Earlier this week, Kristina Tzetzos spoke to us about her educational program Spinndle. Unfortunately, while I was eventually able to log into my temporary account, no content loaded and I wasn’t able to look around and explore or use the program. From what I could gather, Spinndle offers a very similar experience to FreshGrade, possibly with greater opportunity for peer feedback, which could admittedly be useful for certain assignments. A major goal of Spinndle seems to be to ease the practice of assessment as learning and to help student metacognition by enabling to better understand what they are learning. Spinndle is apaprently optimized for training students to take charge of their own learning and self-assessment. Worthy goals indeed.

Having not had the opportunity to actually explore the program I would be hard pressed to say more about it at the moment.