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Differentiating Learning Products for Student Choice
Marcia Gauvin - Woodstock and TPVS STEM
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A Learning Resource Site developed for the 2019
A Learning Resource Site developed for the 2019
WES STEM / WCSU PD
WES STEM / WCSU PD
Marcia Gauvin
Marcia Gauvin
Student Choice Equals Student Voice.
Student Choice Equals Student Voice.
When students have choice, then they have a greater investment in any new learning.
When students have choice, then they have a greater investment in any new learning.
Below is menu of a VARIETY OF PROJECT choices. Click on any icon below for a set of lesson ideas.
Below is menu of a VARIETY OF PROJECT choices. Click on any icon below for a set of lesson ideas.
Digital Note Taking
Digital Note Taking
Click on any icon below for different subject lesson ideas.
Mind map ideas with a diagramming tool.
Most are free with three free mind maps per student.
Google Docs Individual or Collaborative
Texts or Tables
Unlimited with school account
Padlet: Digital Sticky Notes
Gifs, Videos, Photos, Audio Recordings, Drawing Tools
This is a free site with three free padlets per student.
Google Slideshow Presentations
Videos, pictures, text, transitions, auto scroll, etc.
Unlimited with school account
Videos and Ebooks
Videos and Ebooks
Click on any icon below for different subject lesson ideas.
Book Creator
Book Creator
WES has 20 paid accounts set up on the ipads in the library.
SeeSaw
SeeSaw
WES has paid accounts set up for K-4th Grade. See Marcia or Katie to learn more.
WeVideo -
WeVideo -
WES has paid accounts set up for 4th through 6th Grade. Free accounts are also available.
Explain Everything
Explain Everything
This is a free graphic program where students can record their explanations.
Student Blogs, Sites, and Portfolios
Student Blogs, Sites, and Portfolios
Click on any icon below for different subject lesson ideas.
Google Blog
Google Blog
Students can easily create a blog - a running tally of their learning by clicking on the blog icon in the Google Apps.
Google Sites
Google Sites
Public or private websites to create learning products or portfolios
Google Slides
Google Slides
as Student Portfolios to keep track of their learning in any class.
Wakelet
Wakelet
Digital Quizzes and Multimedia Tools
Digital Quizzes and Multimedia Tools
Click on any icon below for different subject lesson ideas.
Students can use Google Forms to write quizzes for each other on their topics of study - demonstrating their learning by writing questions and answers.
Scratch is an online block-based coding site that allows students to create animated games, stories, or quizzes.
Flipgrid is a social learning platform that allows educators to ask a question, then the students respond in a video. Students are then able to respond to one another, creating a “web” of discussion
Students can use a screencast to create a video to "talk" their audience through their document, slideshow, or other product.
More Multi-Media Tools
More Multi-Media Tools
Instructables is a website specializing in user-created and uploaded do-it-yourself projects, currently owned by Autodesk. ... Users post instructions to their projects, usually accompanied by visual aids, and then interact through comment sections below each Instructable step as well in topic forums.
Canva is a multimedia design platform that allows users to create social media graphics, presentations, posters and other visual content. It is available on web and mobile, and integrates millions of images, fonts, templates and illustrations.
Voicethread is a multi-media platform that uses images, videos, and audio recordings for instruction or learning
Google Classroom is a classroom management tool that allows you to assign work to students It is almost unlimited in its uses, and can be used during snow days and quarantines.
Rubrics for Evaluating Student Learning
Rubrics for Evaluating Student Learning
and Student Self-Evaluation Forms
and Student Self-Evaluation Forms
Below is a link to a Student Choice Matrix that demonstrates the SAMR rubric of learning -
Below is a link to a Student Choice Matrix that demonstrates the SAMR rubric of learning -
(click on the link for COPPA and CIPA compliance overviews)
(click on the link for COPPA and CIPA compliance overviews)
I hear and I forget.
I hear and I forget.
I see and I remember.
I see and I remember.
I do and I understand.
I do and I understand.
... Confucius
... Confucius
with questions or for more information.
with questions or for more information.
Thanks for using this PD resource site by Marcia Gauvin.
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