Formative assessment

In today's class, we've been talking about reliable and valid assessment that allows us to see the students' strengths and weaknesses. Some people have done a big effort when it comes to rubrics (a tool for a better approach in assessment). Some examples here:

• Avaluar per aprendre (Institut de Gurb): They share a collection of rubrics through the website
• Rubistar: A free website to create rubrics
• Corubrics: For GSuite members. Allows you to create rubrics, peer assessment...
• Neus Sanmarti. She's an expert in formative assessment. 

Source: https://www.slideshare.net/abg3/assessmentinadigitalworld

Online quizzes for assessment

Find here different websites to create online quizzes to assess the students as they have fun:

Google Forms: apart from many different tests, you can upload video or audio for listening comprehension

Socrative: gamified quizzes where you get instant feedback from the students, see a table with all the answers and focus on the mistakes, etc. To do at any time of the school year (level test, grammar, vocabulary...)

Plickers: students can take a test without any device, so it makes this website interesting in case of problems with the WIFI (free version up to 20 students!). It can be done on the first day of school or as reading comprehension

Source: abg3 Assessment and technology https://www.slideshare.net/abg3/assessment-and-technology-oup-webinar

Our class with virtual reality 360

Great... Isn't it? Do you want to give it a try?  Go to Camera Cardboard in Play Store and create your own 360º photos!

A journey to Google expeditions

Have you ever heard about Google Glass? Today we've learnt about Virtual Reality (VR). Using Google Glass students can experience the real world and interact with virtual items.

Google Expeditions app allows you to find many 360º scenes and guide the students on virtual trips.

I find Virtual Reality an ideal tool to work on both speaking and listening skills. Students could explain what they see, feel or experience. After that, we could ask them to complete a short test in Google Forms. If you search VR360 on Youtube you can find many videos that allow students to experience VR.

Below, my favourite Google expeditions:

1. Ancient Greece: it can be done in the 1st cycle of ESO as they learn about Greece history
2. Climb a First Ascent with Mike Libecki: to work with students of the 2nd cycle of ESO, where you introduce the topics of effort, strengths and weaknesses, fears and challenges  
3. Christmas Lights of London: to work before Christmas with the students of 1r and 2n ESO 
4. Celebrating America’s Diversity: to work at Batxillerat on the topic of diversity, gender equality, civil rights...

Source: https://bit.ly/2LAguhD

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Augmented reality in schools

Today in Abel's class we have learnt about Augmented Reality (AR) for educational purposes. If we have good connections in the school, we can add an extra ingredient in the classroom with AR, as students can see what it looks like any object, material... I find it very useful in science (the human body, the periodic table or even the planets become alive in the classroom) but also in English lessons (why don't we create an imaginary country with our students? They could bring their creations to life!).

Students can create AR objects through Quivervision (print any colouring page from the website), Blippar or HP Reveal.

Here, an image of a worksheet (a trigger or marker):

Below, what it looks like when students scan the markers (or triggers) with the smartphones:

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