[IAEP] stat collecto activity

[Tomeu Vizoso]

On Thu, Nov 5, 2009 at 00:52, Caroline Meeks <solutiongrove at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi David,
> I think its a good idea. You might want to look into using Moodle to help
> create it. Moodle is good at collecting info from many students and giving
> it to the teachers in a form that is easy for them to use.
> One thing I noticed at GPA was that the 4th graders had a very hard time
> writing even one sentence about their work. Typing, spelling, writing
> sentence are all challenging still, and I'm really wondering how much
> reflection we will be able to get from the younger grades.  Although writing
> is always good, our goal is to have the students think about the work they
> just did so it would be good to have an alternative input where writing
> skills would not be an impediment.   It would be nice to have it easy to
> have an alternative of recording speech.
> I think Moodle may have a module that does that already. I have the Moodle
> book on using Moodle to teach foreign language on order.  We still have to
> get all our drivers to work and headsets for the students but maybe it will
> not be too hard. :)

Is this similar to http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Teacher%27s_Tools ?
(see the flash prototype).

I guess this would be most useful in server-less scenarios.

Regards,

Tomeu

> On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 9:13 PM, David Van Assche <dvanassche at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> The new google wave stuff made me think of a maybe interesting
>> activity that would be very easy to write but might be useful for
>> teachers to gain feedback from their students, while treating them
>> more as peers in the constructionist philosophy. The idea is, to have
>> a a multiple choice like activity that would ask students about their
>> experience of lessons.
>>
>> For example, lets say they have been learning algebra, the teacer
>> could get them to launch an activity that asks questions like with
>> multiple answers like:
>> The most difficult part to learn was a) blah, b) bleh,  c) bluh, The
>> most fun part was a)) glah b) gleh c) gluh
>>
>> What do u think would something like that be useful? The problem I see
>> is that the teacher would actuallly have o create the questions and
>> answers, so it might seem like too redundant. I guess the best way
>> would be for the teacher to get the students to create these quizzes
>> (for lack of a better word) would be very simple to create such an
>> activity. Would there be ebnough demand and usage of such ab activity?
>>
>> regards,
>> David Van Assche
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