Well as for this week’s assignments, I really enjoyed them. I struggled through getting them uploaded correctly and linked on my blog. However, I am very new to computers and struggle through most things technology related. I really enjoyed the exposure of the new websites and the tools that they offered me to create assignments for the classroom. I especially liked the Rubistar website. I had a class this summer that spent a lot of time on rubrics and they can get pretty complicated. However, if you are looking for a simple rubric it is an easy way to keep yourself from over complicating it. The puzzle maker was a great website as well. If you are going to be teaching younger students this would be an extremely helpful website. I don’t really see too much use for it for high school level students. I also ran into a little trouble getting my solutions to show. It kept saying that I needed to install Adobe Flash Player which I did and it still would not give me a solution. It would give me my puzzle but would not show a solution. That was an extremely aggravating process. If I was using them in the classroom I really would not need the solution, because I would know the answers and could make my own key. For this assignment I did need the answer key so it was a little discouraging. The easy test maker was my favorite site. I can really see myself using the easy test maker in the future. Creating a test can be a frustrating process. Easy test maker organized everything and simplified the stress of making a test. I can see that website being useful for many educators.
I enjoyed the web evaluation. It helped me clarify if that website was truly an effective and useful website for the students. Usually I don’t think people read that deep into websites and the web evaluation did not take very long and made you truly think about it.
Track star seemed like a useful tool. I am looking forward to using it and expanding my knowledge on the program. I really think that it would be quite effective in some situations. Track star can be used for a specific project that the students must complete. I liked how it could act as a road map for the students for a certain project.
I believe that this week was extremely helpful for me, I enjoyed all the helpful tools.
Week 13 (Chapter 11 & 12)
15 years ago
Ditto! The Web sites were a huge help. I know I wish I'd had knowledge of them during last summer's classes - the Rubric is a great tool. I have used it again for class participation during an activity. I plan to have it in the activity this coming week.
ReplyDeleteAgain, there are just so many useful tools, it is easy to get too much to use effectively.
Sky,
ReplyDeleteI really enjoyed reading your reflections and am very glad to know your thought on how to use these tools in your class. I want you know that you can add your link at the end of your reflection posting instead of posting them in a new post. Or you can add your reflection to your link post. Either way, you can click the Pen icon at the end of your post and go back to editing mode. You can do whatever you need to your post. Let me know if you need extra help. Great job.