USING ONLINE SURVEYS AND QUESTIONNAIRES FOR ASSESSMENT – GOOGLE FORMS AND SURVEYMONKEY

These are great for:
• Baseline assessment – prior knowledge
• End of section assessment – summative assessment of what they know
• Mid-project assessment to see if learners know enough to start their product

Google Forms
1. You find these in Google Drive/Google Docs. You might have to join Google Drive but it is free. 2. Create a FORM
3. Make the first Question – What is your name? – so you can track each participant’s answers
4. Keep adding questions – a good variety of question-types is best – multiple choice, comment, check boxes, etc.
5. Save and SHARE – you can e-mail it to as many people as you like.
6. At the bottom of the page you will see the link to your survey – copy that and paste it into your project plan in Section D. Don’t lose that URL!!
7. When people answer, their answers are automatically collected on a spreadsheet – click on the name of the survey in your Google drive docs and you will go to the spreadsheet.

Surveymonkey
1. Go to www.surveymonkey.com and sign in. Again, it is free.
2. Create a survey – they will give you suggested questions, but ignore those.
3. Select a type of question – this is more flexible than Google Forms – eg you can rank from most favourite to least favourite, or put things in order.
4. After each question, add another one until you have enough and then Finish.
5. When you SHARE it will give you a URL. Don’t lose it!! Paste it into your project plan in Section D.
6. When people do the survey, they can go to Analyse results to mark their own work.
7. You can collect the results and see how they are doing by clicking the Collect results tab.

Here are two URLs for surveys you can try

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewformformkey=dEsyYXVUbFowNHFkNTdGYjdnUTRBd0E6MQ

http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/ZRYQ5ZK

You will not be able to see the results as a participant, just do the quiz.

The Project Plan - Section A and B

The project plan is at the heart of your project - without a good plan you will just get lost.

You need to start filling in your project plans now, but you do not need to try and finish it all at once.  The project plan is your guideline for each stage of the project.

Section A: Don't forget to give your project a good title. 

Section B:  This section should underpin the rest of the project. 

 This section is critical

How to use box.net

You should have received an invitation to collaborate on a folder called UKZN PGCE.

Please click to accept the invitation.  You will then be able to create your folder in the box.

Click on NEW to make your folder and subfolders.

UPLOADING A FILE

When you have completed an activity and you are ready to upload it to the box, follow these steps.

1.  Open your folder on the Box and select the folder you want to save into

2. Click on UPLOAD to start uploading your file

3.  When prompted, browse to the file on your computer

4.  Once the file is uploaded you can edit, update  or delete it

Something for the Foundation Phase

I found a fantastic site with ways to help teach sight words.

Here is the link - I hope you enjoy it.

https://www.box.com/signup/collablink/d_137822832/769c305364ff1

Some notes on using the Microsoft Learning Suite

 

SONGSMITH

If you are a musician this programme will drive you mad!  The chords are random and don’t fit what is in your head.  If you are not a musician you will enjoy the fun of it!  Kids love it!

Load the programme

Write some words you want to sing – could be about anything – don’t get carried away with anything too lyrical or fancy.

Open the programme and select NEW SONG

You will see a screen where you can choose the style you want

Scroll to listen. Select the style you think fits your song and click next.

Choose the tempo and click finish:

Press the record button and when it says SING, start singing.

When you have finished, press STOP and it will play back to you.

If you like the song, SAVE,

If you don’t, UNDO and try again.

For a new song, press “SONG STARTER”

Other options:

·        Change the number of chords in the bar

·        Add an intro or ending off bar.

PHOTOSTORY

Select the pictures you want to use and put them into a folder. (This step is optional but it really makes life much easier)

Open Photostory and create a new story.

Step 1:   IMPORT pictures – you can do this one at a time or import all the pictures you are using at once.  Get the order right by pressing the left and right arrows on the screen.  You can also edit your pictures on this screen.

Step 2:  ADD A TITLE – Write what title you want to add and edit it  - font, colour and where you want it on the page.  Do this for each of your slides (or you can do it one slide at a time)

Step 3: CUSTOMISE MOTION – the programme will do this automatically but you can make your own changes – change the speed, change the starting and ending points, etc.

  

Step 4: COMPOSE AND RECORD NARRATION – write what it is you want to record and then record it (or you can get all the narration in first and record screen by screen later)

Step 5: ADD MUSIC – you can use music you have already on your computer or you can ask the programme to synthesise some for you.

Step 6: SAVE your Photostory.

Save it as a PROJECT if you want to come back and work on it later.  Save it for playback if you are happy with it.  This will save it as a .wmv file (Windows Media Video) which you can play on a computer (not an a DVD player).  You can resave it as a .flv file if you want to upload it to Youtube.

 

Project Ideas

Today we chatted about project ideas - there were a few of you who were looking at a project on Weather.

I found these resources on WEATHER while i was looking for something else - they are resources from the British Council.  Have a look at them

http://learnenglishkids.britishcouncil.org/en/fun-games/whats-the-weather

Digital Natives vs Digital Immigrants

We talked in our lecture about how all of you, and the children you will teach are digital natives, while my generation are immigrants to living with technology.

This picture shows it in clear detail.  I learnt a-apple, b-ball, c-cat, etc.