This is a reminder that we will not be having a hangout tonight. I will see everyone next week. Please use this time to work in your groups and on your projects.
Our project was on ForallRubrics.com. For All Rubrics is a great site for teachers who have a a lot of students and need to be able to produce, track and analyze data for all of those students. Teachers can create rubrics or choose from rubrics that support the Common Core. The best part of the site is that it make the synthesis part of data collection easy. It is very easy to see whether a student is proficient or needs extra help by using the program. Also, not only can teachers use it to track student progress, but students can track their own learning on the website via email.
This sounds interesting. I like that you can use pre-made rubrics or create your own. This site would be great for us because we give a common mini assessment each month across our classes in each grade level. This would let us easily track the progress.
I will write about my individual project that I completed for this class. I ended up finding out more about Wiki Spaces. I compiled my work with Monica and Jody for the group project. I have never used a wiki in my classes and I was curious to investigate it further. It has some very cool features, especially now that there is Wiki Spaces Classroom. It is free, and it tracks student progress. It allows opportunity to create spaces for different projects, both group and individual. It's similar to Google Communities in that students can comment on each other's posts. You need to set up your classes by inviting students. The downfall of it is that a good amount of time would be needed to play around and find out all of its capabilities. I would say until I actually start using it for a class I won't know whether I would prefer Google Communities. I can share the Google presentation with anyone interested in seeing the whole project. Just give me your gmail account.
I like the idea of a Wiki for my classroom as having students blog is not a possibility. I'm not a super big fan of google communities so I would be willing to give that a shot.
Laurie Brandl, Carl Pastor and I worked together on a tutorial explaining how to use the online app ForAllRubrics. The tutorial is too large to upload in this comment. I will attempt to upload it in the next comment. If that doesn't work, I will post it in google+.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1k8isivBO35BKsaIWZ2ETABzpsRBBhSx1pqsqxOdL7iI/edit?usp=docslist_api Hopefully this link works.....I also shared the document with Steve in google docs
Our project was on ForallRubrics.com. For All Rubrics is a great site for teachers who have a a lot of students and need to be able to produce, track and analyze data for all of those students. Teachers can create rubrics or choose from rubrics that support the Common Core. The best part of the site is that it make the synthesis part of data collection easy. It is very easy to see whether a student is proficient or needs extra help by using the program. Also, not only can teachers use it to track student progress, but students can track their own learning on the website via email.
ReplyDeleteThis sounds interesting. I like that you can use pre-made rubrics or create your own. This site would be great for us because we give a common mini assessment each month across our classes in each grade level. This would let us easily track the progress.
DeleteChristel, the link to our tutorial is posted in my comment below. I think you will find it a useful tool.
DeleteChristel, the most cumbersome part is uploading rosters. Once you get the hang of it its easy, but it does seem to trip a lot of people up.
DeleteThank you! I will check it out.
DeleteI will write about my individual project that I completed for this class. I ended up finding out more about Wiki Spaces. I compiled my work with Monica and Jody for the group project. I have never used a wiki in my classes and I was curious to investigate it further. It has some very cool features, especially now that there is Wiki Spaces Classroom. It is free, and it tracks student progress. It allows opportunity to create spaces for different projects, both group and individual. It's similar to Google Communities in that students can comment on each other's posts. You need to set up your classes by inviting students. The downfall of it is that a good amount of time would be needed to play around and find out all of its capabilities. I would say until I actually start using it for a class I won't know whether I would prefer Google Communities. I can share the Google presentation with anyone interested in seeing the whole project. Just give me your gmail account.
ReplyDeleteI like the idea of a Wiki for my classroom as having students blog is not a possibility. I'm not a super big fan of google communities so I would be willing to give that a shot.
DeleteLaurie Brandl, Carl Pastor and I worked together on a tutorial explaining how to use the online app ForAllRubrics. The tutorial is too large to upload in this comment. I will attempt to upload it in the next comment. If that doesn't work, I will post it in google+.
ReplyDeletehttps://docs.google.com/document/d/1k8isivBO35BKsaIWZ2ETABzpsRBBhSx1pqsqxOdL7iI/edit?usp=docslist_api
ReplyDeleteHopefully this link works.....I also shared the document with Steve in google docs