My GAME plan goals include creating a classroom website and proving my students with different assessment strategies involving technology tools.
After reading the responses from my colleagues in this course, I explored some of their suggestions in regards to my website goal. I found two major perks at onmycalendar.com. The first one is the calendar feature. Each student has a personal “What’s up” calendar that can be updated in one simple step. Also, the website can be used no matter what school I’m teaching at. This is something I did not consider until recently. If I’m taking the time and effort to create a great website, I want to be able to use the website when I change to a different school. I have decided to start a new website at the above site which brings me back to square one on my first goal. However, I have come to terms with my goals being long-term and am taking my time to create and implement them.
Allison,
ReplyDeleteI am so glad you are using onmycalendar. It really is a great user friendly website program. What do you think of it so far? Don't you find it kind of fun to play with? I do! Let me know if you need any help.
Katie V.
Response to Allison,
ReplyDeleteI think you are smart to create a website in a location that can be accessed from anywhere. As teachers we need to invest our time in a way that will pay us back the most. It would be a shame to have spent time building a site to have to rebuild it later somewhere's else.
I had never heard of the Activote, so I looked it up. Found out that it was a student response system. I just bought one for my classroom (a Qwizdom SRS) and it is great! You can use it for formative, and summative assessments. It has short answer capabilities as well, so students can actuall text short ansers to questions because it has a small LCD screen.
I plan to use mine at the moment for summative assessments until I can get a little more familiar with it, then I will use it for both formative and summative assessments. Why not? this machine will grade it for me as well.
Allison,
ReplyDeleteIt so nice to hear that you are finding website suggestions from other colleagues in our class that are useful to your GAME plan. When I find a great website, I always share it with my grade level at school. I think that it is so important to collaborate. It seems SD though your GAME plan is well on its way to being put in place!
Amy
Allison,
ReplyDeleteHave you previously used the ActiVotes in your classroom? I am excited about our district possibly getting them soon. I’m going to training in November given by Promethean to learn how to use and implement them into the classroom so that I will be able to better train the teachers. If you have already used them, what has worked well and do does it increase engagement within your lessons?
Allison,
ReplyDeleteI have not used the Activotes yet. It's frustrating but the technology department has yet to hook them up to our boards so we can use them. I was looking at many different options in my promethean software however, and you can choose things such as "allow students to change answers." I think it will increase engagement and I also think that because the students can't see each others answers, the unconfident students will be more willing to participate. In the past I have used individual marker boards in math and I always have one or two students who simply copy off of the other students' boards. It's unavoidable.
Allison