Joshua Ng LIS568

Class Dojo is a tool for teachers to give points (or subtract points) to students based on their performance in class. It also allows parents to connect to the class to view progress and/or what is happening in the classroom on the class’s story. A few teachers in my school used to use Class Dojo to monitor work habits and behavior. My school assesses students on five work habits in addition to academic scores: homework completion, classwork completion, readiness, participation, resilience. Class Dojo was a good tool to tally points towards those work habits. One of the reasons I discontinued use of Class Dojo for my classes is mostly because of the multiple sites we were having students and families log into and use. My school uses our own Google Domain, which allows parents to view assignments and announcements through Google Classroom. Our grading system is also online – JumpRope, which all grades are posted as well as messages or comments for parents. The last ti...

Quizlet  is a website that provides a virtual classroom for teachers to interact with students by posting created flash card decks and tracking student progress. Students can join a created class via a link. From there, they will have access to any decks that teachers post to their class. More than flash cards, there are diagrams that help to connect terms to pictures and labeled diagrams. There are even match activities to help students visualize images. As a teacher of many students with disabilities, the diagrams aspect of Quizlet appears to be most useful. I have many students that would benefit from having pictures and/or other diagrams attached to terms and definitions instead of the traditional word and definition. The paid version provides a flipped classroom by allowing teachers to track students’ progress. A subscription also allows for advanced and unlimited diagram creation, as well as adding audio to live games. I can see myself using Quizlet becau...

Problem-Attic is a great resource for teachers to use to create assessments that are directly aligned to state and/or common core standards. It allows me to choose questions from old standardized exams to prepare and assess students. I have used Problem-Attic before for exams and think it is very easy to use. Each question stands alone and allows me to pick only the questions I want to use for an assessment. All questions are separated by topic, so I do not have to spend the time looking through each year’s exam for questions specific to the assessment topic (although, they also have exams sorted by year). Problem-Attic does not only include multiple choice questions, but also short-answer or open-ended questions. This is especially helpful as it provides the full range of question types that students will find on state assessments. One aspect of preparing students for state exams is practicing how to read different types of questions. Problem-Attic also allo...