\">For  three years, faculty and students at Baruch College of the City  University of New York have been honing their public-speaking and  presentation skills online with the college\u2019s <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.baruch.cuny.edu\/vocat\/index.php?id=71\" target=\"_blank\">Video Oral Communication Assessment Tool<\/a>, or VOCAT, which allows instructors to view and give feedback on uploaded student videos.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left; padding-left: 30px;\">After finding success with the tool on campus, developers are now  actively searching for ways to take VOCAT to the next level, both beyond  Baruch and across academic disciplines. <strong>They believe video-sharing on  VOCAT has potential application in everything from distance learning and  foreign-language instruction to performance arts and industrial trades.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left; padding-left: 30px;\">\u201cWe\u2019re looking ahead to where it might go,\u201d said Mikhail Gershovich,  platform designer and director of the Bernard L. Schwartz Communication  Institute at Baruch. \u201cI don\u2019t want this to be just an assessment tool.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left; padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>VOCAT allows students to view videos of themselves giving  presentations or performances online<\/strong>\u2014all video is taped and uploaded by a  college technician\u2014and lets them read and respond to feedback from  faculty members. The software also keeps a log of student videos,  allowing them to track their progress over the course of a semester&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Using web video to fine-tune student performance &#8212; from The Chronicle by Travis Kaya For three years, faculty and students at Baruch College of the City University of New York have been honing their public-speaking and presentation skills online with the college\u2019s Video Oral Communication Assessment Tool, or VOCAT, which allows instructors to view and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[433,9,434,419,256,62,133,66,50,49],"tags":[776,571,777,770,700,601,635,603,594],"class_list":["post-10435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-communications","category-digital-video","category-dramatheater","category-ideas-teaching","category-music","category-online-learning","category-online-media","category-student-related","category-teaching-learning","category-web-based-collaboration","tag-communications","tag-digital-video","tag-dramatheater","tag-ideas-teaching","tag-music","tag-online-learning","tag-online-media","tag-student-related","tag-teaching-learning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10435","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10435"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10435\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10440,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10435\/revisions\/10440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}