Websites and Apps for Differentiation and Assessment

1. Differentiation and Assessment
Made Easier Online

2. http://www.theworldofwallace.yolasite.co
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3. Mark Wallace
Spanish/French teacher OSMS
Adjunct Professor University of
New Haven
• Strategies for Teaching
Modern World Languages
• Theories of Second Language
Acquisition
I use technology mostly to reach
students, to stay current, and to
save time
Quick
Introductions
 Who are you?
 Where and what do you
teach?
 Why do you use
technology?(first reasons
that come to mind)

4.  Please take a moment to chat with a neighbor
What do you want to take away from
this session?

5.  8:35-9:15
 Introduction
 Pedagogy
 Genius Scan
 Zip Grade
 Vocaroo
 9:15-9:20
 Break and questions
 9:20-10:10
 Kidblog
 Edmodo
 Aurasma and and other augmented reality
 Other related educational technology resources (if time)
 10:10-10:30
 Hands-on time/collaboration/questions/create accounts
 10:30-10:35
 Wrap-up and reflect
Session agenda
(subject to change based on effectiveness of coffee)

6. But there is hardly enough time for
what we already do!

7. Let’s make the computers do the
menial tasks…

8. …so we can focus on the magic!

9.  Scan student work for assessment
 Save time correcting formative assessments and spend
more time planning instructional activities
 Save time correcting multiple choice, matching, and fill-in-
the-blank and spend more time on feedback for
performance and proficiency tasks
 Give students immediate feedback on certain assessment
items
 Run instant item analysis for student comprehension and
item reliability and validity
 Keep all student work and feedback in one place (exec.
func.)
 Use voice recordings to assess orally and simultaneously
How can websites and apps help us assess?

10.  Use immediate data to make grouping and activity
decisions on the fly
 Modify or support students with various versions of
activities and assessments
 Create online dialogue journals as a mode of
differentiation
 Add video and audio supports on assignments
 Scan resources as PDF and send to students
How can websites and apps can help us differentiate?

11.  Constructivist learning
 Relevance
 Differentiation
 Meaningful feedback
 Multimodal (pictures, audio, video, etc.)
 Archive learning for reflection by teachers and
students
 Organized, searchable, shareable
 21st century skills - Consuming and producing
information, research, organization and synthesis of
ideas
Pedagogy Behind Educational
Technology

12.  Dropbox or other cloud storage
 Your own teacher website
 Zip Grade
 Genius Scan or other PDF scanner for the phone or
tablet
 Vocaroo
 Kidblog or other blogging service
 Edmodo
 Aurasma, QR codes, or augmented reality
Do you currently use…

13.  Genius Scan uses your phone or tablet’s camera to
capture PDF scans of documents
 Scan documents and post them to the web in
seconds
 Borrow resources from other teachers instantly
 Hand-edit assignments to differentiate, then send via
email to students or parents
 Print using AirPrint, export to DropBox, Google Drive,
etc.
 Download from the Apple or Google App Store
Genius Scan – An easy place to start

14.  Pre-assessments and exit slips can help us adapt our
teaching, but they are tedious to correct
 Zip Grade corrects up to 20 multiple choice papers per
minute and analyzes the data
 Make informed decisions within seconds of receiving
the feedback
 With multiple choice corrected, we can focus on the
more important language skills
Zip Grade – Fast formative data

15.  Assess students orally by having them record for free
online and send to you
 Files can be sent via email or copied and pasted as
links, html code, or QR codes
 Students can be orally assessed simultaneously
Vocaroo – Online voice recorder

16. Turn to someone near you and
share at least one way you could
incorporate any of these tools in
your instruction.
Let’s think…

17.  Assess students’ writing while creating a portfolio
over the year… or more!
 Assess students who are overbooked and spend time
in the car on the way to practice/lessons/games/etc.
 Assess students on a platform that they are used to
Kidblog/Blogging

18.  Embed Vocaroo items to Kidblog
 Use “dialogue journals” to help developing students
and to stretch high-performing students
 High differentiation may include “blogging” vs.
“posting”… this embodies different, not more
 What is the difference between posting and
blogging?
Kidblog/Blogging

19.  1. Posting assignments (No)
 2. Journaling, i.e. Today I... (No)
 3. Posting links (No)
 4. Links with description i.e. This site is about... (No, but getting
closer depending on description)
 5. Links with analysis about content being linked (Yes, basic)
 6. Reflective writing on practice without links (...If yes, then basic)
 7. Links with analysis and synthesis that articulate understanding of
content and potential audience response (Yes)
 8. Extended analysis and synthesis over a longer period of time
building on previous posts, links, and comments (Bingo)
Source : Blogs, Wikis, Podcasts..., Will Richardson
Blogging vs. Posting

20.  Create open-ended, fill-in-the-blank, matching,
multiple choice and true/false items
 All but open-ended are instantly corrected
 Randomize questions for academic honesty
 Students must give feedback about assessments and
assignments before turning them in
 Assessment data is kept over the course of the
year(s) with no clutter
 Paperless assessments mean no photocopying
Edmodo

21.  Use poll questions to allow students to give feedback
 Give feedback in the form of grades, written
responses, smileys, and badges
 Separate students into different groups and assign
different assessments or activities, raise the bar for
the students who need to be challenged and provide
supports for the students who require them
Edmodo

22. Aurasma and Augmented Reality

23. How can you use Aurasma to
assess or differentiate in your
class?
Let’s think…

24.  Physical/digital projects, posters with presentations
embedded
 Differentiation for advanced students who can make
their posters or games more interactive
 Use small pictures on differentiated copies of
assignments to change/upgrade/support tasks
Aurasma – Assessment and
Differentiation

25. Other Related Educational
Technology Topics to Save You Time!
 Dropbox and cloud
storage for file sharing
among colleagues
 Twitter as a PLC
 YouTube as a teacher
resource
 Teacher websites with
links and materials

26. Get started with some of the
resources we have discussed…

27.  Please take a moment to chat with a neighbor
What did we discuss in this session
that you can use in your instruction?

28. http://www.theworldofwallace.yolasite.co
m
This presentation is available through a link on my
homepage: