Connecting Assignments from Other Sites in Schoology
The question has come up about connecting assignments from other sites, like Great Minds, iLearn (Moodle), and Seesaw, into Schoology. You definitely can do this.
The Highly-Versatile, Differentiable, Embedded Assessment-Capable, Student-Paced Moodle Lesson Module
[Read time: 2 min] Lessons using the Moodle Lesson module can range from a very simple, linear progression of pages, to a more complex, branched pathway in which students can opt for different pathways, like the “Choose Your Own Adventure” books of yore. Lessons are self-paced and student-driven. Pages can deliver content (textual, audio, video, or a combination), or they can present students with a question that must be answered. Furthermore, students can be directed to specific pages (such as back to the previous page to look for the answer in the case of an incorrect response) based on the answer given. And, they’re easy to create.
Peer Assessment of the Video Kind
As we’ve posed many times before, the Workshop is one of the best ways to allow students to peer assess with some accountability. Now, Ms. Cheryl Airgood, American Sign Language teacher at Dearborn High, has taken the Workshop to a new level with video. [Read time: 1 min]
Multiple-Misconceptions
Assessments, just like anything else that happens in our classrooms, are learning experiences. But the way we administer them may cause students to learn false information. [Read time: 2 min]
Happenings at Haigh
My last Technology Integration Partnership, or TIP, occurred at Haigh. Teachers Anne Joachim (3rd grade) and Erika Izbicki (4th grade) very graciously agreed to share their classrooms with me so that we could work together to infuse their classes with some new technology integration. Since both teachers are tech-savvy to begin with, we dove right…
Feedback is Not an Option…
…it’s an imperative. If you’ve paid even scant attention to any of the educational research conducted over the last 30 years, you are aware that giving students specific, timely, actionable feedback has the most significant impact on student learning of any strategy known to humankind.
Effective Peer Assessment that Transcends Technology
[et_pb_section bb_built=”1″ admin_label=”section”][et_pb_row admin_label=”row”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text”] Over the past two years, several teachers in Dearborn have been integrating technology to help their students engage in effective peer- and self-assessment. Utilizing the Moodle Workshop module, students have assessed their own work and that of their peers with accountability–accountability for their own work, as well as for their assessment…
Demolition Crew
Teachers across our district work tirelessly to crush barriers to student learning. Armed with a desire to do whatever it takes, many rightly equip themselves with a tool set that includes technology in order to make themselves extremely effective at demolishing walls to student achievement. Moodle is Multilingual One barrier that is being dismantled is that of language. Teachers,…
Glue, Glitter, and Gold (Part 2)
As I mentioned in Part 1, we can spend a lot of time adding things on to our lessons that make them shine…at least for a while. It’s often just glitter. Here today, gone tomorrow–along with all of the time we spent putting it together and learning how it all worked. This is no less true…
Digital Alternatives to Reading Logs
We All Make Mistakes I recently read an article published on Shaelynn Farnsworth’s blog, entitled 6 Alternatives to Reading Logs. It piqued my interest because I remember assigning reading logs in my classroom, and how that plan didn’t always work out so well. When I assigned reading logs in my classroom, I found out a…
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