Techie Time with Tiff
Issue 8
Use Takeaways™ to Extend your Lesson and Give Students Feedback
Quick facts about Takeaways:
- A Takeaway is a Google Doc that lives in Google Drive.
- When you publish Takeaways, each student who joined the Session gets their own copy in their Google Drive.
- In the Takeaway, students see each slide from the Deck and all of the answers they provided to your questions. They only see their answers, not the answers of their peers.
- The teacher has editing rights to each student's Takeaway. That means you can open a student's Takeaway and leave comments for them. You can also share a Takeaway with other teachers, parents, or mentors through the Google Drive share interface.
- In addition to seeing the content from your Session, students also get space to type notes and reflect on what they learned.
- Each time you publish Takeaways, you get a Blank Responses Copy. You can share it to a student who missed class so they can work through the lesson!
- Takeaways can be published only once per Session - but you can run unlimited Sessions in Pear Deck.
- Takeaways are individual Docs. But if you looking for a way to see all of your students' responses in one document, try exporting responses to a Google Sheet.
Example Takeaway
The image shows you what each Takeaway will look like. Notice that the document contains the name of the Session, the name of the Deck, the name of the person who presented, and the date.
Use a Takeaway to Extend the Lesson
When you publish Takeaways, you give students an easy way to go back and review the lesson later.
BUT THERE'S MORE!
You can also use Takeaways to extend the lesson beyond the classroom. For example, you could assign Takeaways as homework and ask students to reflect on what they learned in the spaces provided. You could ask them to reflect on another student's answer that differed from theirs or to describe their thought process as they unpacked certain questions. These kinds of reflection questions help students think about their learning process in a meta-cognitive way.
Because you have access to the Takeaway through Google Docs, you can leave comments for students, giving them specific feedback on their answers.
GIMKIT
It’s a fun game (think quizlet meets kahoot) that teachers can use as reviews, pre-assessments, homework, etc. In the game, players earn money by answering questions correctly, and they can spend their money on “power-ups” like choice elimination or even throwing virtual pies at other players/teams to slow them down. BONUS, you can pull already created quizlet sets right in and start playing! Let me know if you use this in your room so I can come to check it out and tweet it!
FYI: This game was created by a high school student!
Teacher Shout Out:
Mrs. Nash has been using this game in her classroom for a review. She has stated that her kids love the gaming part of this program. If you need help with this or what to see it in action please feel free to reach out to Mrs. Nash or me.
Edpuzzle Tips and Tricks:
- The "Due assignments" section organizes all given assignments by due date, helping your students stay on track and understand what they need to complete.
- Th "Completed" section stores all completed assignments so students can review past lessons or study for exams.
Calculated Grades
IMPORTANT INFORMATION:
Grades calculated in Schoology my vary from the grades you have in Skyward. This is because they both calculate grades in a different way. You can use this document to fix the way Schoology calculates grades. This especially becomes an issue when you have the exact same grades in both grade books.
Mastery in Schoology - Since parents can see their child’s Mastery of TEKS in Schoology. Please make sure you are assigning TEKS to assignments, discussion, tests, quizzes, assessments...pretty much anything you do in Schoology. Here is some information about using Mastery in Schoology. The Mastery piece will help you when the district moves to Standard-Based Grading.
Due Dates in Schoology - when parents logged in to Schoology during our training sessions, many were concerned at the list of overdue assignments. Please make sure that if you are not worried about students turning the assignment in that you do not have a due date. If you change the due date to a later date, please make sure that you make the change in Schoology as well.
Absent Students - while everything for your class may be in Schoology, please make sure that if you have a student absent, they know where to go to find material that he/ she missed on the day he/she was absent.
Roadmap:
Tiffany Keiser
Email: tkeiser1@kleinisd.net
Website: https://techietiff.youcanbook.me
Phone: 832.249.5735
Twitter: @MsKeiser1