So, I got my thoughts together and created the rubric I have been using all year using the OMR font that Mark downloaded for me. Now I will be able to use it to mark my listening comp tests I give and it can be charted. All year, I have been charting the composite score. This program, should allow me to chart progress in individual categories. It will be great going forward next year, as I chart progress starting at the beginning of the year. I will play with it with my third and fourth quarter assessments to see if it needs to be tweaked, then I will be ready to run with it for next year.

forming habits and lots of wonderings

This is not a habit yet. I have to figure out the right homepage. I am leaning toward iGoogle, but if I do, then I need to play around with how to configure it. I also need to find the right time to read through the aggregator and then, do I want to blog right away? What do I do when I find something of interest? take notes? do I figure how to do a split screen and put notes in oneNote? who should I talk to about all this? who is at this point in their wonderings?

April 17

I wrote a couple comments to Andrea, but then they were lost in cyber-space. I spent an inordinate amount of time trying to figure out where they went. I still do not know. I had marvelous things to share with Andrea about things she is blogging about, but darn-it, I don’t want to re-think what I already thought!

formative assessments

Through my PLC and the training we have received all year on formative and summative assessments, I have worked on formulating a way to assess listening skills of my students. Where were they at the beginning of the year and do they make progress by the end of the year. I assess their progress at the end of each quarter and work toward their improvement during each quarter. The tools we are learning today will give me a tool to give the students feedback about their progress. To date, I have just kept their results in excell and have analyzed them on my own. It will be very helpful for me to have graphs to show them their individual progress vs the class progress.

Trying to navigate Google reader

Evidently, I have had Google Reader set up for a couple years - my children helped me find sits that would be of interest to me! Well, since I just now found it again today, I would say it has not been of much use to me. The trick will be to keep my reader on the Google homepage.