Orchestrate is a scheduling software that helps you plan where qualified personnel will work according to their specific job related skills. How I see I can use this in the classroom is through identifying what skills the students in my classroom have and deciding where they can be placed to do the most good in the classroom. I do a lot of projects and use cooperative teaching techniques within my classroom. This Web 2.0 product allows you to schedule students for project placement on the right day in the right group project. It also allows you to follow where the project is going and what should be completed by which day so that benchmarks and goals can be achieved. It gives you team, task, and location or group number and members of that group. It allows you to assign students with the correct qualification for each task. You can utilize Multiple Intelligence to qualify what skills the individual student has. It also give you the ability to put in information concerning the special needs of each student and makes it possible for you to place that student effectively. This is great because you can stay in control of you students, tasks, and skills they can perform. Orchestrate also allows you to put members of a group in a block form spreadsheet. Whenever a student is absent you can place or rotate a similar student in that group to fill in for the day with the same skills as the student that was absent. The good thing is that the student can log-in and get instructions on what group they will be working with, what task they will be working on, and schedule of benchmarks and goals. Orchestrate is a business Web 2.0 application that can be used by the teacher as a way to control the various learning abilities of their students.
Orchestrate, A Quick Tour of Orchestrate, Retrieved November 8, 2009, from http://orchestrateapp.com/tour.html
Is it a free tool?
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