Quick Grading with QuickKey

Together with my third-graders (12/13y), I tested an innovative way to grade multiple choice quizzes today: QuickKey. I’ve come across quite a few applications like this one (e.g. ZipGrade); however, they’ve always been relatively pricey with a monthly or yearly fee, which my school wouldn’t have paid in a million years. The founders of QuickKey … Weiterlesen

Realtime Storytelling

Today I want to focus on a different method of introducing realtime storytelling in the English classroom. The internet (social media, specifically) offers an array of options to so. By using twitter, vine, instagram, youtube, flickr, etc. one can experiment a lot, and I’m sure students will find it very interesting to tell stories via … Weiterlesen