Unit 3: Assessment Using Google Slides
ETAP 623 Spring 2021 (Byrne) | Joe Ansalone's Portfolio Page
Pre-Requisites
- Have a basic understanding of WHAT Nearpod is and how it can be beneficial to assessing student learning.
- How to use and navigate Google slides from our previous mini course lessons
Lesson Objectives
- Viewers will become familiar with applications such as Nearpod which can enhance the overall assessment experience for students and teachers.
- How to link Nearpod to slides..
- How do students interact with Nearpod
- Creative ways to assess students by using Google slides.
Articles for this Unit
File:Strategies for Assessing Students Remotely Tech & Learning.pdf
What Is Nearpod
Nearpod is a website and app-based digital tool that lets teachers create slide-based learning resources that are interactive for students to engage with and learn from.
Nearpod can also use gamification of information to make learning more engaging and fun. It is also built to work well with lots of pre-existing tools, such as Google Slides, Microsoft PowerPoint, and YouTube. Teachers can easily import media to make a lesson quickly and simply using already existing resources.
Nearpod allows teachers to create lessons from scratch or use the existing library of more than 15,000 lessons and videos, across grades, to get up and running quickly. The system also allows you to pull in videos from the likes of YouTube for easy integration with a quiz, for example. More on that below.
Cleverly, Nearpod works in a number of ways to support a teacher-led classroom, student-led remote learning, or a single screen-led presentation teaching mode. Crucially, whichever style is used, it can easily be integrated with Zoom to include all students, regardless of their location.
Assessment In Nearpod
“Assessment involves determining what the target audience has learned and it is carried out both formatively and summatively (Larson & Lockee, 2020 p. 196) This text from the works of Larson and Lockee, (Streamlined ID: A practical guide to instructional design) can most certainly be applied to the use of Nearpod as an instructional and assessment tool. The options for Nearpod are endless, the video provided below will show you the In's and Out's of how to assess in Nearpod.
Assessments can also hold several different purposes based on student goals and outcomes. The graphic below defines three types.
The biggest differentiator is whether or not the assessment is formative in nature (a continuous feedback loop) or summative (final outcome). Knowing these types and the corresponding definitions will help as we get into tools and strategies.
Polling for feedback
Using polls can be a great way to provide feedback in whole group settings. Polls can be done asynchronously, or synchronously but generally are posted when you have a whole group on a video call. Some platforms such as Nearpod provide built-in polling features, to assess large amounts of students at once based off the lesson or unit.
Collaborate Board
Collaboration boards allow students to contribute multiple perspectives that can be useful both in the classroom and remotely. In student-led mode they can go at their own pace, while in teacher-paced mode you can take time to pause and reflect or expand on points made, live. As you can see from the image below, this is a lesson on the Winter Olympics.. I posed a question "What was your favorite part of the 2018 Olympic opening ceremony". Students will now be able to write their own individual comment on the collaboration board for the entire class to see. This will incite discussion and students will have the ability to build off their ideas, in addition to reflecting upon what they wrote.
Virtual Reality/Virtual Field Trips
The use of virtual reality is also a nice addition as Nearpod works with VR headsets to allow students to explore an area, much like a school trip, only without a limit on distance. Listed below is a virtual reality image of the human body! This is used to show students what the circulatory system is and how blood is transported from parts of your body, using arteries, veins and capillaries. In addition, students can see the oxygenated blood (red veins) and deoxygenated blood (blue veins) traveling to the heart. Having a 360 degree virtual reality experience with resources like this can really open up a whole new world of class discussions for your students and yourself as the educator!
Activity #1 Assessment In Nearpod
Friends, please watch this Nearpod video.
Step #1 Watch the Video
- Pay attention to key points and emphasis on features of Nearpod
- Think about if this is an application that you would use for your classes
Step #2 Fill out the Google Form
- When you're finished watching the Nearpod video, please complete the google form.
- Use the information from this mini course to answer the form questions to the best of your ability
- Make sure you type in your email address before taking the "quiz"
- Follow the instructions that are provided on the Google form! Good Luck!
CLICK LINK BELOW FOR FORMS QUIZ
https://forms.gle/po2q4cGwCv7WPnqSA
Activity #2 Assessment In Google Slides
- This video will show you various ways assess students using Google Slides!
- Learners will see how simple and easy it is to use slides to assess students during a live instruction period
- Learners will see the importance assessment has on their class and student learners.
This or That
This or That is a great way to assess large amounts of students during live instruction. You give two choices to students THIS or THAT! Students will choice which choice they believe is the right answer and participate in a answer specific exercise, correct students will be awarded 1 point. This will help the teacher visually gauge to see if the students are understanding the information that you are presenting to them. This or That is very motivating to the students, they love to receive points for being correct and motivate themselves to get as many points as they can!
Personal Responsibility Model
This is one of my favorite assessments to use, because it gives the students the ability to grade themselves based on their effort in PE! Students will showcase either 1,2,3,4 fingers on the live stream and will discuss their answer with the class. 1 is considered NO effort and 4 is considered MAX effort. Keep in mind this is not about how WELL they preformed a task, its based on student effort. I found students to be very truthful when demonstrating their answers to the class. In addition this is a great way to segue into a closing discussion for the days PE class.
References
Edwards, L. (2021, April 23). What is Nearpod and How Does it Work? TechLearningMagazine. https://www.techlearning.com/how-to/what-is-nearpod-and-how-does-it-work.
Larson, M. B. and Lockee, B. B. (2020) Streamlined ID: A practical guide to instructional design. New York, NY: Routledge.
YouTube. (2018, August 20). NEARPOD ASSESSMENT TRAINING. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zP-jECmwpnE.