Mark Smithers

Learning and Educational Technology in Higher Education

March, 2010

Social Networks Adapting Pedagogical Practice – SNAPP

I came across this useful tool this morning thanks to watching Anne Marie Cunningham’s interesting presentation on using Web 2.0 technologies in BlackBoard. The tool is called Social Networks Adapting Pedagogical Practice (SNAPP) and it is defined on the SNAPP site as: SNAPP is a software tool that allows users to visualize the network of [...]

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Assessment Manager Part 1 – Overview

In 2004 I wrote a web application for managing student assessments. It was primarily designed for handling the submission of assessments from large cohorts of students. It manages the assessment lifecycle including creating assignments, managing marking schemes, handling submissions, distributing groups of assignments to assessors, facilitating easier online marking, enhancing rapid feedback and the moderation [...]

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