Nearpod - Presentation tool that incorporates different interactive components

Poll Daddy – Create and embed electronic polls and quizzes

Survey Monkey – Create surveys, tabulate data

Zoomerang – Create surveys, tabulate data

Socrative – Build quizzes and surveys, works on any device

Class Dojo – Class Management

Discussion:

Google Docs – Use forms to collect student responses

Titan Pad – Students collaborate on a single document

Padlet – Online “poster board”

Lino – Similar to Wallwisher, more options, works on any device

Product:

Popplet – Graphic organizers/Mind Map

Glogster EDU – Interactive Posters

Voki – Talking avatars

Tagxedo – Word cloud images

Wordle – Word cloud images

Blabberize – talking pictures

Virtual Museums – Create interactive displays (PowerPoint template)

GoAnimate – Video cartoon

ToonDoo - Comic Creator

ShowMe - Whiteboard Tutorial

TagCloud iPad App - Word cloud images 

Cloudart iPad App - Word cloud images 

Wordsalad iPad App - Word cloud images

Every course must have a road map/snapshot that encapsulates:

• Course mission
• Learning targets or standards
  
• Unit essential questions
  
• Student products
  
• Words to watch
  

• Socrative
• Exit cards (Quest for Veritas)
• Lakers, Look journals
• Discussion forums
• Qwizdom
• Portfolios
• Dry erase boards
• Quizzes, tests
• Labs
• Projects
• Presentations
• Performances
• Artwork
• Movies
• Multi-media products
• Portfolios 

• Consider using general rubrics that can be applied to more than one assessment
• Align rubrics within your department for standard focus
• Ensure rubrics have both listed criteria and gradations of quality
• Students may need instruction on how to use rubrics
• Always present rubrics to students with the assignment
• Show quality work examples and non-examples, including your own sample
• While completing the assignment, and before submitting it, students self-evaluate using the rubric
• Create your course rubrics while road mapping. It's suggested that you utilize the same basic template for all of your rubrics so they are user-friendly. 

• Provide effective targeted, penalty free practice for students.
• Enable students to take responsibility for their own learning.
  
• Improve student motivation to learn.
  
• Improve student achievement.
• Create a learning culture rather than an over-the-top grading culture.
  

Guidelines:

• 1-2 grades per week

• We teach for learning mastery, so require revisions and corrections to learn from mistakes and exhibit mastery. This also ensures students can earn back points, although that shouldn't be the focus.

• assessments linked to standards/learning targets

• no extra credit

• late work deducted 10% a day in Canvas

• make up work = follow agendas and submit 1 day after return

• all assessments points-based, weighted based on value

  
  

• grading scale

A 90-100

B 80-89

C 70-79

D 60-69

F 59 or below

• no retakes, BUT students should make corrections and revise to LEARN (a requirement)