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 * Outline**

Resources page with links to tools Format pages and navigation similar to last year's ehancing.

Add a disclaimer to tools pages.

Intro email to participants (Cara will find draft from last year if possible and draft this one) Goal to email after 6/17 planning meeting via Vivian's access to ISTE prgram.
 * Twitter poll all participants at the conference not just our group (Carl's ideas)
 * Email to participants with survey for them (google form?)
 * Grade Level, content area, role in education
 * What's the great strength/barrier to formative assessment in the classroom
 * to what extent is it just another buzz word
 * Rate the value of formative assessment
 * why?
 * Rate your level of expertise with formative assessment
 * what's the most essential question you'd like us to address in this assessment
 * send them the wiki address
 * Open up the backchannel for questions at this point
 * Introduce ourselves
 * Get them excited and intrigued - keep it short!

(3- 5 min.) Introduction - **Scott starts introduction and in charge of backchannel** Introductions, provide url for wiki and backchannel discussion that will be open throughout the session. Participants will create one learning goal for this session and reflect on it later in the session. Once participants have accessed the wiki they will post in the backchannel questions, concerns, and/or where they would like additional elaboration, as well as concrete suggestions for how activities throughout the session could inform their professional practice. One member of the 4-person facilitation team will monitor the backchannel at all times during the BYOL and cue other team members to add backchannel submissions into the conversation.
 * Possibly use voice thread as a demonstration of using it for goal setting. - Vivian will make one with model goals (affective, cognitive and personal learning goals).
 * How each tool meets certain criteria written in the wiki.

(5 min.) Baseline Formative Assessment Data/Activate Prior Knowledge (Web based quiz) - **Vivian starts, she will brainstorm questions and get criteria for higher order thinking question rubric - look for one online - this will be available as a resource not something we actively use at this point, perhaps a variety of them (K-3, 4-8, 9-12).** Use Google form or an online survey creation tool to collect closed and open-ended responses regarding participants’ understanding of formative assessment. Display results instantly in an associated spreadsheet on projector and within wiki. Point out information in the wiki that elaborates how to construct formative assessments that assess learner’s “knowledge state” (Hunt & Pellegrion, 2002).
 * Pick all the attributes that are part of formative assessment (checkboxes)
 * Open ended explanation of why.
 * Closed and open ended responses.

(5 min.) Key Attributes of Formative Assessment - **Vivian and Cara (look at what we did for TIES workshop0** State goals of BYOL, introduce Popham’s (2008) definition of formative assessment and how technology can support its implementation. Introduce the idea that there is a pedagogy associated with technology-enhanced formative assessment (Beatty & Gerace, 2009), i.e. the tool is not the formative assessment, it is the means of conducting/facilitating the formative assessment.
 * Teacher - data applied to inform teaching
 * Student - data applied to inform learning and change strategies
 * Intentional - planned

(10 min.) Making Sense of Formative Assessment Data (rubrics, spreadsheets) - **Cara will lead and work with Vivian on questions rubric brainstorming** Participants will have the choice of using one or more rubric generator tools (one of which is demonstrated; others available via wiki) to create a rubric to assess their personal learning goal for this BYOL. Participants’ will be encouraged to explore additional rubric generators as time permits. Participants will be reminded to post questions/concerns that arise during the process in the backchannel. Facilitators will continue to move throughout the room and monitor the backchannel.
 * Checklist of how each tool meets the key attributes: teacher, learner intentionality
 * Please assess our questions in terms of Higher order thinking skills to see how we did throughout this session
 * Because these are traditionally text based, how can we add visuals - embed html code, insert once downloaded to excel,
 * Make sure our checklist model is in 3 methods: text, blended text and visual, and one is image primarily, one is audio (differentiation and accommodation)
 * These could be images in the wiki to demonstrate the concept

(15 min.) Formative Assessment - Checking Understanding That Can Inform Teaching (Online Quiz Generators) **- Scott** One facilitator will demonstrate the use of an online quiz generator. Based on their experience and skill level, participants will have the choice of creating a 5-question quiz using the demonstrated tool or one of several others identified in the wiki. Participants have the option to switch seats in order to take each other’s quizzes or explore another quiz generator. Three facilitators will circulate throughout the room providing ongoing support while the fourth facilitator monitors the backchannel. Participants will reflect in the backchannel about what they are learning about formative assessment and the pedagogy of technology-enhanced formative assessment and/or what still remains confusing, unclear, and their questions.
 * Create a 5 question quiz **[ Have a couple of tools available for people to use like Carl did last year]**
 * How teachers can have students create the questions and teacher can use the results as well as the questions the students ask as formative assessment. (Classrooms as Learning Communities by Chris Watkins and Carl's example of a teacher at Harumbee (sp?)) -**Vivian will type this up and add it to the page.**
 * Take the quiz or use the checklist to provide feedback on the nature of the questions.
 * In the backchannel ask participants to suggest ways to use this as a more constructivist activity
 * In the wiki have a video embedded on the value of students writing questions as formative assessment
 * If you finish early, use the rubric to evaluate the quiz questions you just made - higher order thinking skills
 * People done early could also try a second or third quiz tool.
 * Keep much of the "research" or "additional resources" available for others who finish early.
 * Keep much of the "research" or "additional resources" available for others who finish early.

(10 min.) Role of Metacognition in Formative Assessment - (poll) - **Carl** Participants will participate in a poll regarding their current understanding of the concept of formative assessment, parts that they would want re-taught or additional practice with, and one open-ended question regarding a next step that they will take to increase their understanding/use of formative assessment after the BYOL. Following the sharing of the poll results, participants will have the opportunity to create their own poll from those provided on the wiki. Facilitators will then model reviewing the data to inform future instructional practice.
 * Poll Everywhere
 * iVoted
 * PollDaddy
 * Ask them to use one of the tools so we don't overwhelm
 * Create a 1 question poll

(10 min.) Q & A/Final Thoughts Point out additional resources in the wiki and ask for questions and/or address selected questions. Additional responses to questions will be posted in the wiki following the session. We will use an active learning strategy to close the session by asking participants to reflect on their personal learning goal in a shared online space.
 * Voice thread as a follow up since it requires a login?? **Vivian**
 * lino.it is an alternative to wallwisher with an app for iPod/iPhone/iPad **Carl**

Remember to go through all tools and identify if computer only or if apps are available
Thank you for registering for Formative Assessment: Technology-enhanced approaches to increase student achievement (http://formativeassessment-technology.wikispaces.com) a BYOL session at ISTE 2011. We are so excited that you will be joining us. A Bring Your Own Laptop (BYOL) session is an opportunity to be a hands-on learner. Bring your laptop, an attitude of inquiry and exploration and be ready to jump in.
 * Laptop recommendations: enabled for wireless Internet access and more than one browser installed.
 * Following discussion and updates on Twitter use hashtag [|#faiste11].
 * More information about our session is at [].

In the meantime if you have questions or comments, be sure to contact us. We look forward to seeing you in Philly. Carl Anderson Cara Hagen Vivian Johnson Scott Schwister