Go Pollock is a web based tool to gather feedback from students.
The teacher creates a set of questions for a quiz. When the class is ready, the teacher starts the session and can monitor the students as they go through the questions at their own pace.
Go Pollock could be used as an exit or entry ticket for the classroom, or other types of formative assessment.
Since it’s the first day of August, I figured it’s time to list 13 things to do before the first day of school. That doesn’t mean you need to do all of them, or even a majority of them, but hopefully there is one or two tips that you find beneficial. Do you have any…
In Paul Tough’s new book, he writes that the people who are best at engendering “noncognitive”—or character—abilities like grit in students hardly ever mention these skills in the classroom. It’s an observation that has won attention and admirers such as New York Times columnist David Brooks. But what has been left unsaid is how our…
By default, Chrome (and Firefox) tries to expand the tabs in the browser to accommodate enough of the title of the page so you can see it. Sometimes though, you don’t need the title. For example, your Gmail tab will have the Gmail icon and then the name of the label you are currently viewing…
One of my complaints with my new and improved Macbook Pro was battery life. As I’ve been investigating what I can do to help improve my time on battery, I’ve come up with two different approaches. One is a no brainer, dim the screen. The other is more painful. Switching to Safari. I’ve notice that Google Chrome…
I’ve used Polleverywhere a couple of times for presentations, and sli.do looks a little like Polleverywhere, but with a couple of nice additions. Sli.do bases the presentations on events, and each event under the free plan can have 3 polls, and up to 1,000 participants. But, moving past the polls, participants can ask questions and…
Earlier this year, France passed a labor reform law that banned checking emails on weekends. New research—to be presented next week at the annual meeting of the Academy of Management—suggests other countries might do well to follow suit, for the sake of employee health and productivity. A new study—authored by Liuba Belkin of Lehigh University,…