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What does the Tk in “Tk20” stand for?

What does the Tk in “Tk20” stand for?. We don’t know and Tk20 hasn’t explained Some memorable student suggestions include: Teacher Killer 2.0 Terrifying Klown Totally Keasy (the ‘k’ is silent) Technical Katastrophe Create your own!. Dr. Frank Mabee Department of English.

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What does the Tk in “Tk20” stand for?

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  1. What does the Tk in “Tk20” stand for? • We don’t know and Tk20 hasn’t explained • Some memorable student suggestions include: • Teacher Killer 2.0 • Terrifying Klown • Totally Keasy (the ‘k’ is silent) • Technical Katastrophe • Create your own!

  2. Dr. Frank Mabee Department of English How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb Tk20

  3. Title & [k]ontent • Using Rubrics for Literature Essays • Assessment: TK20 vs. Blackboard vs. Paper • Tk20 Course Binders • Some Issues

  4. The Rubri[K]: 2210 • Rubrics and writing classes OK, but literature? • What is an explication essay and what does it do? • Assessable criteria: • close reading • interpretation • thesis • topic sentences • paragraphs • integration of quotes • style and diction • grammar and mechanics

  5. The Rubri[K]: 2210 • Assessing literature essays: rubrics in addition to marginal and terminal comments • Consistency across papers • At-a-glance guide for students to see where they need to improve • Different ways to attach a rubric • Paper • Word document emailed to students • Blackboard • Tk20

  6. Tk20 Screen Capture – Assignment Interface (Essay prompt on left, assessment tool on right)

  7. Tk20 Screen Capture – Assignment Interface (Essay prompt on left, rubric on right)

  8. Whither Tk20? • Paper essays and rubrics are just another sheet of paper for students to lose. They probably can’t read your handwriting. Most can’t read mine. • How to keep a detailed record of it once it’s returned or sent? • Forms and Rubrics are easy to use and once they’re built, they’re built • Students can use “Feedback” feature for sending drafts to you • You can generate reports! That’s right! Reports!

  9. Course Binders in Tk20 • Send your course materials to students • Tabbed Sections • Create links to Documents (syllabus, quizzes, essay prompts) • Students upload their material to the binder • One-stop collection of student work for the semester

  10. Document Room in Tk20

  11. The Key to Nothing: Some Issues with TK20

  12. Total [k]op-Out • No way to edit student artifacts and resubmit them • No feedback on quiz or exam responses • Or… is there? • Ask Stephen Wall-Smith or Ann Hogan about form builder – they can add an upload field to your rubrics • Tk20 can also make the links in your Course Binder, if you don’t want to write HTML code

  13. Title (K)lincher: Till Knockout 2.0 The Devilish Default Vs. Teacher Killer 2.0

  14. The Call of [k]thulu • Tk20 as “External Link” in Blackboard • Possible future uses of Tk20 for the English Department • Tk20 for Senior Portfolio assessment • Tk20 for Writing I and II • Rubrics tied into our new Goals and Objectives • Assignment-driven classes work well with Tk20 • Feedback feature for early drafts • Build a rubric! Make a binder!

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