Teacher productivity tool

Draft

Definition

Tools to make a busy teacher's life more manageable ....

(this is very provisional. I just made this entry to remind me to investigate this - Daniel K. Schneider 20:07, 3 May 2007 (MEST))

Provisional categories

Lesson planning

• lesson planners

Monitoring and grading

• Learner assessment tools (including evaluation rubrics)
• Grade management tools.
• Student monitoring tools (e.g. tracing activities in a LMS)

Course preparation

• Content tools (see various authoring tools
• Project management
• Presentation tools
• Activity creators (puzzles, tests, webquests, etc.)

Real-time presentation tools

• Some presentation tools allow for some sort of annotation
• On-screen annotation tools
• Electronic whiteboards or share whiteboards.

Integrated sofware

Links

• A Productive School Year (WebQuest)
• The Laptops for Learning Report, includes things like Florida Educator Accomplished Practice #12: Technology or or Software
• Internet Based Teacher Productivity Tools (rather good list)
• ICT as a personal productivity tool in a teacher's professional work and career

Software

• LehrerOffice Swiss German commercial product.
• Teacher Productivity Tools Classroom Software Collection
• Quiz & Test Creation Tools Assessment Authoring Tools Collection