Juan O'Shea's Blog – October 2010 Archive (4)

Had a great class with year 5/6 using Cmap.

This an excellent tool for creating concept maps - we used it to introduce a unit on transport.

Checkout http://cmap.ihmc.us/

We are always evaluating ourselves and our lessons, today's PD is about how I used SurveyMonkey to formally evaluate myself last term.

Examples of Informal evaluation

• Lunch room discussions with teachers
• When speaking with your students, as a whole class or individually

Why you use it:

This is often done as part of 'Formative Assessment' - to see how you or your students are going so that you can…

I have some email etiquette PD for todays staff meeting - for more information see http://www.learnthenet.com/learn-about/email-etiquette/index.php.

The main points about email etiquette is:

• Clearly summarize your message in the subject line
• Don't use the CC (Carbon Copy) function to copy your message to everyone…