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R. Byrne shows how to add voice comments on G-Drive with a tool call Kaizena. This blog entry has a video showing how to use Kaizena, plus links to a few other handy how-tos. This might be another way for students to collaborate on their papers and projects.

Kaizena is a wonderful tool for giving oral feedback. This may be faster and more explanatory when working with student essays than writing comments. You will probably give more feedback, and perhaps more positive feedback than when writing cyptic notes. Oral commenting also gives students some listening practice. This YouTube tutorial shows how a teacher is using Kaizena with her student papers.

Add voice comments and video tutorials to any Google Doc. Students love to hear your voice. However, the rubrics offered are too high a language level to be of much use to my Freshman English ESL students. You could, however, add your own rubrics and "canned" comments.

Offers 4 different tools than can help you and students with video and Web work: Scrible to annotate electronic texts lets students work collaboratively and teachers can use annotations for formative assessment and comments; VideoAnt lets you use video as texts to timestamp video for access later, type up notes in a sidebar, and share annotations; Kaizena Shortcut is a Google extension that allows detailed feedback, and can also be used for recordings; EDPuzzle lets teachers create lessons for instructional videos like Khan Academy and give feedback on students progress. These all sound worth a try.

"Vicki Davis looks at EasyBib, Mindmeister, track-changes, table of content, thesaurus, template gallery, texthelp study skills and highlighting tools, workflows, Uber conference calls, consistency checker, gliffy diagrams, twitter curator, Kaizena, document merge, and open clip art." Also tells how to get the Add-Ons and use them. T/H to H. DeWaard on Diigo in Education