The first is Google Live Forms.
I've always loved this application, it's usefulness as an assessment tool is massive:You can reach students wherever and whenever they have Internet access with traditional style assessment tools i.e. quizzes and worksheets that will automatically collect, correct and organize the the assessment information. It's a great way to very efficiently gather both formative and summative data from the whole class.
Here's a sample form that I made in > 5 min:
SAMPLE FORM
Please fill it out to generate some data!
Here is the Google Spreadsheet that collects the results.
Pretty handy!
iPad: Made by Apple
Umm, actually to be specific, I am exploring a tool within a tool: Guided Access on the iPad. There are so many great teaching and learning applications (in all senses of the word!) for the iPad... but there is also a tendency to exit some of those apps and go find Angry Birds! Guided Access solves this as I will demonstrate:(please let me know if the you aren't able to view video... I'm not sure I shared it correctly!)
I have been making recipes!
That is, I've been trying out "IFTTT" the, 'if this, then that' application that has that generality that can literally be used in an infinite number of ways to enhance teaching and learning (just won the world record for most uses of the word that in a sentence!).Not only can an educator create efficiencies for learning (for example setting up notifications and records of students' posts to come to any app [mail, evernote, oneNote] when any student posts to a shared doc, social media page, etc.) but students and teachers can co-create recipes that in a very basic way introduce programming and hacker/makers' skills = developing 21st C inquiry skills! Identifying problems or needs, planning solutions, collaborating to put plans in action, and communicating about outcomes.
It's been a fun week!
Guided Access Tutorial by Mark McInnes is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
IFTT can be so useful but I generally do not bring it up during Part One because people need to have a strong sense of social media and how each of the platforms can interconnect. When used right, you can have a strong digital footprint in the many corners of your educational, professional and even personal life (ie: connecting instagram to twitter or facebook, connecting blogs to delicious, twitter....).
ReplyDeleteIt sounds like you already have a strong sense of these tools and their effectiveness (or not) in teaching and learning.
Zoe