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What Trees Teach Us About Feedback
Stands of Subalpine Fir (Abies lasiocarpa) in the subalpine meadows of Mt. Rainier National Park, USA.11trees founder Andrew McCann chose the name 11trees thinking of the "one-to-one" relationships that trees are able to form rather than the random number eleven....
Tips for Library Design
Tyler Wenzel is the organizational brains behind the structure of many of 11trees' licensable Libraries as well as over half a dozen Libraries custom designed for 11trees’ clients. Here he shares some of his top tips for designing an easy-to-navigate Library. In 2018,...
Speed Up Presentation Feedback with AP’s Presentation Skills Edition
Giving feedback on presentations is hard. How do you provide specific, actionable feedback on body language, voice, slide design, content, and handling Q&A without creating a lot of “take home” work? We created the Presentation Skills Edition library of expert...
Annotate PRO Makes Me a Better ESL Instructor
One instructor’s experience teaching English to native Spanish and Portuguese speakers and using Annotate PRO to deepen and improve feedback.
Knowledge workers write more in a day than college students do across an entire term
A typical writing class, at the college level, requires a couple of papers ("essays") in an academic term. Maybe 1,500 words each, or a longer 5,000 word "term paper." Maybe 750 (three pages) each in less demanding curricula. Is this wasted effort on the part of...
It Isn’t Feedback Without a Shared Goal
We've all received useless, incoherent, destructive, or extremely late feedback at one point or another. Sometimes all at once. In my first GE performance review, right after college, I received a “4” on a 1 to 5 scale. When I asked my manager what I could do to...
11trees gratitude, 2021
Greetings from the 11trees team! We are writing to say thank you. To the thousands of educators who found 11trees in 2021, the schools that licensed our software for broad use, and the feedback we received to make our solutions better. We hope you and yours are...
A Biased Comparison: Canvas Comment Libraries and Annotate PRO
We deeply appreciate Canvas - for the competition they bring to the LMS space, for their wonderful APIs, the community they've created and their generous partnership program. Canvas has always cared about learning and clients vs. (for instance) suing competitors over...
What does Canopy do for you? One instructor’s view…
Online education relies on discussion boards to simulate classroom conversation by asking students to read a text and post a series of responses, both original and in dialogue with peers. While discussion boards can be extremely valuable, they can also be frustrating...
11trees Announces the School Resources Edition Service
Austin, TX – July 1, 2020 –11trees LLC, an EdTech company helping scale 1-to-1 engagement, today announced the general availability of the School Resources Edition Library, a service to help schools connect students with the wide array of academic, financial, career...