Assessment
Collaboration
Differentiation
Engagement
Potpourri
100
This free online tool, allows students to make and/or view sets of flashcards and study them in a variety of ways.
What is Quizlet?
100
This is a service that allows you to share and collaborate on documents, spreadsheets, and presentations. Sharing is as easy as sending an e-mail.
What is Google Docs?
100
This feature of Moodle lets you assign work to certain students only.
What is Groups/Groupings?
100
Having students teach a lesson is one way to increase student interest in a topic. Name one tool that students could use to create a presentation for teaching a lesson.
What is SMART Notebook/Open Office/GoogleDocs/others?
100
A windows 7 application that allows you to create electronic sticky notes directly on your Windows desktop.
What are Sticky Notes?
200
This type of assessment is used to monitor students during the learning process and provide teachers with feedback to alter instruction as necessary.
What is formative assessment?
200
This is a web tool that allows students to work together to create mind maps, visual outlines, or space to brainstorm for projects. Images, links, and text can be inserted in the space.
What is Popplet?
200
This is a readiness differentiation strategy in which upon finishing a lesson, in the last five minutes of class, you ask students a question about what was talked about that day. Students can write an answer, bullet a list, draw, or solve a problem. You then see where students are and what you need to do to get them on the same page.
What are exit cards/ticket out the door?
200
Asking questions is a great way to keep students on task. Name one Moodle tool that allows you to ask students questions.
What is Choice/Quiz/Chat/Forum?
200
Name a tool that allows you to capture an area of your screen.
What are Snipping Tool, SMART Capture, Print Screen?
300
This Moodle activity allows students to privately share files and/or text with you for performance based assessments.
What is Assignment?
300
This is a Moodle activity can be setup to allow students to collaborate on a shared page that the entire class can view
What is a Wiki?
300
This is a scale you can use to differentiate your content for students based on increasingly complex levels of understanding.
What is Bloom’s Taxonomy?
300
Nonlinguistic representations, videos, simulations are great ways to keeps students engaged. This free web tool lets students create short (30 second) videos using images, video clips, text and music.
What is animoto?
300
An approach to teaching that helps “students become learners who can learn for themselves and by themselves”.
What is Flipped Classroom?
400
This is a powerful online assessment tool that allows you to gather and grade student responses to pre made or “one the fly” questions.
What is Infuse Learning/Socrative?
400
This Moodle resource can be used to collect student entries (i.e. definitions, concepts, etc.) in one area that entire class can view. Entries are sorted alphabetically for easy navigation.
What is a Glossary?
400
When differentiating instruction by readiness, this is the group you should plan for first.
What is the top group?
400
These visual tools allow students to think through complex issues, organize thoughts, determine relationships, and plan projects.
What are graphic organizers/concept maps?
400
A type of matrix barcode used to provide quick access to content and websites.
What is a QR Code?
500
This Moodle activity allows students to add, to a public repository, entries containing a variety of information including text, files, links, and images.
What is Database?
500
This is a form of lecturing incorporates visual elements, two-way communication between teachers and students, and lessons posted online. The end result of such a lecture is a new learning “whole” that is greater than the sum of its parts.
What is a collaborative lecture?
500
This is a way to differentiate a lesson for students when a unit is not particularly appealing to them.
What is by interest?
500
In this teaching/learning approach students go through an extended process of inquiry in response to a complex question, problem, or challenge. Rigorous projects help students learn key academic content and practice 21st Century Skills (such as collaboration, communication & critical thinking)
What is Project-Based Learning?
500
A cool web tool or app for creating a screencast that records the visual and audio components of a “whiteboard” lesson that can be shared online.
What is Educreations?
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