Four Ways to Use Pinterest in Education

10 Great Free Google Forms Every Teacher Should Be Using Today's post is about a great work that has been done by our colleague Tom Barret. He has created awesome example forms for different topics. He has also made all these forms available for us to download and use with our students. To download any of the forms below, make sure to visit Tom's original post. 1- Get to Know your Class Use this form to collect information about your students such as their likes, dislikes, club affiliations, and many more. 2- Emotion Graph This is a form ideal for use by students when studying linear narrative both written or visual. 3- Spelling Test As its name suggests , this form is great for use inside the classroom to test students spelling. 4- Comprehension Questions This is a form that test students understanding of a text or anything thing else you want to test. 5- Weekly Reading Record This is a form where students can provide data about their reading. 6- Maths Data Handling 7- Guided Reading Record 8- Prior Learning Assessment 9- Library Book Review

tools 50+Ways - home Want To Learn About The Next Generation Of Tests We’ll Be Giving Our Students? As readers may know, both Secretary Duncan and President Obama have been talking a lot about their efforts to identify better forms of testing. Three groups of states have applied to a $350 million fund to develop this “new generation” of testing. You can read more about them and the funding program at Three Groups Apply for Race to Top Test Grants. Reading through the actual proposals, however, can be pretty painful. Happily, the Center for K-12 Assessment and Performance Management , a new group set-up by the Educational Testing Service, has created graphic representations of two of the proposals. They will be posting one for the third group soon. The Partnership for Readiness for College and Career (PARCC) The SMARTER Balanced Assessment Consortium (SBAC) Thanks to Curriculum Matters for the tip. You might also be interested in: The Best Resources For Learning About The “Value-Added” Approach Towards Teacher Evaluation

Pinterest Resources for Educators There is a lot of interest in pinterest from educators this summer. I pulled together a collection of all my pinterest resources to help you get started. This is my blog post on how to get started with Pinterest, including tips to easily score an invite (It isn't that hard.) This is a great thing to do over the summer. ERic has moved to pinterest and has a set of pinboards that any Administrator will learn from. Lots of free resources for teachers. 5 Sources of Free Sound Effects and Music This morning Greg Kulowiec and I are teaching a workshop on creating content in iBooks Author. I'm starting the morning with a discussion about Copyright, Creative Commons, and Fair Use. This collection of resources for locating music and sounds licensed for re-use is one that I am sharing with the group. The Free Music Archive provides free, high-quality, music in a wide range of genres. The content on Free Music Archive is used under various creative commons licenses. Sound Bible is a resource for finding and downloading free sound clips, sound effects, and sound bites. Royalty Free Music hosts music tracks that can be reused in numerous ways. Jamendo is a source of free and legal music downloads. From the same people that brought us the great computational search engine Wolfram Alpha comes Wolfram Tones.

20 Three-Minute Brain Breaks Wednesday's guest post about why kids need to move from pediatric occupational therapist Loren Shlaes was so popular that I decided to follow it up with a list of Brain Breaks you can use with your students. These are great to use anytime your students are feeling restless and are struggling to pay attention. Most of these will only take a few minutes, and then you can get back to the lesson with your students ready to focus on the lesson at hand.5-4-3-2-1. In this simple game, students stand up and the teacher (or leader) has them do five different movements in descending order. Please note that I did not come up with all of these out of my own head. Here is a nine-minute video about how to manage Brain Breaks in your classroom. What works in your classroom?

Easily Test your Students Digital Skills Using Microsoft Digital Literacy Today as I was wading through my feeds I came across a great web tool from Microsoft. This is called Microsoft Digital Literacy. It is basically an assessment system that teachers can use to test their students digital knowledge. Microsoft Digital Literacy can be used by teachers especially in the begiining of a new school year to assess and learn about their students technology and internet related abilities. The assessment is very easy to use and has a very interactive interface. The questions vary in their difficulty and there is a score assessment system that scores your assessment and provides you with a personalized learning plan.

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