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Instructional Tidbits: The Hour of Code is back next week! We have had great success participating in this over the years. Coding helps our kids problem solve, think strategically, and learn from their mistakes. See the Hour of Code page on the Armstrong Website for more info. This is linked from the Students page to make it easy for your students to access all of the activities. Make sure your class doesn't miss out on the fun! If your class is going to participate next week, tweet me @brooksteacher with #hourofcode for a prize this week.
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Instructional Tidbits: Don't forget the power of the camera on your student iPads. This is a great tool for kids to capture their work, their process, and their metacognition in any subject. A simple picture or video can turn into a great formative assessment piece to really capture what they know. Videos can be created as a reflection to their work, using your Justand to prop up the iPad steadily. Pictures and videos can be quickly uploaded to Google Drive and shared with the teacher, or loaded to Google Classroom. Try having a share time where students share something they are proud of through a picture or video! Updates:
Instructional Tidbits: Google Classroom is quickly becoming a go to tool for many. It is one place to do quite a bit. You can use it as a resource repository- simply posting links to videos, documents, websites, etc. for your kids to click on. Ramp it up a bit, and you can use it as a discussion board for students to post their comments and reply to each other. This could be a Reading Response, a reflection on their most recent writing piece, and explanation of how they arrived at an answer in Math, a summary of a unit is Social Studies, anything that links to your curriculum. Next, you could build assignments for students. With assignments, you push it out once and it goes individually to every student in your classroom. They must complete the assignment and "turn it in". You set a due date, grade the assignment, share resources within the assignment, and provide feedback. The beauty of Google Classroom is all of the other Google Apps work nicely within it. You or your students can add a Doc, Sheet, Slide, or Form to Classroom. It also accepts outside files, such as Word or PDFs, YouTube videos, and links to other websites. Need more? I made three videos about Google Classroom that are posted on the Video Tutorials page. Don't forget to ask your team what they are doing too! Updates:
Instructional Tidbits: Google Forms are a great way to compile and document assessment data in your classroom. This can be formal, such as a summative test, or in can be very informal, including anecdotal notes. The great thing about a form is that there is a Google Sheet (spreadsheet) on the back end collecting all of the responses. From there, you can sort, find, highlight, and manipulate the data however you need. This helps tremendously when preparing for parent conferences, 504 meetings, ARDs, and report cards. Did you know Forms now has a quiz feature? Go to the Settings Gear on Forms and select Quizzes. You will build questions, select answer choices, and assign point values. After making the quiz, use the Google Extension to shorten your URL, then post it on the board, on Google Classroom, or on your website for easy access. Once your students take the quiz and hit submit, it will be graded for you! How easy and efficient! Please fill out this Google Form about Individualized Tech Plans, to help me collect data for my SDAS question. https://goo.gl/5apX0z Same link as above. |
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