This week we created a CMS assessment online for students. With teaching kindergarten, I always find that you have to search for ways to really make it beneficial for the students to use. I took one of the websites that I use daily in my classroom, and created a grouping of games for the students to play. The website tracks points and scores and emails them to me when a student is done. I am able to see how a student is doing, and what they are struggling on. With that link, I embedded it on to Edmodo. I liked Edmodo for the fact that I can send messages out, and polls to collect answers. However, with teaching kindergarten, I am going to get more parent interaction, than student. Creating links and activities for students to connect to is a wonderful way to use this CMS in the classroom. It allows for me to have a record book of what students have accomplished, along with also having a cut off period to use. Here is my screencast of how I connected the assessment.
Your choice of using both Edmodo & PowerMyLearning is a simplistic choice for your kindergarten students. They both appear to be user friendly for kindergartens. The assessment, One Fish, Two Fish supports teachers' goal of allowing students to practice the math concept of counting 1 to 1 with various tools. Lastly, I love that the assessment tool tracks students progress.
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