tip #4: check for understanding

In a blended learning environment, it is imperative that you:

• Provide formative assessments in order to check for understanding throughout the lesson.
• Give immediate feedback to students.
• Have clear assignment expectations with quality rubrics, when needed.

1. Exit Tweet: Ask students to briefly summarize what has been learned.

2. Polling: Use tools like Google or Microsoft Forms, Kahoot, Quizizz to capture student responses to a question.You can also use Office Mix‘s built-in question feature.

3. Classroom Response Tool: Use Socrative, Kahoot, Plickers, GoFormative.com, or Zipgrade.com to get insight into student learning in real time or a video with EdPuzzle.com.

4. Flipgrid: Flipgrid.com - Flipgrid is a free, fun, and easy way to have a video chat. It is a great way to get student feedback while incorporating student voice. There is an iOS and Android app.

5. Recap: Recap - Like Flipgrid, Swivl's Recap provides teachers with new, creative ways to gather evidence of student thinking using video.

6. Additional “Rev Up Your Review” Strategies: These are shared by Lisa Monthie (@lisamonthie) in the #tceachat Voxerchat:

• Low Tech strategies include 3-2-1 Summary, Careless Clueless via Lead4ward, Instagram, QR Codes MatchUp, Stars and Steps Chart, Twitter Ticket
• Tech strategies include using Flippity, Plickers, Quizizz, Wizer.me (see Lisa’s example), Ducksoup.us, and Google Translate.
• TurboNote is a tool that allow you to take notes off to the side of the video.