Station Stop #8

Hold on folks we are rounding the final corner of this ride!!

This week in ICT we looked at a variety of useful apps. One great example is evernote. It allows you to make recordings of yourself talking or a teacher. It also will dictate what you are saying and allow you to edit for any mistakes it may make. The best part is that you can organize all your notes for your classes on it and they can be accessed on any device that has the evernote app!

Most of this week was spent on our final group projects. My group did a presentation on Socrative! It is a great tool that you can use for assessing your students understanding in all topics. It allows you to create a teacher account and you are given a classroom number. From there you can give your students the classroom number and get them to do quizzes you made or ones that were shared. It is really cool because it is not an app, so your students just need to be able to access the internet. This can be done on school computers or even a cell phone.

In socrative you can create just the normal quiz, with multiple choice, true and false and short answer questions. You can also make what is called a space race!! This cool option splits the students up into however many teams you would like and then they can do the quiz as fast as they can to reach the end of the race track by answering questions correctly. One last option you have is called an exit slip. It is a premade quiz that just asks the students if they learned the material? what they learned? and can they answer the question you have made up on the board?. This type of quiz is great for formative assessment.