Dave, Anish, and David R. Russell. “Drafting and Revision Using Word Processing by Undergraduate Student Writers: Changing Conceptions and Practices.” Research in the Teaching of English (May 2010). (pdf) In Dave and Russell’s study, “an aggregate of 64.3% of students reported that their revision generally consisted of revising specific words or sentences and proofreading” (p. [...]
Today, Eli launches a brand-new sales and support site that will live at http://elireview.com. Because the support site is taking over this domain, the login screen for Eli itself is moving: you can access Eli directly now at http://app.elireview.com or use the login link from any point on the support site. This small change in accessing the application [...]
The good news: Eli use is growing! More students and teachers are using Eli this fall than ever before and the Eli creative and development teams couldn’t be happier that more people are learning about review. The bad news: growing pains! As more instructors and students are using the system we’re finding spots where Eli [...]
It’s been a long summer and the Eli team has been hard at work preparing for the new academic year. While there haven’t been many new features developed, we’ve been working hard to improve Eli’s existing functionality, stability, and general user experience. Some of the highlights of Eli development over the summer: editing comments – [...]
When we launched our Eli pilot test with several Michigan school districts late last year, we hit a painful roadblock almost immediately. We discovered that all of our pilot schools rely on Internet Explorer 7 (IE7) and only one school had access to a more modern browser (and had to jump through several hoops to [...]
Bill Hart-Davidson presented Eli to faculty from across MSU at the Explorations in Instructional Technology brownbag series on Friday, January 21, 2011. Below is video from Bill’s lecture as well as the slideshow he presented. A full video of the Q&A session that followed the lecture will be available shortly.
As we’ve begun working more intensely with public school users, we’ve come to terms with the fact that Eli is going to have to run in Internet Explorer 7. Some schools do have browser options, but many just don’t, and it’s clear that if Eli is going to thrive in schools, it will have to [...]
Hello Eli community! Schools across the country are starting new semesters and marking periods, which means more beta testers, and more beta testers means more issues unearthed. We’ve been hearing from you all week and have been working hard to address issues you’ve identified for us. Here’s a comprehensive list: Secret Questions – we need [...]
The Eli development team is continually listening to user feedback and making adjustments to interfaces and features. There are frequent minor changes, but recently there have been a substantial number of modifications to things users see and use regularly, so we thought we’d sum up some of those changes and explain why they were needed. [...]
In the first of a new series of videos discussing Eli, Michigan State University faculty and Eli co-creators Bill Hart-Davidson and Jeff Grabill discuss the application and it’s features as well as the ways it can change writing pedagogy. These videos were produced by Michigan State University Professional Writing undergraduate David Johnson. How Eli Changes [...]