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Using gScholar, ScreenCastify & Video Not.es for Student Led Conferences

Our district has made a strong push to getting Chromebooks into the hands of our students this year by combining local, federal and grant funds to purchase a little over 1000 devices for 3,400 students. We have one school, Wakefield Hills Elementary, that is a 1:1 school and several 1:1 pilot programs in each of our four other schools.  +Christopher Allen  and I have been discussing how we could use the tools available for our students to help them with their student led conferences. Chris wants his students to be able to show what they know, and are able to do. It's important that his students are reflective about their learning. This blog showcases three applications, and how to use them to help students provide evidence of their learning. We're using gScholar (  +Ryan Schwartz  from Promevo ), ScreenCastify and Video Not.es  to help us and our students meet our goals for Student Led Conferences (SLC). We're using reading fluency in the example videos posted below, but t