Diary of a Techie Chick: quizzes

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App / Tool of the Week ... Edmodo

I bet you are wondering what is Edmodo and why should I use it. Edmodo is a secure platform that brings your classroom into the 21st century. It allows your classroom and resources to be accessible to students 24 hours a day and 7 days a week. Edmodo is designed to get students excited about learning and mirrors a social network. It also makes it easy for teachers to create a blended learning experience while teaching 21 century skills. Edmodo offers engaging, easy-to-use apps that integrate seamlessly and personalize learning for every student.

Edmodo is all about connections. It allows teachers to build a powerful network that connects them to students, parents, administrators and publishers. It makes assessing students knowledge simple to track with student progress. Teachers can get the pulse of the class through polls, quizzes, discussion, and more. Edmodo can be accessed through your computer's browser or the app for a mobile device. There are over 23,000,000 user from around the world using Edmodo.

Useful Slideshow on how to use Edmodo

Getting Started:

Create your account
Complete your profile
Create a group
Invite students and peers

Share resources, lead collaborative discussions, give assignments, quizzes, polls and more

Install Apps

Engage students, inspire creativity, assess learning

Follow and participate in communities

Connect with educators from around the world
Connect with me - https://www.edmodo.com/mrs-wilsons-class
Discover great resources

Best Practices for Social Learning:

Do not post group codes publicly
Lock group codes after all members have joined
Monitor posts

Set up notifications

Use read-only status when useful
Encourage students to select unique passwords
Set expectations

Now to answer the question "Why should I use it?" My answer is WHY NOT!

My Recap of Edmodocon 2013.....

I bet you are asking yourself what is Edmodocon. EdmodoCon is an entire day of short professional development sessions on a variety of topics on using technology in the classroom and is sponsored by Edmodo broadcasted in a webcast. I was just one of the 25,000 educators from 170 countries enrolled for this one of a kind conference. There were several viewing parties, where educators got together and participated virtually as group during the conference. I myself was a party of one.

During the conference I learned a lot about Edmodo itself. In the past I used Edmodo here and there with a small group of students. Listening to how others have used this powerful online tool inspired me to totally embrace all of what Edmodo can do. I didn't realize how powerful the groups can be within Edmodo. During the conference I kept hearing how kids love to earn badges. During one of the breaks I created Ancient Egypt, Ancient Rome, and keyboarding badges. I plan on creating more and defining how to earn them later this week.

In the past I knew about the folders but I wasn't very organize when I uploaded my stuff to the library. During another little break I was able to organize the items I already had thanks to a teacher I was in a chat with and started adding new items that were shared in the community. I didn't have to upload items if someone else already shared it what a concept.

I am wanting to do Flipped Instruction with my students so the Edmodo platform just became the right choice for me. I love the idea that I can connect with classrooms from around the world. Having everything in one place, assignments, quizzes, videos, and etc... will just make my life a whole lot easier.

I am also taking "The Challenge" to apply at least one thing I have learned from Edmodocon. I looked at the list of all that have signed up for "The Challenge" and I was 23rd on the list. For the first 500 people who participate in the whole process by completing "Th Challenge" form and completing the form they will share October 1st, will win $100 in promotional Edmodo Store Credit to install and integrate apps in your groups. I am kind of motivated and would love to have the GoAnimate app for all of my students.

I use Google Docs in my classroom I had no idea that I could incorporate my already created Google Forms/Docs/Spreadsheets and etc... within Edmodo. This discover with the help of yet another teacher I was chatting with during the conference made my heart sing. You can also embed items. So if you have embed codes they should work wonderful within Edmodo. There was so much information shared I have picked a handful of my favorites to share with you.

My Global Project thanks to Edmodocon

Resources:

The Challenge
The Virtual Poetry Summit
Galaxy Bazaar
ReMix of Edmodo
Lego Avatar Creator
HeroMachine 2.5 - Create Your Own Hero Avatar
Edmodo Posting Rubric
Global Read Aloud Wiki
Global Read Aloud 2013
Flattening the Classroom with Edmodo
LiveBinder of Edmodo Resources
Edmodo Scavenger Hunt
Example of a Tech Survey
Edcanvas - Also has an App within Edmodo
Classroom Gymnastics
Rigorous STEM Learning in Edmodo

Tips:

Make folders in your "Library". Keep organized!
Join groups/communities that fit your needs.
Lock down your groups.
Use the widget to help turn items on and off with in your groups.
Use the Filter to help filter posts.
Modify your notifications to fit your needs.
Make connections within Edmodo.

My Profile in Edmodo - https://www.edmodo.com/mrs-wilsons-class

My 1st e-Textbook....

To really embrace Flipping my Classroom I have created my 1st e-Textbook. This book is full of video clips, interactive review questions, and screen shots. I designed this book by topics not necessary chapters. My Computer Apps class is an 18 week long course. During the course I have to cover the topics of Word Processing, Spreadsheets, Research, and Email to name a few.

My goal was to make this e-Textbook interactive and full of resources for my students. I also wanted to pair this book with my classroom website. I created a few videos clips with Green-Screen Effect. I also made a few quick intro video clips via PowTown. I loved that I could link to video clips from Google, Prezi, SlideRocket, and Glogster Edu. Why reinvent the wheel if the creator of the tool already made a video clip?

What I love about this is that there is a Glossary and a place built in for kids to take notes. This is my 1st try at an interactive e-Textbook and I am sure I will be making revisions.

The possibilities for e-Textbooks are endless.

Mrs. Wilson's Computer Apps - Let's Take Flight

From Word Wall to Quizzes

From a Word Wall to Quizzes...

For the past few weeks I've been teaching my 8th grade computer apps class students how to use an online tool to collaborate, another online tool to create online flashcards, and yet another tool to tie it all together and create online quizzes. With Common Core in full swing it is important that students can apply what they are learning. Business today want their employees to be able to collaborate, communicate, gather data, and produce results. To meet this demand I created a unit that walks students through these steps and learn some technology words in the process.

Step 1: Students research 10 words they think relate to technology in some format.
Step 2: Students collaborate using an online cork board for example a.ka. Wallwisher/Padlet. During this time they are to communicate via email so that no technology words are used more than once.
Step 3: Students then pick any 15 technology words from this online word wall and create online flashcards using Quizlet.
Step 4: Students study other student created flashcards.
Step 5: Students create a online quiz using Google Forms.
Step 6: Students randomly take 10 different student created quizzes.
Step 7: Students create a chart that best represents their results of their quiz.

We are currently one the step of creating a chart that best represents their results.

Tech Tip:

To help organize students' flashcards and quizzes I have created an Symbaloo board. Using a Symbaloo board helps keep my students focused and on the task at hand.

My Examples:

Review Game Zone

Review Game Zone .....

I have been trying to flip my instruction around and had a bright idea. All year I have been giving my students a packet that is full of information about the topic we are studying. Instead of me lecturing what they needed to learn I was trying to guide them to find the most important information out of the packet. My bright idea was to create online games to help guide my students. You can only play the Jeopardy game or Who Wants to be a Millionaire games for so long before students start to get tired of them. So in search of some free tools I found this webtool Review Game Zone.

Step 1: Create your FREE teacher account.
Step 2: Add a "New Test".
Step 3: Enter your questions.
Step 4: Share with your students.

Students can preview the questions in the game. Select from a wide variety of games which has the same questions embedded in them. Students can even take the online quiz and get instant feedback.

If you search for Wilson in the teachers window you will find all of my games I have made (Katie Ann Wilson) or you can click on the games listed below.

Games I have made via Review Game Zone:

I have also created games via Super Teacher Tools.