Tackk
Tackk is user friendly as it walks you through the process step by step to create your web page. It also contains an easy to use toolbox on the side of the page to change the background, theme, text size and font, etc. The app is exceptional for differentiation, as ESL students can post a page containing mainly pictures with little text, and students with special needs can post a page with only pictures.
Students using Tackk would be engaged and motivated as it gives them a chance to personalize the web page to represent them and their learning. This app gives students a chance to share the web page with their classmates as well and learn from each other. Once the web page is completed, it can be used for evaluation and assessment by the facilitator and peers.
Tackk allows for critical thinking as students create a web page that requires the application of their knowledge on a particular subject in order to demonstrate their understanding.
Tackk would be a good tool for creations like book reviews, PBL (project based learning) products, and making lists of appropriate websites for certain projects. If I were to redesign some projects from student teaching to include this tool, I would use it in a second grade PBL product over historical figures showing individualism or inventiveness. Instead of the learners creating a hand made timeline and book review, they could create a Tackk web page that included the title of their historical figure, a picture of them, and pictures and/or text (depending on their learning level) of how that figure showed individualism or inventiveness. I would also redesign a fourth grade lesson on expository versus narrative writing. My students struggled to take one theme and write about it in both styles, so we could create web pages as a class that gave examples of expository and narrative style introductions for common themes.
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