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https://cirt.gcu.edu/teaching3/tips/effectivefeed This resource is an educational website.
 * Greg Burchard**
 * Effective Feedback in the Classroom Teaching Tips**
 * Rating 9/10**

Timing Amount Mode Audience and Content It is very well organized and easy to follow.
 * Description:** The resource offers an overview of why student feedback is important. Feed back gives direction, offers support, allows the student/trainee to feel engaged and may help with self-esteem. It also reviews that feedback should be individual and relevant for each student. The website then reviews in greater detail several variables Including:


 * Instructional Strategy:** This resource aligns with instructional strategy because it serves as a reminder to the instructors/trainers that learner should be student/trainee focused. It shhould be a tool that teachers can refer to every semester to stay on track regarding positve, effective dfeedback.


 * Nikki Stone**
 * Reinforcing Effort and Providing Recognition**
 * Resource:** Instagram – website and app
 * Rating 9/10**


 * Description:** As an art teacher, Instagram is a useful tool for posting both work in progress and final images. Access can be privatized so only those with access can view the images and offer feedback. Viewers have the option to click on a heart icon to like the work and/or add comments in the space below. Beyond having control over viewer access, Instagram gets a high rating from me because it’s easily accessible on phones with the app and online with the web site. Many students already have accounts.


 * Alignment with strategy:** This resource is a great way to reinforce effort and provide recognition through digitally displayed photos of artwork on an easy-to-use (and popular to use) app and website. Students can easily snap a quick photo of their work and upload it. Other students, friends, family, and instructors can then view the images and immediately give feedback that recognizes effort as well as comments regarding project status (what works/doesn’t work, what still needs to be done, critique, next steps, etc.)

Eric Daniel Reinforcing Effort and Providing Recognition Resources: Micropoll Website Rating: 6/10 Description:Micropoll is a website which, allows creation and posting of surveys. There a wide variety of formats available to administer surveys, including multiple choice, likert scales, image selection, open-ended response, and many other tools for gathering information. Using this program allows students to rate other students work, using the standard the teacher has selected. This may include using a rubric, or displaying the actual work that has been created. This allows students to receive feedback on their own work, as well as, allowing them to view the range of work of their classmates. This program, while offering a great deal of options, does have some drawbacks. I did have some trouble signing up to use the program. It is a bit confusing, as you are directed to a website with a different name, to create surveys. Additionally, the quantity of options available could be overwhelming for someone who is just beginning to utilize surveys in this form. Alignment with Strategy: As a data collection tool, micropoll gives students effective feedback. The effectiveness relates well to Pitler, Hubbell, & Kuhn's recommendations (2012) by giving recognition that is specific to an expectation and concrete for students (p. 64). Providing this specific feedback, that is based on the task allows students to see the importance of their effort more effectively than general praise.

Pitler, P., Hubbell, E.R., & Kuhn, M. (2012). //Using technology with classroom instruction that works //. Alexandria, VA: ASCD.

Sarah Kemmer Reinforcing Effort and Providing Recognition Resources: [|Edmodo] Website/App (available for iOS and Android, Windows) Rating: 6/10 Description: Edmodo is an educational website or application that mimics the modern-day Facebook. Educators are able to create a free account and set up different groups. Once in the app, educators, parents and students are able to communicate through a series of posts in a secure online setting. This application also allows for document uploading, and giving quick assessments on particular CC standards grades 3-12. With the ease posting on a website or application, parents and students are able to see their effort within the classroom and receive quick recognition. Cons: I found the application is very difficult to maneuver around. I also found that it is not younger elementary student friendly. Pros: Allows for quick assessment on common core instruction. This app allows for quick parent response through a comment on a post.

Ryan Brown

Reinforcing Effort and Providing Recognition Resource: Google Docs Website Rating: 9/10 Google Docs is an online office suite that allows users to create documents, spreadsheets, drawings, forms and presentations that are all uploaded and saved to a web-based server. Google docs allows the user to share their document with another and give varying levels of editing permissions to the person they have shared it with. Users can also edit documents simultaneously. Teachers also can find it very useful in that students can share completed work with the teacher quite easily by merely sharing their document with the teacher either via email or by saving it to a shared online folder. This helps keep things very organized. Teachers can use this tool with students to help reinforce the importance of their effort in the class. Teachers could create spreadsheets, documents, or even a form with questions asking them to answer honestly about their effort and/or perceived abilities in a particular unit, topic, or assignment. After the students receive their grade, they can go back and input their grade. The students will then see their end result based on their own efforts and work that was put in to the assignment.

