NowComment for Educational Use

Video Overviews

Interface and Commenting Basics (covers 2016 video and image enhancements)	NowComment Basics (full workflow, 2012)	NowComment: Educational Uses of Online Discussion	Video Tour of Selected NowComment Features

Note: With the exception of #1, these videos are several years old, but they still do a good job showing how NowComment works, even though we've made many improvements (e.g. simplifying the Upload Document workflow while adding a Preview). Click a media player's bottom right corner to play in full-screen mode.

Also check out the NowComment screencasts made by Heidi Weber, the 2013 NCTE National Teacher of the Year and a 2015 PBS Learning Media Digital Innovator. She has both how-to tutorials and other posts emphasizing educational theory, e.g. Delving into Discourse (Digital Literacy for elementary school students).

Resources	Pedagogy	Sample Uses
Features Gallery (an explanation of all NowComment's features) Single Sign-on (SSO) access to NowComment is available to your users/students via the standard LTI interface for both WordPress and LMSs; for LMSs we have both general documentation using Canvas as an example and Moodle-specific documentation. “How To” videos and texts FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions)	EdTechTalk's weekly Teachers Teaching Teachers webinar has devoted two hour-long episodes to NowComment, August 24, 2016 and September 2015 (the latter relates to some annotated readings). Facilitator Paul Allison and a wide range of K12 teachers (including Heidi Weber in 2015) share ideas about using NowComment to engage their students. Pedagogical Benefits of NowComment Online Discussion (overview table) .pdf or .doc formats NowComment: Classroom Engagement and Social Learning Articles & Instructor Feedback NowComment for Higher Ed (1-page overview flyer for the University of Virginia) Comparison: NowComment vs. GoogleDocs vs. MS Word	An August 2016 multimedia demo from the 2016 Presidential election campaign (August 2016) showing how NowComment can powerfully integrate videos, images, and text in a single document Samples uses of image annotation/discussion NowComment for K-12 (Common Core): A district educational consultant and a 7th grade teacher describe their successful NowComment pilot (PowerPoint, students' names changed): First use: Human Family (poem) Mid-year: The Father of the Chicken Nugget (article) Year-end: What Poe's Publishers Could Not Imagine (article) Noah and the Flood (Higher Ed scholarly discussion) Lesson Plan: Dicken's A Christmas Carol (high school sample use)

Last updated July 30, 2018

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