April+18th,+2011+Formative+Assessment

**Today's Relevance Objective:** **What are they thinking (and do I really want to know)? **  media type="custom" key="9128266"
 * Strategies and Tools for Formative Assessment **

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 * **Task** || **Technique Modeled** || **Variations** ||  ||
 * What is Formative Assessment? || **Pair Share-**-students "turn and talk" with their neighbor, then work together to compose a single sentence statement to answer a prompt. || "think-pair-share"; "think-write-pair-share" ||  ||
 * How many times do you use this in the course of one class period? || **Responders** --using [|www.pollanywhere.com], students can use their cell phones or a website to respond to quick classroom polls. Although this method does not allow you to see individual responses, it can help you gauge a class as a whole. Responders assigned to individual users can give you more specific, individualized feedback.

media type="custom" key="9130668" || Turningpoint, ActiveExpressions, Ipods ||  || =Tech Tools For Formative Assessment = **Voicethread-**-an online tool that will allow students to respond to images, video and text in a collaborative, multimedia discussion.
 * Formative vs. Summative literacy based activity #1 || **Closed Word Sort**- students are given a group of words cut individually into strips or on a whiteboard, then asked to sort them according to a given topic. This can be done individually, with a partner or in small groups. Students are then asked to explain their choices to the class. || Have some students work on a whiteboard to do this in front of the room. ||  ||
 * Content specific literacy based activity #2 || **3X3 Open Word Sort-** students arrange words from a given list in a 3 x 3 table, then are asked to write sentences using three words down, across, etc. In an "open" word sort, students are not given specific categories for arranging or organizing the words. || Whiteboard, Stixy, Voicethread, Discussion board post, Google Doc, etc. ||  ||
 * Content specific literacy based activity #3 || **Dump and Clump Open Word Sort-**-Small groups brainstorm on a list of words associated with a given topic (dump) then group the words into categories and give each category a heading (clump). || Whiteboard, Voicethread, discussion board, google doc, etc. ||  ||
 * Content specific literacy based activity #4 || **Frayer Model-** Students ||  ||   ||
 * How might you apply one of these strategies or tools to your specific content and classroom? || **Exit Ticket--**During the final minutes of class, students are asked to respond to a question or to make a statement about what they learned. || Wiki-discussion post, Linoit, Google form, 3-2-1 Exit Slips. ||  ||
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**[|Crocodocs]/Classroom Salon:**These tools are great for checking and enhancing content literacy. They allow you to upoad any text and have students highlight and make comments on the text.
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**[|Linoit] and [|Stixy]-**both of these tools allow you to create instant online "post-it" boards where students can post their thoughts to a discussion prompt, picture, video or any document.
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">Try Lino It it here: []
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">Try Stixy here: []

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">**[|Google Docs-]** Allows for real-time collaborative editing on word documents, powerpoints and spreadsheets. Allows the teacher to make comments.
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">[|example: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1_LQ5HrIneB8yUC-LQ6iSuh3I_WY8-b_Hn6IsJsvSLGE/edit?hl=en#]
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">Try it yourself..sign in with your own gmail or use the following
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">name: htsdteacher
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">password: talbots1

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">**[|Google Forms]-** create online surveys, questionnaires, and quizzes and easily manage results.
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">example
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">let's create one now

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">[|Titan Pad-]This is a collaborative writing tool that allows up to five users to work together on a single document. The work is viewable by web access which gives the teacher the ability to "peek" in on the process.
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">[|example]
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">try it!

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">**[|Quizlet]**-Create flash cards and interactive quizzes for students. They could take a screenshot of their results and print it out, or mail it to you.
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">example : []

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">**Blogs**--students create a personal online journal/log to reflect on class activities, assigned readings, current events and other relevance connections.
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">www.wordpress.com
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">www.edublogs.org

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">**Wiki Discussion Boards-**These provide a great window into individual thinking and can be used to host a class discussion, comment on group work, ask homework questions, etc.
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">www.wikispaces.com