The next step - Self grading quizzes in google docs (google drive)

Once I played around with google forms a little bit, I found the collaboration with the students working,  I was asking myself how I could benefit even more - well... how about tests that do the marking for you by themselves.

One thing I know is that I am far too impatient to set up things like that myself. Thing two is that teachers are always short in time - how can that be? :)


So I used the possibilities of google to find this potential use of google forms cum google drive:

Self Grading Quiz within Google Forms from j3pr0x

Problem is that google docs does not exist anymore. But its ressources are still available somewhere in the depths of the www. Don't ask me where, but I found this side, that will give you all possible templates you could have dreamt of till today. https://drive.google.com/templates?q=self+grading&category=7&sort=hottest&view=public# So have as much fun as I had checking out what is possible for my lessons with this. I would love to get some feedback from you out there on this.

The power of gmail - tests made of questions set up by your students - easy marks for you

You want your students to work collaboratively? You want useful results? You want to create even more possibilities with them?


How about students setting up a test for you about for example a movie you asked them to watch? You will be able to rate them on the quality of their questions - plus you are able to reuse them as a test in another learning group having watched the same movie.

This is how it goes - I stumbled over the extended new google drive functionalities.

Clicking on the forms button - see below:

Will open up a google form - you can use it to create questions - but also there is the possibilities to add collaborators like this:

Now you just invite your students via their email addresses and then they are able to add questions they find important to ask and being answered.

What a great way to create a quiz / test. Once they are finished you can send out the form to another group of learners and use their answers to rate their learning progress.

Should be quite easy to mark, if you get a spreadsheet filled with their answers, right?

Especially if you ask your students to create multiple choice questions.

Tried, worked and I will surely reuse it. Possibly those questions can be somehow imported into moodle quizzes - but not there yet.

Hooray - I am inspirational

This is how it started, my godchild Finja in Germany asking me to explain the ecosystem of a "hedge" to her.

How to do this being in Singapore, with her being in Germany?
Knowmia was my solution.

And here is how starting new stuff will reap you surprising results.

I made it to Knowmia's inspirational corner.

http://www.knowmia.com/content/InspirationCorner.

Thank you Finja for inspiring me to start this! :D

Making lessons available online

A new little toy added some extra possibilities to my lessons.

If I prepare powerpoints for my lessons anyhow, can't I use them to create online lectures as well?
Sure I did so by reusing them in knowmia. But this took me still additional time, hence I had to prepare those lectures once again.

With a new spectacular toy I am able to create lectures out of my lessons straight.

Some advantages that are based on student feedback:

• lectures are available online for preparation of exams.
• absent students can easily catch up.
• students love to contribute to those "online products

How does it work?

You put your iPhone in the SWIVL, you wear the SWIVL remote (marker) on your collar and you are able to start recording the lecture parts out of your own lessons.

This is the short overview:

 

And this is an example - actually the first lesson, that I recorded with it (chemistry lesson conducted in German):

Der Kalkkreislauf - chemische Gleichgewichtsreaktionen in der Natur

Knowmia Lesson - Das Löslichkeitsprodukt

Die Oxidation von Alkoholen am Beispiel von Ethanol und Essigsäure

Eine 90 Minuten Unterrichtseinheit:

Einstieg mit Youtube Video zur Herstellung von Sherryessig.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SqS2gZmgYoc


Dann Lehrervortrag bzw. knowmia lesson - Die Arbeitsblätter sind als material zur Knowmia Lesson hinzugefügt.



Anschließend Arbeitsblätter zur Übung - Ermitteln von Oxidationszahlen. Am Ende Lernzielkontrolle