Today’s tech snack can be found at the following url: https://www.noredink.com/
What is it and how does it work?
Noredink is a web-based service that that provides personalized, interactive grammar lessons for school students. What makes this service different than other services is that the grammar lessons/activities are created based on the individual student’s personal interests. How is that possible you ask? Well, first the teacher creates a free teacher account. After the teacher creates an account, he/she is able to create a class, add assignments, pretests, and/or quizzes. Teachers are then given a class code, which is what students will use to access the lessons. With the class code teachers will be able to track students’ progress, assign quizzes and assignments, and see class trends. The program has color-coded "heat maps" to track progress easily. When teachers create a lesson/pretest/quiz, they can select the subject matter, when it is due, which students get the lessons and how many questions are in each lesson. You can also see how the lesson will appear to students by clicking on the student view.
Students will need the class code to access the lessons their teacher has assigned. Before students are allowed to access the lessons, however, they must first state what grade they are in and then they get to select topics that they are interested in like sports, TV shows, musicians, and more. When students are practicing their lessons or are taking quizzes, the program will use their interests to generate the questions. The program provides differentiated instruction based on the questions students answer right or wrong. Students are given tutorials to help them correct their mistakes. Noredink will work on any Internet-enabled device including tablets, phones and ipads.
Delicious, simply delicious! The snacks keep getting better and better here at the café!