TechShare Bytes
Monthly tech tips, tricks, and highlights from ITS Team!
September 2015
Campus Highlight: CHMS
6th grade teacher, Ms. Allison Brown, at College Hill Middle is using a free app to quickly assess student understanding. With "Plickers," teachers use their iPhone to collect real-time formative assessment data without the need for student devices. All students need is a card with a specific picture code.
Features of Plickers:
- easily create questions, exit tickets, polls for use in multiple classes
- students hold up personal code cards to submit their answer
- review immediate student results to tailor instruction
- automatically save all data and results
- easily browse your library of questions using folders created on Plickers website: https://www.plickers.com/
Other Formative Assessments to consider...
- Formative
- Quiziz
- Google Forms
- Socrative
This Month's Featured Web Tools
Google Forms + YouTube Videos
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Pics4Learning
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Chatterkid
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