I love finding “Jackpot” resources online and boy do I have some Jackpots for you! Starting backwards on lessons always helps me to be sure I know my assessments are going tell me whether or not my students “got it”. The first two sites are Google and Web 2.0 tools according to the Digital Blooms Taxonomy.
Once I know what it is my students need to do,
Create
Evaluate
Analyze
Apply
Understand
Remember
I can see what the best web tool or Google app/tool would be for the job!
Need a little help developing learning objectives, questions to challenge your students, and create assignments? Use this site by Jen Farr,Bloom's Revised Cognitive Domain website,to improve your instructional practice.
Jackpot #1
Bloomin' Google:Google Apps & Tools to support Bloom's Revised Taxonomy from Kathy Schrock
This will be my last post of the 2010-2011 year... wow the year went by fast! I have already started making plans for the upcoming school year and I know many classroom teachers are as well. This site was recommended in my Twitter feed this morning and it looks like a fun way to share content so when you are thinking about projects for next year, keep this site in mind: flipsnack.
What flipsnack does is takes a PDF file and turns them into an online book. I don't have lengthy self-created PDF files on my computer so I just used one that I was reading today:
Here is another very short one of some of my own Publisher files. I just combined three different Publisher posters together into one Publisher document, printed it as a PDF using the free CutePDF Writer, and uploaded it to flipsnack.
How cool would it be to have your students create posters on topics they are studying and then to put the projects together in a PDF, upload it into a book and have that book available online for review? Or maybe create a book to show off final projects? Registration is required and final books can be embedded in a blog like I have done or the book's direct link can be shared with others.
So along with flipsnack came a few other "snack" applications, accessible from the same site (bottom of page) using the same login. One is bannersnack, which changed my individual images into an animated image. Mine includes only two images but you can make longer ones, you can pick different sizes, and you can add text.
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There is also quizsnack. If you create a poll (only one answer can be marked) or a personality quiz (like ones you might have seen on FB) you can see the responses when you log into your account. Unfortunately, while users of free accounts can make surveys (visitors can mark as many answers as they wish), users cannot see the results for free so Google forms might be a better option in that case. Here is a short poll I created...
Response data can be put right on the widget for all to see or kept private so it is only available when you log into your account
