Engrade Usage

Wow. I am using an inte-grade pro program at my school that my district paid for. It is not user friendly, not like this site. I found that I can add assignments, give a description of what I would like to have done, and add for what day they are due. I also really liked the ability to mark when an assignment is not turned in and the fact that parents and student can themselves go online and look this information up. It saves me time as a teacher from having to take a phone call, look back in my lesson plans and then try to explain to parents what their student has been missing. It also keep track of when a student is absent so I do not mark the assignment missing when in actuallity the student was absent.

It also keeps information clear, concise, and neat. I can even use this for when a student needs to recheck what they have to do for an asignment as they may have forgot.

This would be very useful for all classroom teachers and it doesn't cost the district anything. Also, parents would like the ability to be able to chech grades before the all impending report card comes out and they find out their child is not doing very well. They can also check to see if their child is handing in homework. Check it out....Engrade

I can also add a grade book for each subject or class, and I can leave comments for each student.

Assignments 1 to 3 of 3
Student	ID	Grade	Per	Hyperbole	personification/alliteration	Simile/metaphors	Add New Assignment
Devin Blue	7893	0	0%			M
Collin Ferrel	1236	100	100%			100
Cody Garigan	5678	0	0%			M
Tom Houseman	9012	100	100%			100
Aaliya Jamest	3456	0	0%			M
Tony Jasper	1234	80	80%			80
Nick Penn	7890	100	100%			100
Jose Smith	8937	0	0%			M
Average / Points Possible				/ 25	/ 100	47.5 / 100

This will also average the grades for me and I can allow fo rthe lowest grade to be dropped for me. What a time saving grade book. I can determine how much home works, quizzes, or tests are going to be weighted. It's awesome. I dont really have any reason to not use this. I almost want to use this through out my school year and then when grades are due just copy and past them. This works so much easier. Thanks Dr. S, you have saved me so many headaches!!!!!:)

Voicethread

For class we needed to create a digital story and I chose voice thread to do this. Last week I was to use a movie on line source to do the same thing. Unfortunately, I have a mac and was unable to create a digital story. When I did finally use imovie for mac I was then unable to load it anywhere, even on YouTube.

When using voicethread for my digital story I was trying to extend my lesson on imagery with my students. This was my first time using voice thread and I found it to be fun. I still have yet to learn how to load this to my HW (home work link). I also was trying to play some music in the background but was unsuccessful. With practice I think I can get it. I would like to use this in my classroom for my students to create digital stories in groups.

I also loved the quiz on collaborative VS coopertive in our on line class. This was very interactive and it showed me what I needed to re-learn and what I did know. It was fun and was much better than taking a paper and pencil test or quiz.