C4T Blog Post #1

Steven Anderson wrote about Formative Assessment in his Web 2.0 Blog. He talked about different kinds of ways to get students to tell the teacher when they didn't understand something. They could use Post It notes on a wall or several different kinds of web-based formative assessements. He explained the assessments. There is Wallwisher, Lino, TodaysMeet, UnderstoodIt, and many more.

The Wallwisher and Lino provide an online corkboard for students to put virtual sticky notes on it. UnderstoodIt is a free website the teacher can set up. The students can go to the specific website and check if they understand a topic or not. If they don't, they click the button that says they don't understand and the teacher can see it in real time. TodaysMeet is interactive as well. The teacher put certain questions about the subjects they covered in class that day and the student goes to the website and answers the questions.

I responded with a comment about how it would have been very nice if I had had those types of assessments for students. It would have kept the amount of kids from failing and dropping out from being so high. The Post It notes is a great idea because it is annonymous and keeps the students from being made fun of by other students. I said it would be difficult for students without internet at home to participate in the interactive assignments on the internet, but that it couldn't be an excuse because the schools all have computer labs now.

2nd Post

In Steven Anderson's January 30, 2013 blog, he talked about spending time at the Florida Educational Technology Conference. He was a speaker. He left links on the post so we could see what he talked about and what his presentation looked like. He also left us a few links to other presenters' websites and presentations. I looked at a few and it was a bunch of links to web tools.

I responded with a comment telling him thank you for posting all of the links for us to use and view. I also said they would come in handy when I become a teacher someday. There wasn't much I could comment on.