{"id":4863,"date":"2016-09-27T09:30:47","date_gmt":"2016-09-27T08:30:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/tel\/?p=4863"},"modified":"2016-09-27T11:28:05","modified_gmt":"2016-09-27T10:28:05","slug":"musiccircle-creative-peer-feedback-goes-digital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/tel\/2016\/09\/27\/musiccircle-creative-peer-feedback-goes-digital\/","title":{"rendered":"MusicCircle – creative peer feedback goes digital"},"content":{"rendered":"
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flickr photo by betmari<\/a> shared under a Creative Commons (BY-NC) license<\/p><\/div>\n

Giving and receiving feedback from peers is a great way to learn. After all, professionals do it all the time. Organising this type of activity during a seminar can be difficult, but there are now many online tools for sharing and annotating text. When student\u2019s work is not text-based, however, something else is required.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Dr Chris Kiefer, Lecturer in Music Technology @luuma<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n

Chris Kiefer<\/a> (Media, Film and Music) is using MusicCircle, an online peer learning and peer feedback system that he was involved in developing as part of the EU <\/span>PRAISE project<\/span><\/a>. For this post, Anne Hole<\/a> asked Chris about MusicCircle<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2018MusicCircle was originally developed for musicians but could equally be applied to many other fields.\u2019 <\/i><\/b><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Chris explains that \u2018MusicCircle is a peer learning and peer feedback system. With the aim of enabling creative feedback\u2026. It is a venue for people to share their work and provides an environment for constructive peer feedback between students.\u2019<\/span><\/p>\n

The key to the tool is its \u2018social timeline\u2019 which lets the users highlight a section of audio or video and add a comment – this can then be discussed with others. Although you can add brief comments to audio using SoundCloud<\/a> or discuss YouTube<\/a> videos, Chris argues that they do not allow for the sort of detailed feedback which will help students to improve their work. <\/span><\/p>\n

Designed initially for musicians at Goldsmiths College, MusicCircle takes online the regular feedback sessions which encouraged students to provide constructive feedback to each other. <\/span><\/p>\n

Chris believes that one of the strengths of MusicCircle is that it teaches students to both give and receive <\/span>creative feedback<\/span><\/a>. It can also \u2018increase a sense of community around a course\u2019. <\/span><\/p>\n

Peer feedback is good for students because when we learn how to constructively give feedback we learn how to use feedback constructively in our own work.<\/i><\/b><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The system has been developed and tested with various groups across the five European universities involved in the project and there is even a version that works with coding.<\/span><\/p>\n

See the system demonstrated in this YouTube video –\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n