I like the many options this site has of tools for competency based assessment:
1. Easily create standards-aligned rubrics, checklists & badges
2. Score on your iPad or other mobile devices
3. No internet necessary in the classroom
4. Issue digital badges with evidence
5. Print rubrics for completing on paper or save and share as a PDF file
6. Access your assessment results on the ForAllRubrics secure website
7. ePortfolio tools that support capturing reflections and learning artifacts
8. Standards-based reporting with support for the Common Core
Academic Tribe is a collective of creative learning designers, education technologists, designers and other education experts, working with institutions and organizations around the globe to develop learning solutions.
On Web 2.0 Tool for Teachers you can find resourceful links to numerous technology topics and information on Wikispaces, Digital Storytelling, etc. The Wikispace page provides substantive details on the pros and cons versus a blog and instructional material with example sites.
On topic for this week - hardware! This blog post helps to explain the different types of laptop storage drives. I enjoyed the video which shows the different hardware parts.
This website shows the top 10 reasons to create and maintain a blog as a means of professional development
* personal experience statements from other educators with links to their bogs * great ideas on how to layout your own blog as an educator
32 Productivity Apps to help students and adults
- Coursera for free adult courses from top colleges
- Schoology K12 looks interesting...
- Coldturkey blocks everything that may distract online work! Great idea for in class assignments.
GSE researchers identify secrets to successful technology implementation, particularly with students at risk of dropping out. - Stanford Graduate School of Education
- BBC Podcast shows how technology is improving individualized learning and improving student achievement - kids move ahead at their own pace versus no technology schools that believe in free play and creativity
- Silicon Valley pays 30% more for their teachers
- Salman Khan & Nolan Bushnell
- flipping the classroom
- technology personalizes education and teachers become mentors
- Florida virtual school - Noah Schnacky
- Silicon Valley parents send their children to no technology schools - free play is a priority
Technology in lesson planning - http://www.voki.com/ - allows students and teachers to create avatars for lessons, projects, and homework. Teachers have common core lesson plan opportunities in Math, ELA, Social Studies, and Science - Looks FUN!