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Formative Assessment
Els retocs finals// The Final Touch by licensed by Oryctes CC BY SA NC Formative assessment is forefront on my mind this year. Last year I was continually ebbing through a large amount of summative assessment which really made my life difficult and stressful and I think culminated in some of the hip and back issues that I had over the course of sitting and watching/grading over 500 student assessment films throughout the year (as well as all the paper work and the uploading of these grades to the ISIS program our school uses). I have looked at how I am going to do that over this year and how…
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Screen casting
I have been interested in screencasting and using what screen casts offer for a while but this year really decided that I would try and use them for a variety of analysis and flip-class room projects and then have used socrative to try and gather really anonymous feedback from students about whether they are using them. I tried screenr to begin with and have found this program to be mostly reliable and very easy to use. If you create an account it helps as you can then keep all your screencasts together allowing students to return to your stream multiple times. I have also used screencastomatic which has more mouse…