Week 6 will be work time, set aside for you to create item(s) to use with your students. Please decide what you will build using your newly gained skills.
Please pick something you can use with your class in the next week and happy building!
Socrative allows you to deliver easy formative assessment and have students respond beyond multiple choice (Plickers). You will need devices (iPads, laptops, desktops) for your students, but any device will work. Socrative allows you to collect feedback from students through precreated questions, on-the-fly questions and exit tickets. Your students don't need accounts, but rather by teacher "room code" and type in their name. Check out this demo and did I mention it is free!
"Socrative empowers you to engage and assess your students as learning happens. Through the use of real-time questioning, result aggregation, and visualization, you have instant insight into levels of understanding so you can use class time to better collaborate and grow as a community of learners."
Click on “Add Classes" - create small group class names
Click "Manage Students" and place students within class names where appropriate
Now when you assign bulbs you can really differentiate for your class!
Assign A Bulb
Click on the “assign” button on the lesson thumbnail
Click on “assign” next to the appropriate class.
Select a due date and then click “close.”
Monitor Students
To track student activity and data, click the “Monitor” tab on the dashboard. Shortcut: From the Bulbs tab, click on the 3 dots on the lesson thumbnail and click Monitor
Overall class performance data
Navigate to the monitor tab and click into a class grouping. Here you will see:
Class average on the lesson
Breakdown of class performance for each question (hover over the bar to view the question)
Students’ ratings of the lesson
Individual student data
To view individual student performance on a bulb:
Navigate to the monitor tab
Click into a class grouping
Click on the lesson thumbnail to the left
Now you are on the “Question-by-Question Breakdown” page where you can see individual student data color-coded. Red: this student got the question wrong Orange: this response has not been graded yet. It is either a FR question or a student has created an explanation for their incorrect answer. Click on it to assign a point value for the response or explanation. Green: the student got the answer correct. You can click on a student answer to view more details, including the time the student completed it. You can also see student rating of the lesson by clicking on the emoticon.
I am happy to announce that we now have access Play Posit Premium as a school site. Play Posit is an interactive video program that allows you to use videos and embed different types of questioning formats throughout the viewing process. Students can than interact in a more thoughtful way with videos/video clips. This lends itself very well to the idea of a “flipped-classroom”.
Note: Play Posit recommends Google Chrome for the best experience.
Here are a couple of action items and resources to get onboarded:
1.Sign up for a Play Posit, then logout and click this link to upgrade to Premium (all teachers at Powell will automatically
be upgraded to premium)
Today let's explore creating one video. Next week we can explore assigning videos and looking at reports. Pick a URL for a video you could use to embed questions.
This allows students to respond with devices (laptops, iPads) to a teacher prompted. Responses are displayed onto the SMART Notebook page for viewing and manipulating.
Plickers is a free alternative to clicker systems that can be very costly for a school. Plickers are easy to set-up and use. Create a free account, input your students, pre-create questions or create questions on the fly. Plickers allow you to "tailer instruction with instant feedback". Plickers allow you to instantly gain access to student responses to multiple choice or true/false question styles.
What you will need:
Plicker Account
Pre-created or "on the fly" questions
Plicker Cards (one for each student)
iPad or Smartphone (with Plicker App)
"Seeing responses like these on @plickers quizzes lets me know I can move on! #standardsbased" - @andersoneLHS
Ideas for Plicker Use
Class Polls
Surveys
Exit Ticket responses
Answer multiple choice already created through Go Math
Answer multiple choice already created anywhere!
Multiple choice from BrainPop or other videos
And of course creating your own questions
Interested in more Plickers Training?
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