Taskstream final assessment

INTASC	Standards (criteria)	Examples & Support	ND / Met
4.13	The candidate knows how to enhance learning through the use of a wide variety of materials as well as human and technological resources (knowledge).	CA-4.13 -> In this course I have learned about the benefits of working together in virtual environment. With my group, we worked on Google Reader I have reflected on my own understanding of web 2.0 and have used and worked with at least 2 web2.0 tools. Here’s a link to my favorite web2.0 tools.	Met
6.35	The candidate demonstrates proficiency and appropriateness in utilizing a variety of media communication tools to enrich learning opportunities (skill).	CA-6.35 -> I went to the OTEN conference. There I learned about different technologies that can be used to enrich learning opportunities. After the conference, I used my cell phone to make a Yodio on this conference. I posted about this on my blog. I also used Screenr and Google Presentations to make a multimedia video on Piaget's Sensorimotor Stages of Development.	Met

Analyzing Student Data in a Spreadsheet

I this sheet, you'll find collected the test data from a range of rather famous students. I have attempted to make some sense of it all.
First, the raw data after sorting by average.

And here's the students' improvement in test scores shown in a chart. 

It's interesting to see that all the students' test scores have improved. Whatever the teacher is doing, he/she might want to continue that. Except for Katherine, all the scores show a steadily improvement. Some students lose a point or 2 at some point, only to regain them in later tests. Katherine is the exception. Katherine scores remarkably high on test 8. She also shows the highest total improvement over the last 5 tests.
All in all, there doesn't seem to be a clear pattern in the improvement of the students. Some students show very little improvement overall.

So far, this is my least favorite of the Google tools. I'm fairly proficient with Microsoft Excel and thought that I could crank this out pretty quick and easy. Not so. Many shortcuts that I use in Excel don't seem to be a part of Google sheets. Sheets are slower and less user friendly than Excel. I guess I'll be uploading from Excel until Google improves the sheets. 

Piaget's Sensorimotor Stages of Development

Last Monday, Heather, Jeff and I made this presentation using Screenr and Google Presentations:




I had only heard of what one might do with Screenr and I didn't have a Twitter account, but we thought that this would be the best way to do our presentation. The alternative would have been to project our presentation in class and take a video of that while we narrated. Too many things could have gone wrong in that, with valuable time lost. Also, the end product would not have looked as good as what we created with Screenr. 
It took me about 3 minutes to create a Twitter account and figure out how to use Screenr. This shows to me the intuitiveness (is that a word?) and ease of use of web2.0.
I would say that this could be extremely useful in a classroom. An instructional video that actually looks professional is quite an asset.
All in all it wasn't a very steep learning curve for me, but I can only say that I'm very happy to now have this tool in my toolbox. Too bad I had to create a Twitter account to use it. I feel like a twat now.