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WizIQ's free teacher accounts give educators at accredited institutions access to a range of teaching tools. To many educators, the virtual classroom for which WizIQ is best known only means live classes, which they might not need considering they see their students in person every day.
But with the WizIQ Virtual Classroom teachers can also:
Offer online courses for their school
Run virtual office hours and homework help
Run summer school online to address transportation and facilities issues
Give AP students a jumpstart with virtual summer class sessions
Let athletes or homebound students work with their classes, live, even if they can't be there
Easily set up classes - without IT help
Bring subject matter experts into their classrooms virtually
Support group and project-based learning
Engage hard-to-reach parents with:
Virtual parents' nights
Virtual conferences
Adult education and community outreach
Virtual math and literacy nights
Broadcast live school committee meetings on the web
Record lectures or flip their classrooms
Conduct virtual field trips
Run professional development when and where staff are available
Share teaching resources among schools
Teachers can take full advantage of every WizIQ feature, including screen-sharing, polling, video-confe
The Summer 2011 Multi-Language Teacher workshop will be an on-site training open to Startalk teachers from around the country with preference given to teachers in our 2011 Startalk programs.
The Summer 2011 Multi-Language Teacher workshop will be an on-site training open to Startalk teachers from around the country with preference given to teachers in our 2011 Startalk programs.
This is a note I created that I can add to the page to draw attention to a certain area, or ask a question, etc. I have also set this note to be visible only to the "carlatech" Diigo group.
This is terrific, Marlene. I intend to look into this Blog for my Action Research project for the IBSC (International Boys' Schools Coalition) I am part of. I am supposed to work all year long on my action and report on my findings next summer at the annual gathering in London (We are a team of 16 language teachers from all over). Your summer institute has been a wake up call for me in so many senses!! Also, thanks for inviting me to join this group!
Some recorded presentations from the LARC 2010 summer seminar. Topics include social media tools (PrimaryPad, VoiceThread), PhotoStory 3, blogs, Skype, Twitter, and more!
Digital storytelling is so awesome! I got a chance to create a digital story through the Minnesota Writing Project Invitational Summer Institute and it was an awesome experience. I'd highly recommend looking into your local branch of the National Writing Project to see what resources or professional development are available.
Wetoku is a web service or Web 2.0 tool out of Korea that provides a simple platform for interviewing someone via the Internet. Collaborating globally is a must for our students and as result interviewing can be a challenge. Wetoku makes doing an interview as easy as filling out some basic information, creating an interview session and then sending the creative interview session's URL to the interviewee. Once the recording is done, the interviewer can embed the copy of the URL into a blog or website. You will need a web-cam for this tool.
I loved that the Google Form gathered all of the responses together so I could look at student answers all together to see if their answers were a pattern of things that none of them learned, or if it was just a few students that needed review.
I have used it for formative tests that go in the "participation" category. I like being able to look at the results immediately so I can give the class immediate feedback.
I am armed with some knowledge of the classes overall abilities as well as some individual struggles so I can help specific students one-on-one. I have adjusted some of my review activities to better focus on what students need to work on.
I've done intakes at the beginning of the year at the adv. level to see why they chose the elective and what they hope to learn, but this seems like a great way to assess 'summer attrition' at the lower levels. On it!
Agreed. Last year, I asked students to use post it notes on a drawn scale that I put on the wall, to represent how much Spanish they felt they knew. A Google quiz would be a great way of doing a follow-up to this activity. Moreover, I could think of a concluding self-assessment: now that you have a better sense of how much Spanish you know, what goals can you think of for this year? I wonder if I can also use Google for a goals activity, too?
@effeinstein Yes, all of my vocabulary quizzes are on Google Forms and I use GF extensively for gathering reflections pre-post units, post field trips, in general, anytime I need to gather data from students about what we are working on-- Sometimes I collect their emails, other times anonymous, if I feel that I might gather more frank feedback that way-- The spreadsheet of data is nice to look over when considering how well something went, or to make tweaks for the next iteration of work. I can also pull quotes for presentations to faculty and families, or in writing narrative reports-- Also makes grading quick and easy-- Sometimes I print out the quizzes for quick one on one feedback for students--
I wonder what a good group size would be for most Padlet activities? If it's sort of a social media feed like the one I created for class, I suppose it could be everyone. If it's creating a digital poster, groups of three might work well.
This really does make things easier. My students had trouble remembering passwords to things this summer, so it's great when there is no login required.