Flubaroo: Automated Google Docs Self-Grading Quizzes

A truly remarkable teaching tool is one that can collect information to evaluate student performance and provide students and teachers with immediate feedback for modification, reteaching and challenge.

Until now, the best tool I've shared has been Using Google Docs Self-Grading Quiz as an Exit Ticket. This post has claimed the position of runner up in popularity of posts on this blog because many teachers recognize the need for quick and efficient ways to collect and use data to maximize and fine-tune instruction.

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Exploring Apps Today

Today I get to collaborate with my peers to explore and share iPad apps for teachers. With so many apps, so little time, and so many contributors, the decision about which apps to share could get complicated so I tried not to over-think it. Here are some apps I've chosen to share. 

Watch this list grow as I add the ideas of others to my playlist!

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Design Your Digital Classroom

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Next Webinar: Improve Writing Skills with Google Docs

Webinar on Tuesday
Please join me and Simple K12 for a webinar to explore the integrated writing and research tools available in Google Docs to help students improve writing skills.

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Collaborate About iPad Apps on Wallwisher

Mark Anderson @ICTEvangelist has created an interactive Wallwisher board of sticky notes today on a hot topic, iPad apps for Edu. This is a great chance for educators to collaborate and quickly collect valuable resources. Please join in and create a note on the embedded wall below or for a better experience please visit the wall itself.

It appears as though Wallwisher is trying to change it's name to Padlet. Good luck!

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Visualead: Colorful QR Code Generator

Visualead is a free and user friendly tool for generating colorful QR codes in three simple steps.

1.  Uppload an image.
2.  Drag the slider over the image.
3.  Click lick a button to generate the embed code.

Visualead is integrated with many popular social networking tools which allows you to create a QR code to suit your needs.

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Kick It Up a Notch with Google Docs

I used ThingLink to organize and put together some useful resources for Google Docs for learning. Scroll your mouse over this interactive image to explore the resources.

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Bloom's Presented Visually

Creative educators everywhere are putting together interesting visual representations of Bloom's Digital Taxonomy. I have been using Scoop.It to quickly capture some of this content, publish and share it. 

In this collection you will find The Blooming Orange, by Learning Today. This my favorite model because it presents a simplified way to think about Bloom's. Visit Learning Today to learn more and print a copy of this poster to hang in your workspace.

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Civil Rights HotSpots

A few years ago I used Dipity to create this multimedia timeline, Civil Rights Hotspots. I recently recycled the timeline for use with a Common Core aligned student driven learning activity I designed, Struggle for Justice. In case you have never run across the timeline on this blog, I thought I would republish it as a stand alone.

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Digital Literacy: How to Embed Almost Anything

One of the things I look for in a Web 2.0 tool is a built in embed feature that allows users to display live 3rd party content in a blog or website so visitors don't have to leave the page. Fortunately many Web 2.0 tools include an auto-generated embed code that can be copied and pasted into the html or source of a blog or website to display live content, but if a tool doesn't include that feature you can usually use an iFrame to embed the content yourself.

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Vocabulary & Significant Text: I Have a Dream

Common Core Shift 6 suggests that it is important to dig deeper into Tier II vocabulary words. Tier II  words are those words that are found across many content areas and change meaning depending on context.

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