This is the dashboard for Spinndle. The classrooms are located at the top of the page and the student feed is located at the bottom.
Today we had a the pleasure of listening to Kristina Tzetzos, one of the founders of Spinndle, which is a self-assessment/portfolio platform for students to upload and self-assess their work. Spinndle is meant to help students self-assess and upload their work in order to show their progress. The really great thing about Spinndle is that students can also comment on their peers’ work. The teacher is also able to see what students have posted and the feedback they have posted to their peers.
My greatest takeaway from Kristina’s presentation is that self-assessment is really difficult for students. I know from experience that self-assessment is difficult for everyone, let alone asking a child to do it. What Kristina really stressed is that you must be very intentional when it comes to having students self-assess their work. Have students know exactly what they are assessing and how they will be assessing or they will not know what they are doing. Also, self-assessment needs to happen regularly in order for students to become more familiar with it and better at it.
This shows the self assessment loops for each assignment uploaded to Spinndle
Great thoughts, Brielle! Making self-assessment meaningful and giving clear intentions was something I took away from this presentation as well. I think Spinndle would be a great tool to implement into our classes!