• feedback,  Google,  pegeeks,  screencasting,  Technology in PE

    Quickcast and autoCrat – two important #pegeek tools

    Invasive Plant Work by Zen Sutherland CC BY NC SA This is not my first sharing on the use of Screencasts and autoCrat as part of the #Physed teacher’s toolkit.  But I thought I would share some screencasts of my latest autoCrat journey as I have been asked about it a lot recently on Twitter. I now use Quickcast as my screencast tool, it is easy to install (on my Mac) and is very quick to set up and go.  I can only cast for 3 minutes and this is perfect as I can say what I need to usually in that time frame.  The screencasts are saved online so…

  • Google,  Teacher Reflection,  Technology in PE

    Using autoCrat to create Summative Grades for students – magic!

    I love that PE and Technology are coming together, there is such a great host of Google scripts that can enhance our feedback to students and parents.  I believe that if I am assessing and recording it (iPad using Google Drive) then the students really should get to see it and understand what I am doing and so how they are doing/did. Inspired by @PENathan‘s Nathan Horne and his sharing of how to use Google Spreadsheets and Conditional Formatting, I have decided to run a little tutorial on how I use @astillman’s autoCrat script to mass produce individual student summative assessment pdf’s for sharing with students and parents, from Google Spreadsheets.…