I was thinking about how to find the time for the one on one students meetings and I do think zoom gives students and teachers that opportunity. It would ask teachers to meet with students outside of contract time but would love to hear how people fit these student meetings into their day.

I'm going to try to conference while my students are working on their assessments in my room. I'll be giving them real-time feedback as they are working. I don't know that I'll be able to do it weekly. I've "conferenced" using comments on Google Docs as well as in an LMS like Canvas in the past. I'm not sure if that will work well here, or not.

I'm going to try to conference while my students are working on their assessments in my room. I'll be giving them real-time feedback as they are working. I don't know that I'll be able to do it weekly. I've "conferenced" using comments on Google Docs as well as in an LMS like Canvas in the past. I'm not sure if that will work well here, or not.

No doubt the conferencing approach takes some planning (and a bit of magic timing). I think Andrew is on to something though - students really do crave that one-on-one time with teachers - even though they won't admit it! And our words and advice really do make a difference. The difference between the real-time screen feedback and a personal conference though is vast.  Let's do some math (sorry!)...

We do about 5 "real" essays a year...and I have 150ish students.

Each essay process in my class takes about 3 days. Two days to prep and one day to write. Yes, we write in situ but I can't prevent students from working ahead of the schedule.

That means I have to manage ~750 essays every year. If I spent 15 minutes with each student that would be 187.5 hours of "conference" time with students. For a class with 32 students, that means I would dedicate 75 minutes for each student over the course of the year. That's over a month of instructional / "classroom" time to giving one-on-one feedback!

Inconceivable!

Or is it?

As you suggest, the real time feedback is something that can actually be done with OER Project resources like Project Score and Revision Assistant. When a machine can do a bunch of accurate feedback for students, I think that's a good thing!