Web 2.0 Tools For Formative Assesment
Tool 1 Nearpod
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https://nearpod.com/ Interactive slide show tool engages students and promotes collaboration
How to use Nearpod in the classroom
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Teachers can use Nearpod effectively in the classroom to support student learning in a variety of ways. Give students opportunities for interaction and immediate feedback by having them draw on a map, respond to a poll question, post to a collaboration board, or take a multiple-choice quiz. Bring the world to your classroom by incorporating virtual reality and 360° views into your slides. Help students review key concepts through watching videos or reviewing notes. Teach elementary and middle school students how to use technology effectively.
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Whether students draw key locations on a map of Europe, respond to a poll question on tropical forests, watch a video on how to solve a quadratic equation, review notes on the different parts of speech, or submit an open-ended response analyzing a primary document, they're interacting with the content in meaningful ways.
Tool 2 Spiral
https://spiral.ac/ • Provide instant feedback with collaborative, multimedia assessment tool
How to use Spiral in the classroom
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Spiral is an interactive learning platform that teachers can use for quick assessment, student collaboration, interactive video, and flipped classroom activities. Probe deeply by discussing an essential question or a video with students in real time. Use the Team Up feature and monitor progress as students create collaborative presentations about current events, novels, or math and science topics. Show exemplary responses with the class as they create so that they can see models as they work, and cut down on the conundrum of "Who did what?" by viewing each student's contribution on your screen. Grade assignments automatically or individually, and check wholeclass understanding by viewing question-by-question statistics. Want to have students work independently or flip your classroom? Create an assignment, and then send students the link for them to access at school or at home
Tool 3 Flipgrid
https://flipgrid.com/ • Pose questions, spark thoughtful video responses with stellar tool
How to use Flipgrid in the Classroom
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Flipgrid's teacher tools are stellar: Take a spin through the videos to get a sense of smart ways to use it with your students. The range of tips is astonishing; who would have thought you could use a tool like this in a physical education class? If all of your students have access to a device with a camera, this can be a great way to gather students' responses at their own pace without kids feeling on-the-spot in the classroom. Use Flipgrid to further classroom conversations by assigning questions as homework assignments and then continue the conversation in class the next day. Ask students to weigh in on a critical current event for a social studies or civics class; use it in a math class to ask students to describe the process they used to solve a complex problem. You might also use Flipgrid as an opportunity for students to post mini-reviews of books, movies, or television shows. Consider using a "grid" as a way to collect a range of students' responses on a single topic: Perhaps ask students at the end of a unit or the end of a year to reflect on what they've learned and what they'd recommend to other students.
Tool 4 Formative
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https://goformative.com/ Superb real-time assessment tool a fit for BYOD, 1-to-1
How to use Formative in the Classroom
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Use Formative to build bridges between your classroom and home (i.e., lessons and applications) by creating assignments loaded with content (text, images, YouTube videos, and uploaded documents) and variedassessment options suitable for different learners (multiple-choice questions, short response, illustrated response, uploaded images/documents). Make assessment accessible and purposeful with weekly project updates, small application quizzes, and quick writes. In addition to creating class-catered assignments, you can leave personalized student feedback based on individual student data or comparative class data trends. Use that data to quickly inspire the next assignment. Teachers might also consider writing workshops, math labs, history fact checks, scientific argumentation and illustrations, and daily class openers as useful ways to connect technology, learning, and assessment using this blended-classroom tool. One of the best affordances of Formative is the ability to support truly reflective, student-centered formative assessment.
Tool 5 Socrative
https://www.socrative.com/ • Snapshot quizzes and questions measure student learning
How to use Socrative in the Classroom
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Teachers using pen-and-paper assessments, or already onboard with more simple quizzing tools such as Kahoot! or Poll Everywhere, might want to take a look at Socrative as a more robust tool to experiment with. Need a Monday jump start? Set up student teams and plan a Space Race to review last week's material. Check out the data and further plan the week using content-rich, standards-aligned quick questions or exit slips. Quick reading or skills check? Allow students the chance to receive feedback using the quizzing option. Use particular poignant questions to foster further whole-class discussion after students are able to review their results. Also, make use of the short-answer question type at the end of quizzes to gauge student confidence: "Was there anything on the quiz you need more help with?"
Tool 6 Kahoot!
https://kahoot.com/ • Game-like student-response tool can spark competitive fun
How to use Kahoot! in the Classroom
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Kahoot! can quickly become a go-to for teachers looking for an engaging way to run checks for understanding or exit tickets. Try establishing something like Kahoot! Fridays for quick review. If you don't have time to make quizzes, check out standards-aligned content available in Kahoot! Studio, a curated library of quizzes created by Kahoot! and its educational partners. You could even have students take over the review process or class discussion by rotating responsibility for making the weekly quiz. Go beyond memorization of facts and allow Kahoot! to introduce scenario questions/prompts with multiple decisions; stimulate conversation from the results. For instance: Who is really responsible for the death of Romeo and Juliet? Kahoot it out and extend the discussion to classrooms across the state or country. Acclimate students with the site so that they may increase their scores after class has ended or perhaps test their skill with students from around the world in the Kahoot! Ghost mode. With the new Challenge mode, you can assign Kahoot! quizzes for homework by sharing a link or game PIN or by posting to Google Classroom (Challenge mode only works in the app, so students will need a mobile device or Windows 10 computer to access this feature). Don't forget professional development; use the Team mode to pose pedagogical questions and promote food-for-thought discussions among teacher peers.