Lenna Salisbury Reinforcing Effort and Providing Recognition Resource:[| Voicethread] Rating: 9/10 Description: Voicethread is an site that allows for students to post videos or voice recordings and responses can be posted as videos or voice recordings from peers and the teacher. Voicethread also has an option for live video conferencing. Alignment with Strategy: In using Voicethread for posting material and student responses for assignments, this allows the teacher to provide recognition for the efforts that students have put into their work. The students are not only praised for the effort that they have put into their work, but they are able to hear and see the praise from the teacher. With the collaboration of other students, other students may be motivated by the students who receive the praise from the teacher to work hard and receive that same recognition. There is a charge for using this service, but I have seen this used by the teachers at the virtual school that I work for and it has worked fantastically. The only reason that I gave it a 9/10 rating is because we have experienced several issues with the use of the program with MAC systems.

Jenna Hough Reinforcing Effort and Providing Recognition **Alignment w/ Strategy:** It aligns with the strategy because it’s a great resource to digitally display student work to reinforce their efforts and provide recognition for their work. This is especially great for teachers who do more project-based assignments that are better shown in a photo verses in a written description. I personally have used this to show off my hard working students, as well as keep parents and peers in the know about what’s happening in the classroom. I gave it a 7 because I was so disappointed with all the problems with the phone application that later developed. It was so convenient when it worked!-- I could upload pictures instantly to share. It’s still an excellent classroom resource, but unless they worked out the kinks with the phone application, may take a few more steps to upload photos.
 * Resource: **Weebly
 * Rating: ** 7/10
 * Description: ** Weebly is a free website builder. It allows you to choose from different themes and layouts to quickly and easily build a website. In the classroom it’s a great way to showcase student work or provide lesson information (assignments, objectives, pictures). Students could also use it for independent classroom projects to address a topic.

**Resource:** Class Dojo Website/app
 * Leanne Colvin **
 * Reinforcing Effort and Providing Recognition **
 * Rating:** 9/10 - The one drawback to this site is that if the instructor has a high volume of students, it can be time consuming to search the avatars for the correct student name. The alternative to that is creating multiple student groups, which means clicking between classrooms multiple times.
 * Description:** Class Dojo is a social media style site, based around providing recognition and feedback to students about their behaviors. The teacher, students, and parents can have access to the tool, depending on the level of involvement the instructor desires. The teacher adds their class roster to the site, and it creates an individual little monster avatar for each student. Then, as the class progresses throughout the day, the teacher can award or decrease a studentś behavior points. One of the best features about this site is that the instructor can determine what types of behaviors merit points, and add those behaviors specifically to the points list. For example, in my school, Class Dojo is used to reinforce what our counselor calls the REP program. REP stands for Respect, Excel, Protect, and its purpose it to help create a positive school climate to combat bullying. Whenever a teacher sees a student performing one of the desired behaviors outlined by the REP program, such as coming prepared for class, helping without being asked, including another student who is being left out, etc., that teacher can award the student a point on Class Dojo and a prize from the REP bag. However, the reward should only be for behaviors that the student may have been struggling with, in order to avoid affecting the intrinsic motivation of the student. By using Class Dojo, the faculty have a clear and countable way to positively reinforce students for their desirable behaviors. The site offers a news-feed style page, which also allows the teachers to post updates so that everyone can recognize the efforts of students or even see really heartwarming stories.
 * Alignment with Strategy:** The site aligns with the strategy almost perfectly. It allows for reinforcing desired efforts of students, which the teacher determines at the onset of the class page. It also allows a wide audience so that the student feels recognized for his/her efforts, meaning parents can also see up-to-date points being awarded. The only possible problem is that the site could cause loss in intrinsic motivation or become a tool for ridicule of students who go long intervals without recognition. It is up to the instructor to make sure this doesn´t happen.


