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3 Ways to Collect Digital Student Work

Of course many teachers would want their students to have Google Drive accounts or Microsoft 365 accounts, but this is surprisingly not the case in many school districts. While some teachers may use LMS systems to solve this issue, today, I wanted to share with you some of my favorite ways to collect digital student work. To often teachers will shy away from student digital creation, as it becomes cumbersome to "collect" or view. I am here to tell you that it doesn't have to be this way.

Without further adieu here are 3 Ways to Collect Digital Student Work 

1. Seesaw

Seesaw is a digital portfolio system that allows students to show what they know. With a free teacher account, students can be tied to a class and are able to login with a QR code or Google account. Teachers can provide assignments or students can create and link their projects to the teacher and/or other students. Check out more about uses as a digital collection tool here.

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2. Google Forms

Google forms have been around for awhile and no doubt we have all filled out a form that someone was using for survey purposes. Well, with a Drive account, you can just as easily sent up a Google Form (survey) as a place to collect digital project links. For example if your class all created Adobe Spark Videos (formally Adobe Voice), it is important to set up a way for students to turn in their final project links. It isn't helpful for all their projects to be stuck on individual iPads. Consider setting up a Google Form to collect student name and their project URL. For easy access make your Google Form link into a tinyurl or bookmark it for younger students. 

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3. dropittome

dropittome is a great resource as anyone can send documents to your Dropbox, Drive or OneDrive without needing an account themselves. As you account holder you decide where you want the files to be "delivered" You create your own account and provide the URL and password to those people from whom you want to receive files. It is easy to set up and collecting digital assignments can start right away!

How about you? What are some of your favorite ways to collect digital student work?

Adobe Voice (App) - Digital Storytelling

I recently had an opportunity to attend the Teaching and Learning Conference at the Convention Center. It just so happened to coincide with this year's Digital Learning Day which allowed for many awesome Technology Integration sessions throughout the conference. In one of these sessions I was able to hear from an elementary team in Bailtmore that uses Adobe Voice to create digital class books. While there are a lot of apps out there for book and story creation, what I love about this one is the quality, the fact that it is free and easy to get off the iPad for teacher/parent viewing. Too often iPad creations live on one iPad and no audience will ever view it. An easy way to have students "turn-in" Adobe Voice creations would be to set up a Google Form to have them turn in the link in (of course I can help with this if you have questions on Form creation).

Check out an example from a student who used Adobe Voice for the first time to share a story her wrote.

Special thanks to Liberty Elementary School and @JoeManko #Liberty64 for presenting @TeachLearnConf

Digital Storytelling

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Voicethread 4 Education - Best Practices

- Top 10 Digital Storytelling Apps for Elementary Students

Digital Storytelling - Research Supporting Digital Storytelling

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Tellagami ™ on the App Store on iTunes

Using Animation and Digital Storytelling to Support Common Core

Narrable | Home

StoryKeepers - iPad StoryTelling APPS

Digital Storytelling - Kathy Schrock's Guide to Everything

Create a presentation

Blogging for Reluctant Writers: Have students share their ideas using sound and video - The Digital Shift

Make a Video. Amazing Animated Video Maker - GoAnimate.

Free Technology for Teachers: Create Simple Narrated Photostories with Pixntell

Kleinspiration: 10 Apps & Sites for Digital Storytelling & more!

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Voicethread 4 Education - home

VoiceThread in the Classroom - Google Docs Thank you to @jborgen for awesome resource list!

Movenote

ECE classes here is the Movenote tutorial I mentioned I would add to the blog!

Here is an example of a Movenote. It is me (Ms. Davenport) as the presenter, discussing the Google Presentation I created about Adding Movenote to Google Drive.