A cloud-based website which allows its users to meet virtually. This app also has other apps within it, like IT Brain and Airbackup, which help with security of the TeamViewer experience. This application can help students with group projects. It can also allow them to meet and discuss their project from their own homes, so that they don't have to take any time to stay after school.
A website which creates virtual scenarios for students to analyze and comprehend. Uses strategic tools like video-based scenarios, tracking, and reporting, as well as the ability to redownload scenarios so that web-connection is not needed. This application seems very useful for students wanting to go into technical or business fields. By using artificial scenarios in an assessment setting, students can be better prepared for the real world.
Presentation-creating software focused on making a simple and easy way to tell stories. Includes features for individuals and businesses, as well as educators and students. Students are going to have to use and make presentations for the rest of their lives, regardless of the field into which they will go. This tool is something students can use in the business world after their education. This is a fun alternative to using apps like PowerPoint or Google Slides when creating presentations for formative and summative assessments alike.
An application that uses fun and science-based ways to teach language to language learners. This app uses online games as a way to help users learn and want to keep learning. Aside from the obvious use of using this app to teach students new languages, it can also be used when discussing different languages in English literature, as well as assessing students who are English Language Learners. Knowing at least some phrases from other languages can help students appreciate diversity.
A website which offers a variety of courses on business skills. Some of these skills include photography and web design, which can both be utilized in performance-based assessments. These courses are taught and put together by actual, certified teachers. This can also be helpful for students to prepare for the business world after High School graduation, or for college. LinkedIn is becoming a vital resource, and this website is a partner with LinkedIn. This app can help students who are going right from High School into the working world, as well as for gifted students.
A website which utilizes e learning and interactive responses. Allows educators to create easy, student-user-friendly mobile quizzes and other assignments. This tool could be utilized to give students feedback on assignments even while not in the classroom. This tool can save teachers from being bombarded with emails and having too many questions about assignments in class.
Renaissance Place is known for their extensive collection of "Accelerated Reader" book lists. Almost any child, middle grade, and YA book has a profile on this site, and accompanying each book are comprehension exams for that book. Each exam comes with a certain amount of Accelerated Reader or AR points, which adds an element of self-competition—where students can aim to perform better and gain more AR points than they had previously.
Class Dojo is a web application that can be useful for informal assessments. In this application, students are assigned a "monster" icon, and every student's icon is displayed on a Smart Board or projector. If a student answers questions correctly or behaves well, their monster is moved up in the dojo. If they misbehave or do not perform well, their icon is moved downward in the dojo. This can be a fun way to make review games competitive, and can be fun for classroom informal assessments.
Google classroom is perhaps one of the most widely used and known classroom web applications on the internet. It takes a G Suite organization—which is an email system used by schools with Google Drive & Gmail—and allows students and teachers to share presentations, worksheets, calendars, etc. with one another. Teachers can send lectures and assignments, and students are able to keep all of their class work in one place. Within Google Classroom, Google Forms are a great way to make formal and informal assessments alike online. There are options so that students can submit one response or multiple responses, and options to assign points to certain questions as well as automatically submit all of the data into statistics charts and tables.
Socrative is an assessment application built for teachers for Formative assessments. It allows students to participate on any mobile device, from computers to laptops to ipads and even cell phones. It provides student answers on the teacher's dashboard in real time, and allows multiple options for assessment types, including quizzes, multiple choice, true/false, short answer, exit slips, or "space race" which is a game-style assessment. There are options to create-your-own assessments, and options to share assessments with colleagues and other users on Socrative in a safe, user-friendly social media style of creating and sharing assessments.
Poll Everywhere is a live-streaming poling service that can be incredibly useful for informal assessments. Responses to the poll can be shown in real time so that the teachers and students alike can see where they line up. There are also options for data collection and demonstration, and options to discuss after the poll has been taken—as responses can be put on the board in word-art form. This is a simple, user-friendly, and free service for teachers to utilize in their classrooms.
This application is a very fun way for students to create artistic performance-based assessments. It allows students to create their own story board with visuals, and allows their storyboards to be shared with peers and instructors. This is especially helpful in an English Language Arts classroom, since the study of literature is one of our primary focuses. A lot of students may have trouble visualizing complex texts, so this application can be an alternative way to demonstrate understanding of a story through art and images. There are also pre-made story boards for teachers to show their classes before, during, or after reading a text.
Kahoot! is a fun game-style way to informally assess students. Teachers can create quizzes, students can create usernames unique to each quiz, and then they can compete for points on the most correct answers. In my own experience in high school, everyone loved playing a Kahoot! regardless of the content area. It could be the content area we hated the most, but when the Kahoot! came out, everyone played whole-heartedly. Not only is this app effective, but the competitive nature motivates students to succeed.
Survey Monkey is a free survey creation site. It can be helpful for classroom disposition assessments (i.e. likert scales, etc.) as well as providing another platform for distributing assessments. In the upper grades, students may be assessed by the creation of a research paper, especially in an English Language Arts classroom. In the past, students have used Survey Monkey in order to collect their own data for their projects. This app is a great way to introduce students to the world of collecting their own research data, a skill they will surely appreciate upon graduating from high school.
This app is called Twtpoll, which is also a survey creation cite. The difference with these surveys, though, is that they are compatible with all social media platforms. Social media is a very prevalent, ever-growing phenomenon that most if not all of our students partake in. If teachers can utilize social media in presentations and projects, what may have seemed problematic can now become an asset to the classroom.
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the North Western Education Association is responsible for the widely used MAP testing, which is used to track student performance in Math and Reading across grade levels K-12. Additionally, this application has created standards-based quiz questions available to teachers in order to prep students for standardized testing. This app also tracks student growth across the years, easily showing teachers which areas the students need help with, and which areas they excel in.
Nearpod is not only another way to virtually distribute quizzes and assessments, but teachers can also create virtual lessons for students to view in the classroom and at home. It also allows teachers to interact with students in order to share information, and collects data from student assessments. This app is also very compatible with all kinds of technological devices, making it a versatile and easy to use web program.
Videos online have become a really prevalent concept in education, as there are a lot of multimedia outlets that have a lot of information to share. The problem is though, how can teachers be sure that their students are actually viewing and comprehending this material? This web application allows teachers to create lessons using videos. They can upload a video and then insert comprehension questions right into the video file so that students can be sure to pay attention to any kind of multimedia viewing they may need to partake in.
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This is a free app which allows teachers to create and send quizzes to students to take both in-school and at home. The benefit of this app is that students can take these quizzes at their own pace, in order to genuinely demonstrate knowledge rather than demonstrate quickness when assessing. While demonstrating quickness is important to prepare for standardized tests, demonstrating knowledge on one's own pace is also important, as long as both are used in mediation! By implementing different assessment styles, students can be better prepared for any kind of assessment that may come their way in the future.