The Middle School Math team is researching Schoology and how we can use it as a platform to organize everything digitally. We would like to use Schoology to organize a variety of activities, lessons, formative and summative assessments. The possibilities are endless and we are only beginning to understand the power of Schoology! We set up our classes, added all of us as administrators- now we are ready to go! This weekend, I was able to upload 2 activities for the students to do during class this week and our Rubrics for the Community Survey Project. I am not quite sure how to grade using the rubric online, but will figure it out!   BIG LEARNING CURVE- here we go!!!

My first Google classroom.

I created a google classroom. I uploaded drive documents from my lesson plans to guide discussion and created questions for my next unit pre-assessment--next week! I also created Socrative assessment for the lessons on character I am wrapping up this week. The Socrative assessment was lost due to reaching a "break point" and this was the exact error message.

App Application for class project on Thursday 10/22?2015

I played with the Adobe Voice app. I spent time learning some its tools and features.

Then I went about adding it to a unit my students are currently working on.  My enrichment class is working on a truss bridge construction project. Once they have completed their bridge they need to complete a technical report about their bridge. Now they will need to use Adobe Voice to create a story based around the prompts I have provided. Once this story is created they will imbed a link to it on their finished report.

Here is a link to a sample a made. If you click on the link under bridge presentation , it will open to my adobe voice story.

Al and I got some great curriculum work and planning accomplished today, brain storming great project ideas too!
here is a link to some of the work... 7th grade Global Studies and Citizenship

Socrative is a cool little tool

These quiz-like assessments could be engaging starters for kids.  I also like the potential of using the team response/race feature to bring readers who struggle with recall along with those who do not have that issue.

Curriculum!

Finally getting to collaborate on our new curriculum,
and brainstorming ways to use technology to further engage our students. 

Agenda 10-22-15

Formative Assessment Tools - Exploration

Back Channel Discussion - https://todaysmeet.com/HazenAssessment

REAL Framework Reflection Blog Post

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