 * Jaclyn Trahan**
 * Reinforcing Effort and Providing Recognition**
 * Educational Website/App**
 * Resource: [|IXL]**
 * Rating: 7/10**
 * Description:** IXL is an educational app/website for the core subjects and is aligned to Common Core and State Standards. Teachers can assign specific skills to their students for extra practice. It ranges for grades PreK through 12th grade so it is accessible for all grade levels. If using an iPad, students can work problems out right on the screen.
 * Alignment with Strategy:** IXL provides teachers and students with certificates of completion and recognition as they achieve mastery of certain skills. IXL charts the progress of each student, so the teacher can continue to reinforce and encourage the effort that the students are doing. If a student gets a problem wrong, IXL will offer an explanation with the correct solution. Immediate recognition is given upon getting a question right with sayings like "Good Job" or "Awesome". The downside of this is that when a student gets a question wrong, it knocks them back several percent.

Dawn Weller Reinforcing Effort and Providing Recognition  Brief description: Remind: Fast, Efficient School Messaging is a free, fast school messaging app. Remind lets you send messages and receive messages without giving out your personal phone number. The app will also display information your office hours, send announcements (i.e. class announcements, conversations, activities invites). Remind allows the instructor to add members directly, by shared link. Remind even provides an email instructions sheet for easy disbursement on how to join.  Instructional strategy alignment: Remind helps promotes goal orientation by allowing the instructor to set ‘activities invites/reminds in the app and email/texts those reminders out to the class group. Remind also allows for conversations between the instructor and students to let them know they are doing a good job! The one area that Remind would be lacking in is ‘concrete symbols of recognition’ (Pilter, Hubbell, & Kuhn, 2012). There does not seem to be a way to send badges or stickers, only words of praise. So this app may not work for an instructor that has a student who many need accessibility options.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;">Resource: **<span style="font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;"> Remind: Fast, Efficient School Messaging
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;">Source: **<span style="font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;"> iTunes app
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;">Rating: **<span style="font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;"> 7 out of 10

**References**
<span style="font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;">Pilter, H., Hubbell, E. R., & Kuhn, M. (2012). //Using Technology with Classroom Instruction that Works .// Denver, CO: McRel. <span style="font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;">Project, A. T. (2017, January 23). //AT Basics//. Retrieved from Assistive Technology Training Online Project: http://atto.buffalo.edu/

**Resource:** ClassCraft (web application)
 * Ronald Barranco**
 * Rating: 9/10**
 * Description:** ClassCraft turns your classroom into a role playing game.Students can create their own virtual avatar and earn XP for completing tasks and participating in class. Students are placed in teams and each student selects a character-type that has abilities that are specific to it. It features grouping of students to encourage cooperative learning and teamwork to accomplish goals, rather than creating a spirit of competition.Classcraft bills itself as a classroom management application because you can create negative and positive rewards tied to in-class behavior.
 * Alignment with Strategy:** Students are recognized for their efforts by being given rewards within ClassCraft. To recognize their accomplishment, they can "level up" their characters and earn special virtual items that tie into real in-class benefits, such as earning the ability to eat in class or help with test questions. Classcraft provides symbolic rewards that motivates students to accomplish more in their class. With this software, teachers can give students immediate feedback on their behavior and academic progress. Students can be recognized and rewarded for working together with other students.

Reinforcing effort and providing recognition Resource: [|Showbie] Rating: 8 out of 10 Description: Showbie allows students and teachers to be able to access the classroom from anywhere. The teacher can upload assignments, notes, and announcements to the app and everyone in the class as well as parents have access to it. Students can upload their assignments to this app and that will help in case they forgot the assignment at home. The application also informs and reminds students when an assignment is due to keep them on top of everything going on in class. Alignment with strategy: There are some drawbacks with showbie because even though the application is free, for the whole school to be able to use it there are costs for it. However, the free application allows teachers to provide comments with either audio or video recordings. They can provide instant feedback from an assignment that is uploaded by a student. A student can turn in an assignment and instantly the teacher can grade it and provide feedback and recognition to the student if he or she has done a good job. Students being able to upload an assignment with a teacher making comments can help them understand what they are doing right or wrong with an assignment before they turn it in for grading.
 * Shawn Peklo**


 * Alex Talmadge**
 * Resource:** Artsonia
 * Rating:** 8/10
 * Source:** Website and app(iOS&Android)
 * Description:** Artsonia is a public forum for student artwork. Students simply take a photo of their artwork and their a few clicks away from having their parents, grandparents, teachers, and peers being able to see and comment on their work. Artsonia also offers student work to be printed on t-shirts, mugs, bookmarks, and much more! This program cuts down on time for teacher assessment and organization for family members.
 * Alignment with strategy:** Artsonia is a safe place for students to showcase their work and also receive feedback. Parents, teachers, and students can leave comments on student work. EVERYONE has the opportunity to post their work and let it be seen. Often times, only a select few students from an art class have their work posted. Whether it's because there's a lack of "quality" (me!) or lack of space in the building. Now, every student gets to show off their hard work.

