Comments on: Yack Pack

By: Miller Lundberg

Miller Lundberg — Fri, 09 Mar 2007 19:04:03 +0000

In my opinion i dont think Yak pak is a good idea. The possiblity for it to mess up is very high and the results aren’t that good. It is a lot harder to correct a paper from verbal comments rather comments written on your paper. Overall i think it is a waste and is pointless

By: RyanH5

RyanH5 — Fri, 09 Mar 2007 19:00:39 +0000

I think this is a great program. It can be very useful for the teacher to communicate to the student on their time. I was one of the few who’s feedback didn’t go through, but I think it would have been very helpful. YackPack will probably fix that problem though. Overall I think it is great new thing that uses the technology we have can really help.

By: MattO3

MattO3 — Thu, 08 Mar 2007 16:27:51 +0000

It sounds like a pretty good idea, but it created some problems cause i didn’t get an invite to join a class. This became a problem because I didnt get any feedback on my second draft. It is cool that you can record what you are thinking because it will give us a better understanding of what you mean by analyzing your tone and expressions. Right now we are currently arguing about you giving us too much work and I think a mutiny is about to happen.

By: JayF3

JayF3 — Thu, 08 Mar 2007 16:19:53 +0000

I like yackpack, but it was difficult because I did not get an email from yackpack inviting me on so I only got to hear 3 minutes of it at school. It was also confusing because I got 3 other peoples paper analysis, so I had to figure out which one was mine. Yackpack is a good idea in theory, we need to refine the yackpack techniques before we bust them out on the biggest grade of the year next time…

By: Jason R1

Jason R1 — Thu, 08 Mar 2007 14:31:17 +0000

I have really enjoyed using the new YackPack for our revision work. It allows us to pause and stop after each of the comments. Also it is very nice hearing your paper read out loud. I can understand the reader’s first reaction to what she is reading and maybe have something to change from that.

By: TonyC1

TonyC1 — Thu, 08 Mar 2007 14:22:20 +0000

The new yackpack system is pretty cool. It allows us to receive feedback verbally and gives us a chance to hear someone read our paper. I think that when someone else reads your paper to you, you realize how good or bad the paper is. You dont have to worry about messy handwriting but instead you get the occasional yawn or cough. Overall its a cool new thing.

By: lakel1

lakel1 — Wed, 07 Mar 2007 19:27:08 +0000

it is easy to follow the verbal feedback with the paper. this way at any time you can always go back to what your teacher said as many times as you want even though you are not in class.

By: RebeccaO7

RebeccaO7 — Mon, 05 Mar 2007 20:42:41 +0000

I think that the YakPak is a very good idea. I am glad that we will actually get verbal feedback and that will make most of us feel a little bit better. It is sure to be more in depth than just writing on our drafts so I am ready to get my feedback. I received the invitation but I haven’t gotten the 2nd draft feedback. Hopefully I will get it tonight!

By: CharlesB7

CharlesB7 — Mon, 05 Mar 2007 20:40:06 +0000

I think the YackPak can be really helpful. Since we were not able to have a conference I think this is the next best thing. It is a good way to across complete ideals about someone’s paper. For someone like me, I need as much help I can get and you can get more from listening to what someone has to say than from when they write it down because they cannot get all their true thoughts on paper.

By: adamso7

adamso7 — Mon, 05 Mar 2007 17:14:34 +0000

This is a great idea. I think that writing confrences would have been better, but we have to do the most with what we have got, right. All it really is, is an imformal writing confrence. So far Yack Pack has worked great, and i would not mind doing it again. I did teceive your e-mail. This is a great deal of help to the, cramped for time, paper process.