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Using your Voice to increase your AFL efficiency

Is typing not your specialty? Try Kami and Kaizena

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String Team & Lance Tan
January 25, 2023

Is typing not your specialty?

With the increasing onset of Ed-Tech and Blended learning, teachers are increasingly expected to use technology in their daily teaching & learning. Naturally, part of this includes online submission of work and providing feedback. While talking to a fellow colleague, I found that giving feedback online can be a cumbersome task for some teachers due to the fact that they do not type very quickly. Here are some suggestions on how you can maximise technology to better improve your feedback:

1) Use an App to provide voice comments directly (e.g. Kaizena, Kami)

  • Kaizena is a google docs add on that allows you to leave voice comments over specific parts of student work.

  • Kaizena allows you to also rate students the skills demonstrated by students in their work, as well as attach lessons to comments to help students follow up in their learning.

  • Kami (and other apps) also allows you to leave voice comments directly on students' work. Kami has a whole host of other functions which I'm still exploring.

2) Transcribe your voice to text and transfer the comments

  • Kami (and other apps) also allows you to leave voice comments directly on students' work. Kami has a whole host of other functions which I'm still exploring.

  • Create a google docs on your phone. You can use the voice to text function to transcribe your feedback to your students. Thereafter, you can copy the feedback and paste it on to the platform you're using (SLS, Padlet, etc.)

  • I recommend using a phone as you can speak directly into the microphone of your phone as compared to speaking to the computer. This increases the chances of getting an accurate transcription.

  • Alternatively, if you're sufficiently vested, you can invest in a microphone (worn on your head or otherwise) to achieve the same effect.

  • You can see the video below for a quick tutorial on how voice to text works on Google Docs.

Other noteworthy features integrated in apps like above include:

Other unique selling points of Kaizena

Both apps already integrate well with Gsuite and more!

Let us know other apps you use to integrate Speech Recognition in your teaching workflows(: