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Quiz Socket is a new tool developed for the purpose of enabling teachers to quickly gather feedback from students. Quiz Socket enables students to respond to questions through their cell phones, tablets, and laptops.

Summary: Kim Jaxon, a teacher-consultant with the Northern California Writing Project, describes a peer response strategy that, in addition to providing responders with focused guiding questions, allows them adequate time to draft thoughtful responses. Excerpt from Article When I first asked students to give feedback, they were writing immediate feedback in class.

Here's a course description for a "Twenty-First Century Literacies" class I will be teaching in Spring 2010. This is for students who are not (yet) English majors. But a different version will also be the gateway course for our proposed new Master's in Knowledge and Networks that we will be posting on Comment Press next month for feedback.