If you'd like to discover or improve some tech skills to integrate into your curriculum or workflow, check out the tech trainings below. We'll cover easy ways to grade with Google Apps, online video editors for classroom movie-making and other creative tools for students, improving workflow and reducing paper, and blogging with students. Please use the form below to sign up for one or more.
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Wednesday, January 21, 2015
Thursday, January 15, 2015
Grading assessments using Google Apps add-ons
One of the challenges of using technology for more formal and informal assessments is managing the grading portion. Even for quick form-driven assessment, grading can be difficult, and giving more meaningful, in-depth feedback can be extremely time-consuming.
Flubaroo is a Google Forms add-on that allows you to automatically grade Google Forms submissions, as either a formative or summative assessment. To get Flubaroo, go to a Google Form, click on add-ons and then go to "get add-ons". Once added, you'll go to add-ons to select and enable it for any form. When you are ready to grade, go to the form's "responses" spreadsheet. Then you can choose "grade assignment" to let Flubaroo work its magic.
You'll select a points value for each of the questions and an "answer key" which is usually the test that you take yourself.
Flubaroo will generate a second tab in the spreadsheet that lists each student's name, contact info, grade received and questions missed. You can even email grades to the students automatically. Pretty quick and easy! Several Homestead teachers are already using Flubaroo for grading Google Forms-based assessments.
For more involved feedback, as with essays and written work, there's Kaizena. Kaizena allows you to give verbal or written feedback on shared documents, grade some or all of student work using a rubric system and link to resources for students that need to re-learn or reinforce key concepts.
Kaizena is automatically enabled for our district; all you have to do is log in. You can create boxes for individual classes or assignments, and students can request feedback by sharing their documents with these boxes. I've included a short tutorial here:
Some teachers here are already using this very effectively. We'll be doing some Kaizena trainings later this year; let me know if you are interested!
Flubaroo is a Google Forms add-on that allows you to automatically grade Google Forms submissions, as either a formative or summative assessment. To get Flubaroo, go to a Google Form, click on add-ons and then go to "get add-ons". Once added, you'll go to add-ons to select and enable it for any form. When you are ready to grade, go to the form's "responses" spreadsheet. Then you can choose "grade assignment" to let Flubaroo work its magic.
You'll select a points value for each of the questions and an "answer key" which is usually the test that you take yourself.
Flubaroo will generate a second tab in the spreadsheet that lists each student's name, contact info, grade received and questions missed. You can even email grades to the students automatically. Pretty quick and easy! Several Homestead teachers are already using Flubaroo for grading Google Forms-based assessments.
For more involved feedback, as with essays and written work, there's Kaizena. Kaizena allows you to give verbal or written feedback on shared documents, grade some or all of student work using a rubric system and link to resources for students that need to re-learn or reinforce key concepts.
Kaizena is automatically enabled for our district; all you have to do is log in. You can create boxes for individual classes or assignments, and students can request feedback by sharing their documents with these boxes. I've included a short tutorial here:
Some teachers here are already using this very effectively. We'll be doing some Kaizena trainings later this year; let me know if you are interested!
Tuesday, January 6, 2015
Using Google Forms to create online flashcards and quiz games!
Flippity is a Google Form template and web-based tool that allows you or your students to easily create online flashcards and Jeopardy-style quiz games. By downloading the template and inputting or copying and pasting your own information, you can
Here's an example of flashcards:
and of the Jeopardy game (you can name the teams, increase the number to 5, or decrease to 1, and keep score if you wish).
Get the templates at http://www.flippity.net/
Here's an example of flashcards:
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