Week 3 Essential
Question: What technology tools can I use to manage, track, and differentiate
student progress in my classroom?
There were quite a lot of tools to explore this week, and
yes they were all new for me. I
decided to focus on two tools that I might apply to help best meet needs of my
classroom or a project that is set up to be group learning, Wiggio and Math
Pentagon.
Wiggio is a free online group organizational tool. Use Wiggio to manage your group with tools
such as:
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File upload and sharing – files can be accessed
and edited by your group members
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Schedule meetings – set up conference calls,
virtual meetings, and chat rooms
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To Do Lists – acts as group talk manager to
assign tasks to individuals in your group, set due dates, etc.
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Wiggio Poll – create polls to gather opinions,
take a survey, in T/F, multiple choice, or open-ended forms.
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Events – hold a meeting or invite people (can
also be combined with polls)
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Message Utility – Send messages through text or
emails, ability to record an audio and send.
To sum it up, Wiggio is an expert all in one tool for group
collaboration. There are other tools
available online that work better for specific tasks, but as a whole, all-in-one
place tool, Wiggio save you time and there is no more jumping between different
apps.
More information about Wiggio can be found at:
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If I had iPads for students in my classroom, I would find
that there are many math apps available, but one in particular to meed needs of
your students in your classroom or at home is Math Pentagon. With Math Pentagon you can:
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Practice Real Math Problems On Your iPad.
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Middle school math teachers: supplement your lessons with an
array of practice problems. This app provides math worksheets organized by
specific topics to make it easy for you to choose the problems you want to
assign. Students can practice, scribble, solve and learn math all by
themselves.
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Math !!! by Math Pentagon has one of the largest collection of
Math worksheets on iPad. It is a structured math learning program that engages
students by letting them practice math worksheets, complete exercises &
assignments on iPad. Teachers can capture student performance data, review and
understand student progress - thereby saving time, paper, money and enhancing
productivity.
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This app covers several Math topics for Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade
6, Grade 7 and Grade 8. The course content includes Algebra, Geometry,
Statistics, Decimals, Fractions, Percent, Ratios, Proportion, Trigonometry,
Arithmetic and more.
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