This week we learned about seven ways technology helps you modify the format of your assessments to increase engagement and authenticity while keeping the focus on content and skills. The graphic above summarize the session, and the skeleton Powerpoint is here.
This week we learned four tools that make it easy to create graphic organizers, posters, online ad graphics, and infographics. This results in products that are more polished – and authentic – than cutting and pasting on paper! And here’s some work from the workshop participants: Chalynne: Amy Li:
Miss Google Draw? Your students can use Apple Preview or the web app Sketchpad (http://sketch.io/sketchpad) to draw and annotate images.
Creating fun and meaningful assessments can be a challenge – just ask anyone from this week’s #pudPDAsia event. Quizlet Live is one tool you can use to do just that. With a few clicks, you can create a competitive game to help students review vocabulary and concepts. But Aaron Foster explains it better in this […]
Elective teachers starting a new section in semester two may want to migrate their course content from their semester one section. Alternatively, they may want to refer back to student work from the semester one class. The video below explains how to do both of these actions.
It’s getting easier and easier to get around Nansha. The latest entrant to the mobility scene is Ofo, a bike-sharing service whose yellow bikes are ubiquitous in Guangzhou, Shenzhen and other urban areas. Foreigners can sign up if they download the app (using Wechat doesn’t seem to work), but the in-app registration mechanism appears to […]
Office for Mac now lets you co-author in real time just like the online version! (Read more at Arstechnica.) To enable this functionality, update your Office apps by opening any of them, go to the Help menu, and choose Check for Updates. After updating, you will be able to open documents and change them with other […]
If you’re in the middle school and have an iPad, creating a screencast where students draw and explain a concept is easy with an app like Explain Everything. At the high school where students have Macbooks, the drawing part isn’t easy – but it can be with a mini-whiteboard! You can create a simple screencast […]
If you don’t have PDF editing software like Adobe Acrobat Pro, you can still easily create fillable forms using Microsoft Word. Avita recently used this feature to create internal forms for the counseling department. Follow these instructions from Microsoft to create your form or watch this video from a guy on YouTube.
Video projects are always fun for students, and visual literacy is an essential skill in today’s media-oriented world. But we don’t have time to teach the entire grammar of filmmaking. Last week, though, all grade 9 Chinese students learned the basics in a lesson called the Four Shot Movie. The four-shot movie is the most […]