Best Practices
Compare & Contrast Ideas
We know that students learn best when they are truly engaged in what they are learning, when they have the opportunity to explore, debate, discuss, examine, defend, and experiment with the concepts and skills they are ready to learn.
Give each student a small stack of sticky notes (5-10 notes, depending on how many responses you anticipate). Present students with a question related to the content. Questions with multiple correct answers or that ask for opinions or votes work well.
Students write one answer or response on each sticky note
Click the link for more ideas http://www.fortheteachers.org/instructional_strategies/#StickyNoteGraph
Digital DooDads
Google Sheets Super Quiz Add-on
Super Quiz adds brilliant functionality to a quiz made with Google Forms. By completing the quiz once with an answer key, all future submissions are automatically graded correct or incorrect. What’s more – you can get a break down of class understanding and a list of incorrect students for each question – perfect for intervention!
By filling out a few cells of information, you can also generate personalised differentiated written feedback emailed to students as soon as they submit a response. No need to monitor and ‘re-grade’ – just set-up and go!
Full Instructions here.
Google Classroom: List Docs Add-on
List Docs does what it sounds like it does: it gives you a list of all of the documents students have submitted through Google Classroom. It makes a spreadsheet — one sheet has a list of all of your Google Classroom folders, and the subsequent tabs list all of the documents students have turned in to each folder.
How to use it: Alice’s blog post (and tutorial video) outlines it in detail,
Directions: Open the template here: alicekeeler.com/showdocs. You’ll need to provide the folder ID for your Google Classroom folder (directions are in the link above). Run the add-on called “Show me all the docs” that’s already pre-loaded in the spreadsheet. It will create a spreadsheet with links to all of your docs.
Professional Resources
Control Alt Achieve
Eric Curts is a well known tech integrationist and writer. He has a great blog that showcases best practices with technology integration. He is an Authorized Google Education Trainer and a Google Certified Innovator, and has provided thousands of hours of training and consulting for schools and organizations all across Ohio and around the country for more than twenty years.
Visit Control Alt Achieve for more information.
Social Media – Who to Follow
Jimmy currently serves as a Senior Fellow for the International Center for Leadership in Education. He is the co-founder and CEO of ConnectEDD, an educational leadership company aimed at organizing world class professional learning conferences and professional development services for educators across the country.
Follow Jimmy on Twitter: @casas_jimmy
*Interested in getting started on Twitter? Contact your ITS!
Professional Development
Online Courses (can be taken asynchronously – at your pace):
Online:
- Flipgrid: 2/5/18-2/11/18 (ONLINE)
- The 4 C’s-Creativity, Communication, Critical Thinking and Collaboration: 2/5/18-3/9/18 (ONLINE)
- Formative Assessment Tools: 2/5/18-3/9/18 (ONLINE)
- Google G-Suite Tools for Secondary: 2/5/18-3/9/18 (ONLINE)
- Twitter #EdChats and Social Media: 2/5/18-3/9/18 (ONLINE)
- The Organized Educator: 2/12/18-2/25/18 (ONLINE)
- Edpuzzle: 2/19/18-3/5/18 (ONLINE)
- Flipped Classroom Part 1: 3/23-4/20 (ONLINE)
- Flipped Classroom Part 2: 3/23-4/20 (ONLINE)
Webinars: (Live presentation with a set time – virtual):
Face-to-face Sessions:
- SeeSaw Digital Student Portfolios: 2/19/18 at 3:45pm Driscoll MS
- Google Classroom: 2/26/18 at 3:45pm Driscoll MS
- SMART Labs pt. 2: 2/12/18 at 3:30pm (El Dorado ES)
TIP: you can always search for professional development opportunities offered by Instructional Technology by browsing the “Online/Web,” “Technology Services,” or “Webinar” categories in Eduphoria.