Assessment - Setup - Journal 2

Just tested IFTTT; works nicely.



This could be a rather useful, not only for this project but for the reflective writing the Pastoral team at my school expect of their tutees. I will look to incorporate this system into the ePortfolios I have built over the last 6 months.
Tutors want a one-stop dashboard of their tutee's work within their ePortfolios. The Blogger Blog for reflective writing has always been a bit of an issue in my mind; I had no way of pulling the data to the teacher. IFTTT allows this. It will require a bit of setting up, but once it is done it should work without any input from the less techie tutors!

Bizarrely, IFTTT creates a folder which, if you move, breaks the link to Blogger; a new IFTTT folder is created in the root directory of GDrive. I'll have to look at setting up a specific GSheet to write to. It would be better if IFTTT recognised files by their key and not their name!

Assessment - Setup - Journal

As part of the assessment plan for my students, I want my students to create a log/journal of their biology work. This log will be assessed for their critical thinking and problem solving.

To make the assessment as efficient for the teachers as possible, I thought I'd look at IFTTT to set up a push from Blogger to a GSheet. This will allow the teacher and student to see a log of the journal entries and quickly access those entries. I'm still toying with the concept, but I've just thought - this second - of using Doctopus to share the Journal Log sheet with the students. The teachers' assessments can be done with Goobric and kept private (FERPA) while comments directly on the blog can be formative.

Let's see how it goes!