Catlin Tucker's 4Ps Framework: A Conferencing Strategy for Online, Blended, or Concurrent Classes

If you do student conferencing, I recommend you take a look at Catlin Tucker's
4Ps Framework: A Conferencing Strategy for Online, Blended, or Concurrent Classes.

Slido- Polls for Google Slides

https://youtu.be/j86dZLa4YJE

Slido is a new service that makes it easy to insert interactive quiz and poll questions into your Google Slides presentations. The free teacher account allows for 1 topic and 3 polls per event. Pricing.

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Feedback Tools

Recently Richard Byrne posted this list of 10 Tools for Gathering Real-time Feedback from Students. Some are easier to implement than others. Please let me know if you'd like help exploring any of them!

Tally.ly: Simple polls

tally.tl is a new-to-me website for conducting simple, quick polls with your students. Type in your question and possible answers then give the short URL to your students. Using BYOD they select the option they want and you get instant feedback!
Here's an example: tally.tl/Q45lj

Formative Assessment Apps & Tips

Common Sense Graphite put together this short list of apps and a few resources that are helpful for formative assessment in your classroom. They recommend these apps: Poll Everywhere, Socrative, Kahoot or Formative.

I also ran across this article from Ms. EdTechie listing many more formative assessment options.

If you would like to talk about any of these apps or other formative assessment options, please let me know!

The Role of Feedback

Another good article from 4 O'Clock Faculty, this time on The Role of Feedback. I recommend reading this article and reflecting on the role feedback plays in your classroom. Google Classroom makes it easier for teachers to give timely, directed, specific feedback as students are working. If you would like help exploring, please let Penney Matos know!

7 Strategies from Pixar to Incorporate into Your Classroom

Click here for 4 O'Clock Faculty's 7 Strategies from Pixar to Incorporate into Your Classroom. There is a link to a PDF of the poster and a link to their Become the Chief Education Officer (CEO) of your Classroom article. 

Answer Garden

AnswerGarden.ch is "a minimal tool for maximum feedback".

Set up your Answer Garden in seconds then receive feedback immediately.

Students can enter up to 40 characters. The results are displayed in a word cloud. The site is brows based so it's accessible from any device with Internet.

Using Google Drive to Improve Student Writing

Carroll ISD recently posted a blog entry on Using Google Drive to Improve Student Writing. It includes several tips and suggestions in addition to a list of helpful Google Docs Add-ons.

Check it out!

Delivering Peer Feedback with Google Forms

This from Google Education: Delivering Peer Feedback with Google Forms.