Link to Google Form

https://goo.gl/forms/NcEWnA9wiUVyDYsZ2

Which Add-On did you use? How did this Add-On help you assess your students?

In Forms, I used the “All Questions Required?” Add-on that allows me to not have to worry about checking “Required” after I make each questions...I only have to click one time at the end. This is a big time saver for me when making Forms quizzes in which I always require all questions to be answered.

In Sheets, with the answer document, I most often use Flubaroo. In addition to getting quickly graded answers for the Multiple Choice questions, I really love the visual cues for questions that are missed by a significant portion of the students. That really lets me know that it is either a poorly written question, or it is a topic that needs to be recovered. Either way, I get quick feedback which allows me to give the students quick feedback.

I was going to use SuperQuiz, however, when I went to set it up the first time, I realized that it takes a lot more time to set up than Flubaroo does, and there is not that much more useful information that I would gain from it. So, ultimately, I went with the quicker program that I am more familiar with.

Link to Digital Rubric:

Anne Frank Final Rubric

Rubric created with ThemeSpark. I would probably normally use the Doctopus/Goobric option; however, since I am not yet in school, I couldn’t use the Classroom Assignment “ingest” option, and I couldn’t find a good way to share the rubric without that. So, I gave ThemeSpark a try.

Link to formative assessments

• Post a link to a few of your formative assessments using your digital tool.
• If your assessments can not be linked to, provide a series of screenshots showing your assessments.

Use of new.goformative.com for an exit slip (made public and left open so that you can sign in and see it):

And an example of a short pre-quiz (again made public and left open:

Post a summary of how you used this formative assessment in your class and how it helped inform instruction.

I will be unable to use this tool with students until after this course ends (we have a very late start date this year). However, I can tell you how I believe this will help inform my instruction. Above, I’ve included two kinds of assessments that I plan to use.

1. Exit Slip

-I was intending to implement digital exit slips in my classroom this year, and had been looking at different websites to use for this purpose. Goformative.com seems perfect for my uses. I want to be able to post a question about the key concept for the day and then be able to see student responses to know if they are ready to move on, or if we need to linger on the topic for a bit longer (or even if a brief review would be sufficient or warranted). For the exit slips, live feedback is not as important because I would likely be reviewing these things after class. However, the multiple answering formats that are provided here give me ample choices for how to assess the students’ understanding. I especially like the “draw your answer” type of question. As an ELA teacher, I might not use this as often as a math teacher might, but the example above is the type of question that can be perfectly assessed through this tool.

      2. Brief Formative Assessment (pre-quiz)

          -While I usually use Google Forms for digital assessments (quizzes and tests),    

            goformative.com should be a good tool for me to use to implement shorter pre-quizzes

            during the instructional period that would allow me to have a more immediate picture of

            what my students are understanding. For this, the live feedback will be extremely

            Useful, as well as the multiple questions types. I have used Socrative in the past,

            specifically the “quick question” type to receive immediate feedback. However, the

            limitations of having to use only one question at a time, needing to manually activate

            the questions, and a lack of reporting or recording of answers makes me appreciate

            the feature that goformative.com has to offer (such as the Tracker). I look forward to

            the opportunity to use this with my students soon. I have added an example of this type

            of assessment above too.

Reflection of using technology for this assessment.  Your reflection should answer the following questions.

• Was there any benefit to using technology in this assessment?  Explain.
• Share any thoughts or reflections that the students had on using technology with this assessment.
• How did using technology change how you taught, monitored student progress, changed what you were learning in class, assessed or provided feedback for assignments, projects, quizzes, tests, or exit tickets.

Overall, I am very impressed with the goformative.com web tool. The primary benefit of using technology for this assessment was the ability to receive the students’ answers in a live format (and the ability for me to provide feedback for them live as well). Unfortunately, I will not be able to use this with students until after the course is over. However, based on my students’ reactions to other assessment tools I have used in the past (socrative, kahoot, etc) I know that they will love this. I am especially excited for the potential of the “draw your answer” question type. My middle school students are 1:1 Chromebooks and I believe this could literally be a game changer for how we interact during class time. (additionally, I cannot wait to show this tool to my math and science colleagues). Initially, I plan to immediately use this tool for exit slips in my class; however, I would like to use it for some short pre-quiz type formative assessments during the class day as well.

Link to your Digital Portfolio:

https://goo.gl/Uh0p4p

If you have one- link to your students digital portfolios:

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How can you use Digital Portfolios in your classroom? What do you need to think about when creating Digital Portfolios with students?

     In my classroom, digital portfolios could easily be used to showcase the students’ final published work. I like the idea of a public, digital home for student work. If my students know that their final writings will be able to be viewed on their Google Site, it would give them a real purpose and audience instead of just writing for their teacher.

     Before I implement Digital Portfolios in my class, there are several things I must consider. Primarily, I must decide on access to the portfolios. Obviously, student and teacher would have access, but I would also like to weigh the options of other students being able to see each other’s work, the students’ families being able to access the portfolios, and possibly open to the public. Giving the students an authentic audience could increase their seriousness about their work.

     In addition to collecting their final works, I would also want the Digital Portfolios to act as a way for the students to really reflect: both on their individual writings (products) and on their growth over time as writers. Because I generally have students for multiple years (6th-8th grades), this ability to reflect could be incredibly useful. I just have to make sure that the portfolios are designed in a way to maximize these objectives. This could potentially include additional writings, screencasts, or audio/video recordings detailing the process of producing their writings/projects.