Flubaroo self Correcting quiz

Subject	Tuesday Tic Tip
From	CJ Mcdonald
To	ORALL; EX All
Sent	Tuesday, November 04, 2014 5:28 AM



Happy Election Day!  This day always fires me up!  Make sure to go and vote!


On to the Tip:


Looking for my schedule?  Try THIS PAGE on the Tic website.


Data collection is so important to our work.  If you are interested in having students complete surveys that are self-correcting (aka a quiz of some sort), HERE is a PowerPoint I’ve been working on showing the basics.  I will be working on the more complicated one soon on how to make pivot tables, charts, and graphs.




This week’s workshop topic(s):
• Creating forms to collect digital items from your students. (so you don’t have to deal with a ton of shared documents in your online folders)
• Syncing OneDrive (if still needed)


Thursday 7:15-7:45 OR Computers Classroom
Thursday 3:00-3:30 @ EX Data Room






CJ McDonald
Linn-Mar Community School District
Middle School Technology Integration Coach
(319) 892-4856
LM TICs Website: http://ow.ly/AxFhK

Polleverywhere.com and OneNote

Subject	Tuesday TIC TIP
From	CJ Mcdonald
To	ORALL; EX All
Sent	Tuesday, October 21, 2014 5:55 AM



Welcome to the Tuesday TIC TIP. 


I will begin workshops before and after school this week.  You are invited to attend either session (and be a little late to the workshop or leave early if you need travel time)


This week: Syncing OneDrive. Everyone needs to have this done to their computer…either by workshop, the training OneNote below, with help from a colleague or me (it takes less than 5 minutes)
• Thursday 3:00-3:30 EX room 409 (data room)
• Friday 7:15-7:45 OR Library (I need to confirm this, if you don’t hear from me, consider this to be the location)




HERE is my OneNote from the Oak Ridge Training yesterday.  I think that there are things on here that EVERYONE would find useful. I am going to keep the surveys active to help gather information, so if you use the OneNote please complete the survey linked on it!


I got some questions about how to put a Poll Everywhere Poll on a PowerPoint.  HERE is a tutorial. (I found out that you can complete it without a cell phone too, that would’ve been nice to know) If you want to know what it is, HERE is their promo




As always, let me know if you need anything.  If you’d like to discuss something lengthy, just ask me to meet with you at a specific time and I’ll make that work or offer an alternative!


Thanks!


CJ McDonald
Linn-Mar Community School District
Middle School Technology Integration Coach
(319) 892-4856
LM TICs Website: http://ow.ly/AxFhK

Kahoot, Classtools, FunnyTimes Comics

Colleagues,
    I just thought I would show you a couple of sites that are pretty cool. 


1. The first one is called KAHOOT.  You sign up, make a series of questions and you are ready to go.  I like to think of it as nearly identical to the Buffalo Wild Wings trivia game, but without the wings and more focus.  On the projector Students see the question.  Then they look at their own device, an iPad, or Laptop to select answers.  The program keeps track of how many points they get based on how quickly they get the correct answer.  It shows the top 5 scores from the class between each question.  Kids love it, and you can download their responses to get data for formative assessment (this is NOT appropriate to use as a summative or formal quiz)
2. Classtools has a couple of tools I like, for example a random name selector and a giant countdown timer for in class use.
3. Funnytimes Comics I always loved having student make a comic strip to check up on what they know and give them a chance to be creative…maybe even funny.  Make sure to read the directions about how to make a comic before you have your kids do it; its pretty simple! ( I always had the students print out the comics instead of “publishing” them on the website)


Have a great week.  Today I’ll be back in the buildings:


Oak Ridge 8:45-11:00
LRC Work: 11:00-12:30
Excelsior: 1:00-3:30


CJ McDonald
Linn-Mar Community School District
Middle School Technology Integration Coach
(319) 892-4856
LM TICs Website: http://ow.ly/AxFhK