Assessment

Assessment: Measure What Matters  (Karen Cator Video) Goal: Our education system at all levels will leverage the power of technology to measure what matters and use assessment data for continuous improvement. media type="custom" key="10940736" align="center"

Students know the standards, skills and expectations

IXL (K-8 math skills practice)  Lexia (foundational reading skills)   Aleks (research-based math fact mastery program for multiplication, division, addition, and subtraction for grades 3 and up) Kahn Academy (to help you learn what you want, when you want, at your own pace.

Collecting Feedback KidGrid for the iPod/iPad is an easy tool used to keep track of students formative assessments Use Rubrics for assessment - RubiStar
 * Clickers, iPod and iPads* for assessment which involves students in their own learning during a class and focuses their attention on underlying concepts. Lectures are interspersed with conceptual questions, called //ConcepTests (Mazur)//authentic feedback - Listening to students discussion during or as part of the follow-up activity - tables of students can even record their conversation
 * The student can key in their answer and a central computer receives and records them.
 * The computer is usually set up to summarize and record the data, not only for the whole class but also for individual students. Some devices also allow a student to include an estimate of confidence in their answer.
 * A display of the results of the class as a whole is also provided, allowing both the instructor and the student to know what percent of the class picked each answer.
 * Recording Conversations media type="file" key="file0007.mp3" width="240" height="20"

*App is coming soon: @http://www.socrative.com/ Writing on Walls Wallwisher [|Preparing Students for Commenting with Wall Blogging]: Silvia Rosenthal Tolisano (Langwitches) Blog ** [|Linoit.com] -** Linoit defines itself as "...a free sticky & canvas service that requires nothing but a Web browser." [|**Stixy.com**]  - this has similar capabilities as the other products here. Play with this [|using an example]  from [|Talljim] .
 * [|Ways to use Wallwisher in the classroom]
 * [|Pindax.com] ** - Pindax.com bills itself as "...a fun real-time alternative to the traditional message board." Given Lisa's recommendation, I'm inclined to believe them!
 * [|EdiStorm.com] ** - describing itself as taking "...the metaphor of sticky notes on a boardroom wall and [bringing] it online allowing anyone - anywhere to brainstorm with only a web browser."
 * [|Skrbl.com] ** - says it enables one to "Sketch, text, share files, upload pictures all in one common shared space."
 * [|Spaaze.com] ** - Spaaze bills itself as a new visual way to organize pieces of a virtual infinite space. Hmm...it's in beta now but will soon start charging. No surprise there!