February+10,+2010

At this Cohort meeting, the focus was on the SMART Response system (formerly called Senteo). Sarah gave a presentation about the different types of SMART Response questions and how they can be used creatively in the classroom. Topics include formative and summative assessment, higher-level questioning, active reading, and use of multimedia elements in SMART Response quizzes. Please note that photos have been removed due to copyright concerns, but links to those photos remain on the notebook pages. After Sarah's presentation, Deb Kaczorek offered training in how to create SMART Response teacher files, class lists, and quizzes.

For next time, if you have access to a SMART Response system, try using it in a lesson. If you are a more experienced Response user, try to use some of the strategies you saw tonight. If you don't have access to SMART Response, use some creative questions for formative and summative assessment in a Notebook lesson. Respond to the question(s) in the discussion forum, upload lessons to the Wiki Lesson Library, and participate in any other way on the wiki. Remember, the more you participate, the more chances you have to win a SMART Slate (Airliner)!

Below are some additional SMART Response resources.

Marzano Research

[|SMART Response Video]

[|SMART Response Fact Sheet]

[|Two Minute Tutorials]