Tool 7 Quizalize
https://www.quizalize.com/ • Familiar game show-like quizzes with a few new features
How to use Quizalize in the Classroom
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Don't limit Quizalize to summative assessments. Use it as a pre-assessment tool before a unit to see which students need enrichment and which need intervention. Then use it as a formative assessment to check for understanding and determine how to proceed with instruction in the middle of lessons and units. Break out of the multiplechoice modes by setting up surveys to get student opinions or as a self-reflection tool. Also don't forget that students can create their own questions, too, to include in a quiz for their classmates.
Tool 8 • Plickers
https://www.plickers.com/ • Useful rapid-response tool for tech-limited classrooms
How to use Plickers in the Classroom
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Great lessons begin and proceed with well-thought-out questions, and Plickers can help teachers revamp warm-ups, quick checks, and exit tickets while collecting valuable data to help them monitor student progress. Start or end class in a meaningful, engaging manner by asking insightful, thoughtful questions, or challenge students to create questions to be used for quick reviews of information or texts. Begin a unit with a pretest of sorts, gaining valuable information on how to meet students where they are, and determine from the start who may require additional challenges or support. Promote metacognition by asking students procedural or reflective questions. Test-drive quiz and exam questions beforehand, providing time to self-reflect on your instruction before giving students a summative assessment. Need a little pick-me-up in class discussion or behavior? Create big-picture questions to jump-start class discussions and engage students, and break up multiple-choice monotony by letting kids debate the answers or stand up as they respond. Any way you use it, students are sure to prefer the interactive answer cards to paper and pencil assessments.
Tool 9 • Poll Everywhere
https://www.polleverywhere.com/ • Straightforward student-response tool does its job well
How to use Poll Everywhere in the Classroom
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Use Poll Everywhere to conduct class-content-related surveys and spark classroom discussion. Review yesterday's concepts with multiple-choice or shortresponse questions that include text and images as responses. For instance, "Based upon yesterday's lesson, if we change one of the variables in the event or experiment, what could have resulted?" Let the class defend their response or make conclusions for the realtime results. Need a quick snapshot of where the class knowledge or progress is on a particular concept? Administer a quick poll and check out the results, then ask students what they would need to fully understand. Make sure to get students involved. Show them how to deliver audience-grabbing information by integrating polls and surveys in their presentations to appeal to various audiences as well as entice audience participation.
Tool 10 • Peergrade
https://www.peergrade.io/ • Feedback tool with great rubrics might work best for older students
How to use Peergrade in the Classroom
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Start with Peergrade's rubric library to get some ideas for using the tool: There are some great tools here that might help you structure peer feedback around a lab report, a history paper, or an ELA essay. In addition to some sample rubrics, this page features a list of tips and tricks for how to give and receive peer feedback. It's worth considering how you might structure an entire lesson just around the points listed on this page. Consider using Peergrade for one round of edits or feedback as part of the development of a major paper or long-term project; introduce a peer review step to encourage your students to weigh in on each other's progress and help them understand how their own work relates to that of their classmates.
Tool 11 • Padlet
https://padlet.com/
• Collaborate better, Be more productive.
How to use Padlet in the Classroom
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Padlet has been around for a while now. It acts as an online bulletin board where users place “digital sticky notes”. These digital stickies can contain text, web links, uploaded files, photos, and even video! They can be anonymous or students can be required to sign in. The reason why I like Padlet so much is because it is very customizable and lets teachers/students collaborate in different ways. I used Padlet last week as a formative assessment tool to see my students’ current understanding of some important science concepts. I had students visit the Padlet wall I created on their iPad and make a new sticky note. They had to include their first name, then write definitions of volume, mass, and weight in their own words. Padlet is web-based and not an app, so it can be used in any 1-to-1 classroom, regardless of the device being used. If students did not have their iPad with them, I allowed them to team up with another student
Tool 12 • Tricider
https://www.tricider.com/ • Easy decision making. Creative and collaborative.
How to use Tricider in the Classroom
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Collect ideas, discuss and vote. That's how tricider works. Your team will make decisions faster without meetings or calls. Innovative solutions arise because everyone can contribute ideas and vote. Whether with students or peers: taking advantage of all the opinions and ideas to find the best solution has never been easier.
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A peer feedback session with students or the decision on the new logo or idea. Tricider is the easiest way, to gather all opinions and ideas. It´s brainstorming and voting, all in one and online! Even hard decisions can be easy with tricider.
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