Initial comments (a more formal report will follow...)

Well, as a first attempt at an unconference it wasn't too bad. People came, they joined in, they seemed to find it useful. We had established a number of themes under the main theme of assessment that we wanted to talk about before hand:

• keyboard examinations;
• how to get students to work as a group and then assess as individuals;
• authentic assessment ('Learning-place working');
• why we assess and what teachers hope students will gain from assessment;
• Blackboard assessment for a laboratory practical;
• assessment strategies and plagiarism;
  
• and one other raised at the beginning - peer assessment.

Links

Here's a link to the report from Richard England's pilot project on keyboard examinations , and here are the slides from Eran Tauber's Blackboard assessment for a laboratory practical.

Blog posts

Several people have already blogged about the unconference, so you may wish to read their reflections.

• Jo Badge (Biological Sciences) Unconference was unboring
• Alan Cann (Biology) #uollts Learning and Teaching in the Sciences Unconference Roundup
  
• Gareth Johnson (Library) Learning and Teaching in the Sciences Unconference
  
• Moira Sarsfield (Life Sciences, Imperial College London) Twitterfall for virtual conference attendance
• Stephen McClean (University of Ulster) Conference Report - University of Ulster

Twitter

Alan has included a copy of the Tweet stream, if you're interested (is it interesting!). And below is a handy wordle of the unconference tweets.