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I use this app to leave multi-media feedback on some of my student's assignments. This Google app records your voice and copies a URL linked to your voice recording. You can then past it anywhere, link it to the URL (be sure to delete "(voice note)" at the end of the URL when linking. Then the student can just click on the URL and hear the feedback you leave for them.

Classroom communication/management app

The 2014 National Teacher of the Year, Sean McComb, works at a pretty average-looking high school. Patapsco High School and Center for the Arts isn't a school with extra funding or special dispensation to try something totally different. Students sit at desks, they rotate through periods and, in many ways, the school hasn't revolutionized what it looks like to attend school.

video response and feedback tool

Tool to provide voice feedback with written transcript.

A good rubric can help students understand what is expected of them and it can help teachers score students' assignments consistently and efficiently. If your students are submitting assignments to you through Google Drive or Google Classroom, you may find yourself looking for a way to create and use rubrics without having to leave your Google Drive account to give feedback to your students.

This article explains that differentiated learning is not the same as personalized learning. From my interpretation, differentiated learning is tailored to the needs of a learner within a specific framework (such as State Standards/Common Core) while personalization also considers all of the learner's interests outside of the overarching academic goals, paces the learning to the needs of the student, and uses feedback to adjust as necessary.

We've updated our list of digital education tools and apps for formative assessment success and there are now 55 tools on the list. Take advantage of these great teacher tools and share what tools you use in the classroom for student feedback.