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=Providing Feedback - Chapter TWO= The instructional strategy providing feedback focuses on formative assessment for evidence of student learning. Technology makes it easier to give feedback on a student’s work immediately and by more than one person.


 * Word Processing Application**
 * Use Microsoft Word’s Track Changes, Insert Comment, Visual Thesaurus and Readability Scale features for teacher and peer feedback for student ease of editing and revisions. The students’ documents can be stored on a server in a shared folder for access.

Subscription-based intelligent instructional writing and tutoring programs: [|MYACCESS Vantage Learning]

[|eInstruction] [|EduGame] [|Promethean] [|Interwrite] [|Smartboard] Senteo response system [|ClassAct] [|Quizdom] Also don't forget about [|myUTIPS] Utah Test Item Pool Server. As well as Polls/Surveys information found in Chapter 1. There is also the BACKCHANNELLING that can be used with [|www.todaysmeet.com] and even more interesting [|www.coveritlive.com]
 * Data Collection Tools**
 * Engage students with Student Response Systems “clickers” to create a quiz to check student understanding before, during and after a learning unit. Be sure to evaluate all levels of skill within Bloom’s Taxonomy, from recall through evaluation.

[|Kathy Schrock Guide for Rubrics] [|History Teaching Rubrics]
 * Web Resources**
 * Continue to use rubrics for student feedback and scaffolding for student project and products.


 * Carefully and purposefully choosing online quizzes, games and simulations to provide immediate feedback for students which can positively affect student motivation, retention, transfer and improved skill levels.

[|iKnowthat] (K-6) [|Explore Learning] (5-12) [|UEN K-2 Student Interactives] [|UEN 3-6 Student Interactives] [|UEN 7-12 Student Interactives] [|Thinkfinity Online Interactives] [|BBC Skillswise] [|Quia Shared Activities] [|Brain POP] [|Brain POP jr]


 * Communication Software**
 * Provide timely, interactive and collaborative feedback to and with students.

[|Where Do I Begin with Web 2.0?]

[|Grade 2 collaborative blog example] [|Grade one], [|Grade 6 Science]- excellent tabs, [|2009 Blog Challenge], [|Grade 4]
 * Blogs** - literary discussions, poetry journals,

Digiteen Global Project and Flat Classroom Project wiki and [|Classroom 2.0 wiki] (for teachers) WIkispaces
 * Wikis** – create a collaborative and ongoing online group project,


 * E-mail** – ongoing feedback to students,


 * Instant Messaging** – after school support,


 * Video-Conferencing** – group conferencing with an expert