Artifact: Create a formative assessment related to a learning standard. Post a link to the assessment or activity and standard in your blog. Explain the purpose of the assessment. Answer: How does your assessment provide students multiple opportunities to demonstrate understanding, practice concepts or self-check progress? How does the assessment allow you to assess student readiness for course content? How do the results of the assessment change your teaching plans or method of delivery? The assessment described in this post is a quiz over Mendel's laws of inheritance. The standard for this segment is Georgia's Biology Standard of Excellence SB3: SB3. Obtain, evaluate, and communicate information to analyze how biological traits are passed on to successive generations. a. Use Mendel’s laws (segregation and independent assortment) to ask questions and define problems that explain the role of meiosis in reproductive variability. After reviewing a module and some require...

Answer:  How does screen capture function in the online classroom? How would the integration of screen capture modify teaching methods? Screen capture and screencasting are an essential part of the asynchronous learning component of an online course. Through a screencast, instructors are able to create, curate, and deliver instructional segments to students enrolled in their courses. Whether it is a 2 minute "explainer video" on how to solve a math problem or a 10 minute video lecture on photosynthesis, screencasts are essential to online instructors delivering instruction. (They are also a way for you to become your own co-teacher! More on that later!) Creation is easy - I've been doing this since my student teaching days in 2011! New technology tools have certainly made this process even more streamlined. Because many people carry a cell phone or a smartphone, virtually everyone has access to a camera. Using a phone, one could quickly record a view of their compute...