Minnesota eLearning Summit 2016 - Easy Formative Assessment Options For Mobile Learning

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Come experience quick online and app-based formative assessment and quizzing options on your iPad, Chromebook, or other mobile devices and learn how to engage your students and gauge their understanding of your lesson or class material. Session participants will learn about specific apps and online tools and how to repurpose other apps and online interactive tools to create collaborative learning opportunities that will allow you to gauge student learning on the spur of the moment or designed in advance and incorporated in a learning management system.

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Presentation

Easy formative assessment options for mobile learning from cturnbull

Traditional Quizzes
Kahoot
Create a game or copy one shared on the Kahoot site to check your students' knowledge and understanding in a fast-paced competitive manner.

• Create a game
• Play game

Google Forms
Build a quiz from scratch or tap into the new Google Forms templates available on Google Apps For Education accounts to quickly design a quiz that can be sent to students, linked from a website, or embedded.

Socrative
Use Socrative to build a quiz from scratch or import quizzes from colleagues.

Plickers
Plickers is a simple but powerful tool for collecting real-time formative assessment data without the need for student devices.
Free card sets

Poll Everywhere
Poll Everywhere allows you to turn any internet-enabled devices into a student response system.

Other Ways To Check For Understanding
Voxer
Voxer combines voice, text, photo and video sharing for real-time or asynchronous conversations.

Padlet
Padlet makes collaboration and idea sharing easy by allowing you to post text, links, images, and video.

Flipgrid
Flipgrid allows you to easily promote discussion and collaboration in and outside of the classroom walls.

DocentEDU
DocentEDU helps you to turn the internet into your lesson by helping you to add vocabulary support, questions, open-ended response, videos, and much more to webpages that complement and supplement the content of the courses you teach - all with just a few clicks!

VoiceThread
VoiceThread allows your students to join the conversation from anywhere and add their voice, thoughts, reflections, and doodles to the discussion.

EdPuzzle
EdPuzzle can be used to tap into the wealth of video content available on YouTube or created by you with the addition of questions and stops for reflection to ensure that students are tuned in and not missing out due to distractions.

Camera App - video
Don't forget that the camera app on mobile devices is a great way for students to capture a spur-of-the-moment or well-planned video reflection that can be easily submitted and give you insight into their understanding of your course content.

TIES2015 - Making Learning Visible With The iPad

Take a hands-on tour of a variety of free and low-cost screen casting and multimedia apps on the iPad that can be used to make instruction more visual and student learning more visible. Learn how to use these apps to engage students in content area learning to create standards-based artifacts of learning, improve teacher analysis of students' strengths and areas of need, extend learning beyond the classroom walls and school day bells, and support student and parent understanding of process and product expectations to raise achievement. 

Resources

Apps featured:

Educreations Interactive Whiteboard

50 MB storage

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/educreations-interactive-whiteboard/id478617061?mt=8

ShowMe Interactive Whiteboard

1 hour video storage - 1GB monthly bandwidth

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/showme-interactive-whiteboard/id445066279?mt=8

ScreenChomp

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/screenchomp/id442415881?mt=8

Skitch

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/skitch-snap.-mark-up.-send./id490505997?mt=8

Adobe Voice

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/adobe-voice-show-your-story/id852555131?mt=8

Paper  by FiftyThree

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/paper-by-fiftythree/id506003812?mt=8

Book Creator Free

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/book-creator-free/id661166101?mt=8

Book Creator

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/book-creator-for-ipad-create/id442378070?mt=8

TouchCast Studio

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/touchcast-studio-annotate/id603258418?mt=8

Examples:

Educreations

Ocean Floor - Techtonic Plates

 https://www.educreations.com/lesson/view/ocean-floor/630835/

2nd Grade Perimeter Estimation

https://www.educreations.com/lesson/view/grade-2-student-b/8883110/

Lesson Search - https://www.educreations.com/browse/

ShowMe

Drawing An Eye

http://www.showme.com/sh/?h=FC2JwTA

Max's Fish Measuring

http://www.showme.com/sh/?h=aMXSOoK

Screen Chomp

Chemistry

http://www.screenchomp.com/t/jdB6mFODMHx7

Converting to Decimals

http://www.screenchomp.com/t/LCRBKPKr1Z

Skitch

Features of a Journal Entry

 http://5tanfieldlea.weebly.com/uploads/7/9/1/2/7912840/4446148_orig.jpg

Parts of an Insect

https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/236x/3d/5d/f4/3d5df419677d2bc17ab884e6d3047971.jpg

Adobe Voice

Text and Bullying

http://voice.adobe.com/v/9AVYDLhmwss

Paper by FiftyThree

Multiple Intelligences

https://wjuedtech.files.wordpress.com/2014/09/evernote-snapshot-20140918-101047.jpg

Statistics - Normal Distribution

http://www.thegraphicrecorder.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/Student-Sketchnotes-2.jpg

3rd Grade Rainforest

https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcQhWgRld4_9DxQf7QmfsRFbnN_GCFluzyDGPbcU3p8Ex_XCTAMoGLgla9TfeGKtenLZIlVxJuuSp34WGjgdfquxh7P2aeisTi7bZRgnV88zNUluJkjl5aO3nGS8s5L_z3v8exjq_ROE8/s1600/Sketchnotes+Rainforest+1.png

Book Creator

Space - Saved as a video

Math Class Books

http://www.mathycathy.com/blog/2014/05/students-use-book-creator-to-author-mathematics-part-2/

TouchCast

Gregor Mendell

Radium

Book Creator for iPad App Giveaway

 Click the link below to enter your name into a drawing for a Book Creator for iPad iOS app license.

