Open-Ended Responses on the iPad
It is so important for students to write open-ended responses! Whether they are responding to text, writing about a picture, or recoding ideas, students learn how to grapple with ideas and put thoughts into words by writing open-ended responses.
Of course, lugging piles of responses back and forth to school can be tough. This is why I'm enjoying experimenting with student responses on the iPad. Through Frolyc and Activity Spot, students and teachers can write and read open-ended responses from anywhere.
The first step is to create an activity. You can include text and video if you like. You could also just make a single-page activity.
Once you have your pages set up, you will type in your prompt. You can add a picture as well. In my example below, you can see that students are writing about a body of water.
Once you publish the activity to the iPad, you can assign it to students. Students can interact with the activity and try out all of the features.
This is what the open-ended response screen looks like for students.
They can click on the image to see a larger version if needed.
After they have written, you can see their work back on the text assignment page. Simply click "View Student Performance".
You will see students who have completed the activity. Then, you can see what they have written.
I love this response and how it asks more questions. What great information for me as a teacher!
The next step will be adding features for rubrics and feedback. What kinds of feedback would you like to see? How would you like to respond to these responses?