2016 Discovery Education 3M Young Scientist Challenge Final Event Tuesday, October 18, 2016 11:00AM10/17/2016 Live from 3M's Innovation Center - REGISTER TODAY!There are 10 national finalists but only 1 can be named America's Top Young Scientist.
Tune in LIVE on October 18th at 11am ET to see the 2016 Discovery Education 3M Young Scientist Challenge finalists compete for $25,000 and the title of “America’s Top Young Scientist.” The event will occur at http://www.youngscientistchallenge.com/2016-final-event. Meet the finalists before the big event! The 10 finalists have been working all summer long to bring their innovative ideas to life with the help of a 3M Scientist mentor. Meet the finalists and follow their journey to the final event on the Young Scientist Challenge blog! As most of your know, I am a huge fan of Richard Byrne from http://www.freetech4teachers.com/. Here are five formative assessment tools that can be used to place quick, formative assessments into your classroom blog. Formative: Since this post is about formative assessment tools it makes sense to start with one that is actually called Formative. Formative offers an nice way to create multiple choice, open-response, and image-based quizzes. The image-based quizzes that you create in Formative can be embedded into your classroom blog where your students can then answer the questions in the quiz. Watch the video below Vizia: Vizia is a free tool for creating video-based quizzes. It can be used to create a short activity designed to help you determine if your students understand a concept or concepts demonstrated in a video lesson. TodaysMeet: TodaysMeet is a free backchannel tool that can be used to have students respond to questions you have posted in the backchannel or you can simply have your students ask you questions. Watch the video below. Dotstorming: Dotstorming is a great platform for having students post ideas and vote on their favorite ideas. One of the ways that you could use Dotstorming is to post a set of answer choices for your students and have them vote for the answer that they think is correct. Dotstorming activity boards can be embedded into blog posts and webpages. Google Forms: Google Forms is the obvious choice for creating simple formative assessments to embed into a blog or website.
Padlet is a great tool for teachers that can be used in a variety of ways. Padlet works on interactive white boards, iPads and an app is now available from the Chrome store.
Padlet is a tool that provides students with an engaging platform for learning with and from others. Teachers can create virtual walls around a concept or topic. Students access the walls through a link delivered from the teacher and they add "stickies" that illustrate their knowledge, ideas, and opinions. Artifacts such as videos, PDFs, images, audio files, web links, etc., can be attached to a "sticky" to provide evidence of learning. Sign up today and try it!
Seesaw is a free iPad app where students can create a portfolio to document the things they have learned. Students can add artifacts to their portfolio by taking pictures, making a short video, or using the audio portion to record a voice comment (reflection) to their picture. Students are also able to create folders within their account to organize content from multiple subject areas.
Get started today by creating a free classroom account. Students join the class by scanning a QR code that gives them access to your class. Seesaw is also available as a Chrome web app and an Android app. Plickers has a shiny new update for you with a brand-new look and feel and a few extra goodies. You'll be able to see image previews for your questions and even add photos from your mobile device. Take a look at the blog post on Plickers team blog or you can visit their Help Center for more information.
More updates for both web and mobile are just around the corner, so stay tuned! I hope each of you have had a great summer and are well rested and ready to return to a new school year. It has been a great summer for me but it has been very busy.
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