Apps to Help with Teaching and Assessing
Apps make formative assessment more streamline and efficient. They allow teachers to better collect a "photo album" of a child's learning rather than a "snapshot," as Tomlinson and McTighe suggest, to better engage in progress monitoring.
Below are some apps to help in that process.
Use the Jigsaw method to learn about
your assigned app with others.
Use this evaluation tool to record your consensus analysis (download a copy to record).
Then meet back in your original team
to share your analysis with your teammates.
Discuss and record each other's analyses.
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2) Mastery Assess - Teachers can easily track student mastery of standards with Mastery Assess's features. As a collaborative tool, Mastery Assess allows teachers to create and share common assessments and have them graded by the app. This data can then be used to create differentiated groups to better guide instruction Resources that align to standards and support individual learners can be saved in a student playlist.
3) Lesson Plan Manager - Tool to create and deliver lessons and then report to students and colleagues.
4) Basecamp - Project management tool for organizing to-do lists, discussions and reading of documents. You need an account to use it, but it is free for teachers.
5) Presentation Next - Create dynamic and engaging presentations.
1) Movie Edit Touch 2 - Use videos, photos, and music to easily construct creative videos.
2) Annotate101 - Annotation tool for close reading of ebooks and PDF files.
3) Splashtop Personal - Turn your mobile device into an interactive whiteboard to remotely access and annotate your desktop. Focus students on particular components of your lesson.
4) Skitch - Annotation tool that allows you to highlight and mark up anything you like and send it to others or yourself.
5) Evernote - Create and organize notes for efficiency and share them for collaboration.