Oct+MS+Meeting

=October Collaboration Meeting=

=**Bell Ringer - What are some ways you currently do formative assessments in your classroom?**=

=**Agenda**= Using the Activotes for Assessment Arranging Time with Karen Follow up Session on Core Tools Take Survey November Workshops December Workshops

=New Learning - Sharing of Ideas= Formative Assessment - Assessment FOR Learning
 * Teachers can adapt instruction
 * Students can use evidence to manage their own learning
 * Occurs while there is still time to impact instruction and learning

Summative Assessment - Assessment OF Learning

Marzano's Strategies
Providing Feedback Reccomendations for Classroom Practice
 * Using criterion-referenced and explanations- specific feedback about their learning as compared to a performance standard or learning goal vs. Norm-referenced feedback- ranks performance relative to other students
 * Use feedback from assssments
 * Engaging students in peer feedback
 * Asking students to self assess
 * Technology That Works Wiki
 * [|T4 Technology Application for Marzano]

[|Activote Userguide] [|Activote Quick Start Guide] - Dawn - Kathy - Kathy - Rob

=Steps to Finding Voting Resources in the Activ Library=
 * 1) Open the Resource Library and choose Shared Images > Lesson Building Tools
 * 2) Click on ACTIVote Question Layouts and drag onto your flipchart.
 * 3) Write a question above the layout, enlarge the layout as necessary, and fill in your answers. You have now created a multiple choice question that can be used with the ACTIVotes during class.
 * 4) Sometimes you don’t have a question prepared when you would like to use the ACTIVotes. Get a fresh page and write your questions and answers on the blank page. You can create questions on the fly and attach the ACTIVote results to the page.

Steps to Find Question Master in Activstudio

 * Main Menu/Activote/Question Master

How to export Voting Results to Excel

 * Main Menu/Flipchart/Export/Activote Results/XLS(Excel)
 * [[file:pre-post assessment post data.flp]]

=Collaboration Time=

[|Mr. Finkill's American Cultures Site] [|Viva la Historia Blog] [|Team Jupiter's Voicethread] - Bonnie

=News you can Use= Potential Promethean Users Conference - Late April/Early May PETE & C Update [|Themes on Promethean - Halloween Harvest] [|Halloween_Centers.flp] [|Halloween_Countdown.flp]

===ACTIVTIPS for Voting [|Creating Question Pages] [|Making a Scratch Card] [|Pull Out Words] [|Generating Discussion] [|Question and Answer] [|Sharing Your Opinion]===