| This video from Common Sense Media is a great resource for introducing students to and helping them understand their digital footprint. Check out this informative online flyer and this short blog post for additional information, links, and videos on this topic! Also, be sure to browse through a variety of Internet Safety resources on this website! |
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Last year, I assisted several teachers with using Google Forms for tests and quizzes. We used the Flubaroo Add-On to immediately grade the assessment and communicate results with students via email. Each teacher was blown away by the capability of these tools. Over the summer, as I was exploring the format of the new Google Forms, I noticed that it had an added quizzing feature for classroom use. I didn't have an opportunity to try it out, but wondered if it would eliminate the need for using the Flubaroo Add-On. Today, I stumbled upon a couple of blog post by Richard Byrne of Free Tech for Teachers that helped answer some of my questions. In July, he posted an article on Flubaroo Compared to the New Google Forms Auto-Grading Feature. By reading, I learned that the New Google Forms does make it easier than ever to turn forms into quizzes and automatically grade them without the use of a second party add-on. However, I also read that the features offered through Flubaroo are currently more robust. Richard Byrne also created several video tutorials highlighting some Flubaroo features that are often overlooked: printing grade reports for students and parents, accepting multiple correct responses, and enabling automatic grading and grade sharing. I've embedded these tutorial videos below. You might also be interested in how Flubaroo allows you to award extra or partial credit on quizzes. I would LOVE to help you and your team get started with using these tools with your students! If you're interested, please let me know so we can schedule a time!
Check out Richard Byrne's recent NCTIES presentation to discover a wealth of ed tech resources for teaching, learning, exploring, creating, managing, assessing, and collaborating.
Also, be sure to check out the Problem-Based Learning Spectrum from TeachThought for questions to guide your PBL planning. Related Articles:
According to Brenda Doucette of EdTechTeacher, this is how it works... The original PDF remains in your Drive and a new, converted document is created. You can open your new document and rename, edit, annotate, share, etc. just as you can do with any other Google Doc, Slides or Sheets. This works best with PDF documents that are clear and mostly text-based. Tables, images and formatted text can be a bit of a challenge for Google Docs (images and tables tend to end up on one page and text on a separate page), but I am sure it’ll get even better and easier in the next update.
Richard Byrne, from Free Tech for Teachers, highlights how to create video and audio slideshows using YouTube. All steps are covered in the video below. This resource would be excellent for students to use to share basic research they have conducted. This new, free educational app from the makers of Shadow Puppet allows students to easily create private learning journals. The journals can combine digital and physical work in one place and can be shared with parents. Real-time change notifications are sent to parents so they can see what their child has done at school. This would be a great tool for documentation and for parent conferences! Watch the video below for a short introduction, click here to learn more, and let me know if you need help getting started! |
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