Cloze Questions on myMitty, part 2

How to make your students' life easier with the Adaptive Mode

Didn't catch Cloze Questions on myMitty, part 1? Check it out here.

Digital Presentation Project

In my Rise of the Rise social studies elective, I do a digital presentation project. Students use iMovie or Doodlcast Pro on their iPads to create presentations and upload them to YouTube. For homework, they watch each others' videos. During the next class period, we have a scored discussion based on the content of the videos. This project combines cooperative group work, research and writing, technology integration, and the flipped classroom model. It provides an alternative to live student presentations. Feel free to use and adapt the resources below. Please contact me if you have questions.

Resources:

-Project overview and instructions: Word
-Rubric: Word
-Scored discussion follow up activity handout: Pages
-Student work sample
-Google Doc submission

Winter iPad Finals

Winter iPad Finals

Today the World Languages Department successfully had the most students ever take their final exams on the iPads: 20 classes with seven different levels!

There is front-end work involved: About two-three hours to type one final exam on myMitty, plus testing and editing.

But...here are the benefits:

1. Instant results that can be entered to Webgrade (No waiting for the scantron machine)
2. Not having to worry about making enough copies
3. No "Version A", or "Version B". You can have "Version infinity" (slight hyperbole) as multiple-choice answers are different for each student
4. Students get their score as soon as they press the "submit" button
5. Edits are easily made without having to make "errata"
6. No paper or scantron waste

Tests can use multiple-choice, cloze questions with drop down multiple choice or fill-in, short answer, matching, or true/false.

See Rose or Graham for more information about write myMitty tests.

Project Information Literacy: The Freshman Study

If you assign a research paper, I recommend taking a look at new study from Project Information Literacy called LEARNING THE ROPES: How Freshmen Conduct Course Research Once They Enter College. The researchers look at the challenges and skills gaps that college freshmen face across as they learn to do college-level research.

QR Code Workshop Video

Check out this video of my mini-workshop for teachers at Mitty. You may have seen a QR code (that square barcode) in magazines or on your cereal box, but did you know that anyone can create a QR code? In this workshop, I share how I use QR codes to design engaging class activities and get you started creating your own. All it takes is a QR Code generator (such as http://delivr.com/qr-code-generator), the URL of a website you'd like to share with your students, and the Scan app for your students' iPads (which is available in Self-Service).

Socrative: Best Practices

The Socrative app is useful for conducting a variety of activities using iPads. Several of our teachers use it for practice quizzes, exit tickets, and the ever-popular Space Race game.  You can import existing quizzes, create new ones, or simply ask students open-ended questions. There are a wide range of possibilities across disciplines.

Your students have the "Student" Socrative app available in Self Service. You can download the "Teacher" Socrative app via the App Store. Students and teachers can also access Socrative via Safari on a computer or iPad. Students simply visit m.socrative.com. Teachers visit socrative.com and click on Teacher Log In.

Here's a "best practices" video of Jennifer Salmon using Socrative in her Spanish classroom:

And here's an introductory video from Socrative's website:



If you're interested in using Socrative, please don't hesitate to ask for my assistance!