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1cDgXt4aFUTk5x2VrFTsNA-OJ7ofanTxVrtx0aGkIJ6I/viewform

ISTE2015 Speaker

Proposal selections for ISTE2015 were announced today, and I'm honored to be able to say that I will be a speaker at the next ISTE conference in Philadelphia this June.

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In fact, I received a triple honor of having three proposals selected and a fourth selected but on a waiting list for now!

I will be presenting on:

• 30 Plus Ways To Use Your iPad For Personalized Professional Development
• Bridging The Digital Divide With A Racial Equity Lens

I will also be doing a three hour workshop on:

• Publishing Amazing Interactive Books With iBooks Author

The fourth session that is currently waitlisted until space becomes available is a BYOD session:

• Easy Formative Assessment Options For Mobile Devices

Minnesota eLearning Summit Presentation - Easy Formative Assessment Options For Mobile Devices

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My first presentation at the Minnesota eLearning Summit is on Wednesday, July 30. The topic of the presentation is easy formative assessment options for mobile devices.

Participants in this session will experience quick online and app-based formative assessment and quizzing options on your iPad, Chromebook, or other mobile devices and learn how to engage your students and gauge their understanding of your lesson.

Session participants will learn about specific apps and online tools and how to repurpose other apps and online interactive tools to create collaborative learning opportunities that will allow you to gauge student learning on the spur of the moment.

Crowd Sourcing:
What apps and websites are you using for formative assessment in your classroom? Please take this quick survey

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Resources for this session:

Flipgrid - This is a fun app and web-based tool that allows you to pose questions for your students to respond to by recording a video response. 
Try it out - Click here to contribute to a Flipgrid
21 day free trial and then a fee
More information - http://flipgrid.com/info/
iOS app - https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/flipgrid./id756972930?mt=8
Video tutorial

Geddit - This website and app-based tool allows students to indicate their confidence level in terms of understanding content material as well as responding to quiz questions.
More information - http://letsgeddit.com
Resources - http://letsgeddit.com/public/articles/teacher-resources
Video tutorial

Google Forms - Free tool available from Google through the web or as an iOS app.
More Information - https://support.google.com/docs/answer/87809?hl=en
Video tutorial -

Kahoot - One of my colleagues jokingly refers to this student response system as being similar to bar trivia without the alcohol. Kahoot is website-based, but you can create a web clip icon on your iPad that links to the website and looks like an app icon.
More information - Sign up for a free account here - https://getkahoot.com
Link to website for students to join your quiz - https://kahoot.it/#/
Video tutorial - Creating A Kahoot  and Playing Kahoot
Quick Guide - https://getkahoot.com/tutorials/Kahoot_Tutorials.pdf

Plickers - Do you have just one iPad or Android device? This app/application lets you use your phone, iPad, Android device to scan paper cards that students hold up in one of four directions to indicate their multiple choice answer response.
More information - https://www.plickers.com
Plickers App for iOS
Video tutorial

Socrative - This tool is both web-based and an app. The teacher can create a quiz in advance and then gather and export student performance data.
More information - http://www.socrative.com
iOS Teacher app
iOS Student app
Video Tutorials - https://www.youtube.com/user/SocrativeVideos/videos
Creating a Quiz and Running a Quiz
User Guide - http://www.socrative.com/materials/SocrativeUserGuide.pdf

Voxer Walkie Talkie - This fun walkie talkie push and talk app can be used in many ways to gather quick and authentic performance data from students.
More information -http://voxer.com
iOS app - https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/voxer-walkie-talkie-ptt/id377304531?mt=8
Video tutorial and Overview

Minnesota eLearning Summit Presentations - Easy Formative Assessment on Mobile Devices

I started thinking about my presentations for the Minnesota eLearning Summit today and the connections between formative assessment tools and Universal Design for Learning (UDL).

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Ensuring that classroom assessments are set up to ensure that no student's performance is hindered due to the design or format of the assessment itself is critical.

There are many iPad apps that make formative assessment easy for the teacher and very accessible for students.  I will be talking about how to successfully use the iPad for formative assessment with students and will be demonstrating a few apps that make it easy for teachers to gauge students' content understanding at the upcoming Minnesota eLearning Summit at the end of July.