Formative Tips & Tricks Pt. 5

nicole · January 22, 2018, 9:57pm

Happy Monday Formative Community!

I am so excited to announce that I will be hosting the Tips & Tricks session this week with Kelly Allgood!! @kallgood is joining me this Wednesday, January 24 at 1:00pmPST/4:00pmEST all the way from Australia!! We will be live on via Google Hangout on Air and would love some company

If you would like to be a guest on the Hangout on Air, please just message me (Nicole) in the Community Center and I will send you an invitation. You can also check out the session live or later here: Formative Tips & Tricks Pt. 5 - YouTube.

We can’t wait to hear what you think of the session! See you all soon

michael.lutz · January 23, 2018, 6:57am

I won’t be joining live but am going to watch it later. I’ll send the warmest greetings to Australia!

nicole · January 23, 2018, 10:32pm

Thanks Michael!! Let us know what you think

Randal_Belisle · January 24, 2018, 9:24pm

My colleague and I am watching. We are presenting Goformative to our school district’s teachers next Wednesday.

kallgood · January 25, 2018, 12:08am

I had so much fun! Nicole, you are amazing to present with, you have so much energy and enthusiasm!

nicole · January 25, 2018, 12:32am

Thank you so much for being willing to host with me Kelly! I feel exactly the same way…and you taught me something really cool today with the color thresholds and feedback Can’t wait til the next time!!

nicole · January 25, 2018, 12:36am

Awesome Randal!

Thanks so much for watching! And for presenting Formative to your district’s teachers next Wednesday

Did you request Swag for your presentation? Let me know if there is anything I can help with as far as your presentation is concerned too!

Thanks again for tuning in @Randal_Belisle!

Nicole

michael.lutz · January 25, 2018, 6:12am

Thank you Kelly @kallgood, well done!

@nicole I really love the product update section!

nicole · January 25, 2018, 4:34pm

@michael.lutz Thank you!!! I am so glad you like the product update section!!! And Kelly did a fantastic job…I’m always in awe how innovative our educators are

Thanks again for tuning in and for your feedback Michael!!

tricia.mintner · June 17, 2018, 3:57am

I love your enthusiasm Kelly! I use color coding as a form of feedback to the students as well.

I set each problem as 1 or 10 pt so I can color code my feedback as well. Red means that the computer has graded it and the answer doesn’t match the keyed answers exactly. I toggle the score to 0.3 or 3 to code it orange… wrong, but feedback was given. Yellow (0.5 or 5) means they are on the right track, but they need to tweak their answer a bit to get it to green. My green range usually runs 0.7 or 7 up to 1 or 10. Students feel good as long as the bubble turns green.

My students don’t like seeing red and they are quick to let me know if their problems have been on red too long. Once I see it, I change it to orange or yellow, and they work hard to get it to green. If I’m giving live feedback during a work session, I will call out something like, “Feedback is done on #4.” So students know to check (and possibly refresh their screens) to view the feedback. It’s exciting (and frustrating at times) when students hare hollering at me to grade problem #X. I love that they want to change their answers to get more points. The color-coding helps them know how close to ‘on track’ they were from the start.