Rubrics, clickers, and Inspiration-Richard Smith

Technology based rubrics are a great help in assessment, not only for the student, but for the teacher as well.  Rubrics set a standard of what is to be expected and makes sure the students know exactly what the teacher wants the student to cover.  Sometimes the teacher leaves the assignment too broad and students dont get good grades because the teacher didn't specify what he/she wanted.  So any kind of technology based rubric is good to have for proper understanding.

Clickers are interesting devices, they make the classroom seem like a gaming environment, which could possibly help a lot of students these days because of the video games that they play.  Clickers are good because all students have a chance to answer, not only just the smart kid.

Inspiration is a great tool for core teachers, it can help students by allowing them to see graphs, charts, all the visual stuff for the visual learners in the classroom, with a lecture and the inspiration software it covers a lot of learners needs and seems pretty user friendly.  Kidspiration would be fun for the younger students to have in the classroom because of the younger age set up, it follows along with all the toys and games that students played with before school, and now they can continue the progression. 

Rubrics are essentials in the classroom for full understanding of an assignment and to let students know how you will be grading them, clickers would be fun devices to use and will majorly increase learning, and Inspiration would be great software to have for my middle school and high school students because of the visual and in depth aspect of the software.

-Richard Smith