My evaluation of tech tools and how I use them have become more critical over the last 3-4 years. When deploying tools, I am constantly thinking of where I am on the SAMR Model.
I constantly strive to introduce tools to students so that we are working in the M and R of SAMR.
I don't think the issue is with the tools themselves, but how I choose to use them.
Google Forms
I have used them in a variety of ways, but I think my more recent use of them took the tool to the next level. I created a rubric for each group presentation and students completed them at the end of the presentations. There were two multiple choice options and the last text box was for comments and feedback for the group. I then shared the spreadsheet with just that group of students. The next phase will be to have students discuss in groups the feedback received and how they can improve the presentation for the next time. Getting that activity to R would mean possibly videoing the students and having a global audience complete the rubric using the Google Form.
Piktochart
As a part of an activity through a grant we were awarded through YSA StateFarm Good Neighbor Grant, we used Piktochart to tackle perceptions of homelessness, hunger, poverty. We started in TOK under the umbrella of the Arts chapter to discuss color, sizing, text etc and its effectiveness on viewer perception. Students conducted research on 8 different subgroups and designed Infographics using Piktochart. After the drafts were completed, we sent them via email to our IB Visual Arts students who critiqued them. Students revised the infographics and we used part of the $ for the grant to print them in color and display them in a prominent hallway, during an assembly, during a technology conference, during our presentation on the GENC in November 2013, and down on the National Mall during Global Youth Service day in April 2014 as a part of the annual NYLC. Students and teachers from all over the world have seen this work on line and in person at NYLC. I would say that this activity achieved a R to the nth degree.
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