Source: Formative – Intervene in the moments that matter most.
Formative is a free service for performing formative assessments in your classrooms. The assessments take place in real-time, and can be completed on any device. The questions are not limited to multiple choice. They can also be short answer, drawings, or student submitted images.
Formative is a free service for teachers and students.
Free ebooks from NASA. Source: NASA e-Books | NASA NASA has a multitude of eBooks available, cover aeronautics and space travel. Every ebook I checked was available in PDF, but several were also available in .MOBI for use on Kindle devices and .EPUB for other ebook readers and portable devices.
Story Wars is a collaborative online workspace where stories are written, one chapter at a time, by different authors. This website is great for two reasons: 1. Loads of books, and 2. The ability to create your own. Unfortunately, the quality of the books vary, so you’ll want to vet any stories before recommending to…
Source: One Page Dungeon by watabou One Page Dungeon is exactly what the title says, it creates a dungeon map all on one page. The dungeon is created with a random name, subtitle, and various objects placed in the rooms. This tool could be used as a starting point for stories. For example, in picture…
This week at ISTE Google announced Quizzes in Google Forms. It adds the ability to automatically grade quizzes in Google Forms, as long as the questions are multiple choice, checkboxes, or dropdown. The other types of questions are not supported. To create a Quiz in Google Forms, start a new form. Click on the gear…
I guess I’m pretty old school when it comes to bookmarks. Although I still use browser bookmarks, I also use Delicious to store my bookmarks. Delicious is an online service that allows you to quickly save your bookmarks. But if that’s all it did, it would be pretty lame. It also lets you tag your…
Drafts 4 – Quickly Capture Notes, Share Anywhere! for the iPhone and iPad is relatively expensive at $9.99, but if you do a lot of work from your iOS device then you will find it to be totally worth it. On my iPhone, this app is in the toolbar at the bottom, that’s how much I…