Mark York Resource: [|Stride] Rating: 9/10 Source: website Description: Stride is program that school systems or individuals can purchase accounts to set up a series of exercises in a topic and reinforce it with games. The example I will use will be for math games. The students can complete math problems to earn coins. After the student earns enough coins, she/he may choose to play a math based game in return for coins. During the math training portion, the program is able to identify if the student is failing to answer math problems correctly and can reduce problem difficulty. The program can also penalize a student for random or excessive clicking. The teachers account has the ability to post the awards earned by students or send it in e-mail form to parents for recognition. Alignment with strategy: The teachers dashboard allows them to see real time information about student performance or recent student performance. The teacher can export the data to send notes or present it to the class. The downside to the program is the cost.

Brittany DeRupa //Pro//- Students are very engaged and excited about answering math questions because of the advancements they can make in their game. They do not feel as if they are actually doing work. //Con//- Some of the question formats may be different than the strategies taught. Students may be confused about where to enter information to complete their math problem.
 * Reinforcing Effort and Providing Recognition**
 * Resource**: Prodigy
 * Rating**: 9/10
 * Description:** Prodigy is an online app/website that allows students to practice their math skills while playing a game. Teachers can sign students up or, students who already have accounts are able to connect with their teacher through a class code. Students answer Common Core Curriculum aligned questions in order to complete missions and fulfill a role in their virtual world. Teachers can create assignments, lesson plans, and run reports to see gaps in student learning.
 * Alignment with Strategy:** This tool aligns with reinforcing effort and providing recognition because students are rewarded for their efforts with “coins” that they can use to advance in their virtual world. There is also a leaderboard where students can see who has earned the most coins that week.

Cheryl Barden
 * Reinforcing Effort and Providing Recognition**
 * Resource: Classkick**
 * Rating:** 9/10
 * Description:** Classkick is a free program that is either web based or available on mobile devices. It allows teachers to set up a class roster, create assignments and give immediate feedback. The program allows students to virtually raise their hand for help or to have their work checked. Teachers can check in on the student's progress at anytime however, the "raised hand" indicates that a student is ready for feedback in one form or another. Students are also able to collaborate on other classmate's work by offering feedback. This is a nice tool when you have a student who may have mastered a skill and can assist other classmates. In addition to creating assignments, video's can be uploaded or links attached for ease of connecting valuable information. You can create multiple assignments as well as multiple class rosters for teachers who have classes with different students throughout the day.
 * Alignment with Strategy:** Teachers are able to go to the class dashboard and access student performance data. They are then able to recognize both success as well as potential for growth. Teachers can offer immediate feedback as well as immediately take note of a student who may be struggling with a skill. Students can easily be recognized for achievement by the instant feedback they receive from their teacher and peers.

Kory Stevens Reinforcing Effort and Providing Recognition Resource: Text Messaging Rating: 7/10 Description: Text Messaging doesn't seem like an educational tool that would be used in the classroom. It's usually something teachers are trying to prevent during class time, which might be appropriate. Text Messaging is an app on a phone that can be used to communicate with anyone that has a phone with text messaging capabilities. Student's can use the text messaging app to create messaging groups so a group of students can communicate at once about a project or something going on in the classroom. The negative about text messaging is that at a click of a button people can send messages that might not be appropriate. Also a teacher might not want his students to have his/her phone number. Alignment with Strategy: I use text messaging not to send to my students because none of my students have phones but I do use them to send pictures to parents of their child giving great effort. Just the other day I sent a photo to one of my parents of their child riding a bike for the first time. They were very excited and I hoped it would motivate them to possibly get their child on a bike outside of school.

Name: Chris Curry Resource: Digital Camera or phone camera. Rating: 10. Description: Take pictures of students doing extra effort or extra work. Post it in the class or somewhere on the web (maybe a school website). This allows the student to see the teacher has recognized them and other students see it as well. Alignment with strategy: Generally student achievement is directly related to their effort. This simple and inexpensive tool allows them to be recognized and it reinforces their effort.
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