End of School Year Tools for Creative Summative Assessment

May 16, 2014
Looking to flex your creative muscle and build something? Here are a set of useful digital tools to help you put together all kinds of things, from websites to presentations to newsletters and more. Make something to enhance your lesson, or have your students construct something as a creative summative assessment activity.

QuizOperator 

Project this free quiz creator onto a whiteboard to show the real-time scores of your students. Or, use it for private quizzes.

Apollo 

Enhance your slide decks with audio and animated drawings. Then host live questions and manage the back channel of your presentations. 

The Tweeted Times 

Create a personalized newsletter based on the links tweeted by the people you are following. Articles are ranked by popularity.

PhotoFunia 

 Put your photos through this wide collection of filters to produce stunning, and even funny images. Available as a free web or mobile app.

MyBrainShark 

 Record your voice to augment your slide deck as a video you can embed on a blog. Or use this site to put together a simple podcast.

Posterini 

Assemble an online poster with easy drag & drop controls, then share it with friends, colleagues, or students.

Want more? Check out these collections of tools .
Maker/Coding Apps 

A collection of "maker" apps to help students construct their learning, 21st-century style. Curated by technology coach Elizabeth Espinoza.

Creativity and the Common Core 

 A collection of useful apps for encouraging and developing creativity. Curated by educator Linda Nitsche

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5 Useful iPad Apps to Assess Students Works

April 22, 2014
This is the third post in a series of posts covering the wonderful work of Tony vincent' iPad as Teacher's Pet'. Today, I am sharing with you  5 useful iPad apps Tony featured in his visual. These apps will help you grade sudent works, keep anecdotal notes, track students progress and collect learning artifacts. Enjoy.

Three Ring

Three Ring is an app and a website. Use the app to digitize student work by taking photos or recording video or voice. The student work is securely synced to the teacher's account at Threering.com where the teacher can add comments. Items can be shared with students and parents.

Evernote

While not specifically made for assessment, Evernote works well to collect learning artifacts and make anecdotal notes. Make a notebook for each class and a note for each student. Notes can include text, images, video, audio, and other files. The Evernote app is synced with Evernote for Mac, PC, and Web.

ForAllRubrics

Easily find or create rubrics in your web browser. Complete them by going to ForAllRubrics.com in Safari on your iPad. Safari can store and sync rubrics for use offline. You can print rubrics or save a PDF or spreadsheet. You can also have students log in to view their rubrics.

Qucik Key

Quick Key eliminates hand-grading of multiple choice answer sheets. A teacher inputs classes, students, and quizzes into the app or into the web interface at quickkeyapp.com. Students fill in the Quick Key bubble sheet and the app grades it instantly by scanning it  through the iPad's camera.

iDoceo

iDoceo is your new powerful and easy to use gradebook for the iPad. Its spreadsheet engine will calculate averages in real time as you put information in. No internet connection is required to use it. You can insert any kind information for each class, student and semester visually, no more boring spreadsheets. Scroll , expand, filter, export,import and view your information at any time.

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