Interactive whiteboards are a fantastic tool. Below is a video of my colleagues and I discussing how one brand of whiteboards ("Mimeo") works:
Teaching Moment: Interactive Whiteboard Demonstration from Aimee Smith on Vimeo.
Also, here is a link to the video on Vimeo, the website used to condense this video into a viewable size:
Vimeo Whiteboard Video
Tuesday, November 15, 2011
Friday, November 4, 2011
Google Sheets: Charting Raw Data
This was a good experience. After watching a few brief tutorials, I was able to quickly transfer data to a new spreadsheet, analyze it by finding averages, and then graph a growth trend. Plus, it was easy to embed the link below so that others can view it.
Click below to view:
Sheet and Chart
Here are the trends I observed:
Click below to view:
Sheet and Chart
Here are the trends I observed:
- All students had a considerably better score on test 10 than on test 6.
- Most students improved their score with each test. The exceptions to this are Jason, Katherine, Walter, and Queen.
- Katherine realized the greatest improvement from test 6 to test 10.
As a result of these observations, I'd do several things in the classroom:
- I'd send Katherine a letter congratulating her on being the "most improved player."
- I'd personally congratulate each student on their overall improvement in a discrete way, such as by attaching a note of congratulations to homework I returned to them (so as not to embarrass them in front of their peers).
- I'd give each student a graph showing their personal achievement from test 6 to 10 and then administer a survey with the following questions:
- What helped you the most to improve your scores from test 6 to 10?
- Was any one test harder than the others?
- If your test scores didn't improve with each test, what do you think was the cause?
- What would have helped you to learn better?
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