In this week’s snack tools, we looked at several applications that can be used to integrate technology into your lessons to maximize student’s achievement. Some of these snack tools included Photosnack, Podsnack, Flipsnack, slidesnack, notifysnack, and educade. There are many different online tools that are available to help teachers deliver effective instruction and assessment to maximize student achievement in the classroom.
The first of the snack tools that was introduced in this lesson is Photosnack. This is used to create a slideshow presentation using your pictures. Some of the uses for the classroom could be to create a slide showcase of the positive activities that are taking place in your classroom. It can showcase students
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This tool was easy to use to download YouTube videos and music. The steps were so easy to use. I would highly recommend this website tool as well. It is user-friendly and a great asset that can be added to almost any lesson.
Another snack tool introduced in this lesson was Flipsnack. This tool is used to transform word documents and PDF files into flipbooks. A create feature is that it has a special section just for education. Some of the features of this tool include: improving student engagement, helping with differentiated learning to meet the needs of all students, and helps connect teachers with students on a regular basis. This website tool was easy to sign up for the teacher and to add the students and classes in. It gives user-friendly steps to follow with any of the categories you choose. This would be a great asset for making up work. It allows students to review the concepts covered in a lesson. Teachers can take their power points and notes convert them to PDF and upload them to a flip notebook (Flipbook, n.d.). This is also great for the flipped classroom teachers. This is even for students to learn and use for a short presentation. You can upload video and podcast as well. This may take a little more time than the first two snack tools, but it meant to be simple and quick to use. Again, I would highly
One of my learning moments was during our very first day of class. We created a “Gypsy Wagon Book” which is very interesting and unique to me because, this book can be used in a variety of ways for all ages. One way to use this book is that you could have your own students create their own story book, maybe of what they did over the summer, vacations they went on, birthday parties or just different activities that they did with friends and family. This book can be used for sequence of a story that you read to your students. Also this book could be used simply just as a journal for student to right in daily or once a week on how they are feeling.
There are many IT tools available that can assist learning. Within my place of employment we have Target Tracker software to manage and track pupil progress and learning, subject specific software such as Smart Learning and a fully implemented Virtual Learning Environment for the entire school.
Education in classrooms are getting a different twist these days. In order to get kids more engaged at learning, teachers are trying to figure out ways to get then interested. With a handful of technology available that can distract kids from learning, teachers are using that same technology as a tool for learning.
For Show and Tell, I used the display we had put together on Planting. We planted seeds with the children as part of a Maths experiment to see how tall they would grow and be able to measure in cm's and inches. Children estimated the plants end height and recorded the information. Our Science lesson covered, talking about plants, bugs, bees and the environment. We use a similar ICT programme whereby the children send
As another work week approaches, many teachers struggle with how they are going to accommodate to many of their student’s needs within the classroom; however, with adequate planning and the amazing ability of technology today I will succeed. As my third graders scurry into the classroom they immediately feel the atmosphere with laughing and a sense of innocence. On the outside they all look like a normal 8 year old who loves recess and intriguing science projects; however, their learning ability is vastly different which is where different learning resources come in to play.
Putting power point together- I dont know what your use doing or want to do. Last class we turned in our information on a word document to a person on the team. She than cut and pasted each of our information with correct references and pictures if there were any to the slides and cleaned it up and organized it.
I inserted this into my notes by screenshotting the image and then inserting it as a file. The last tool that I used was the Web Clipper that Evernote has incorporated to insert the recent news article about Spring Training for the Oakland A's. I could use Evernote as a teacher in a variety of ways. I could use it as a teacher planner and include a monthly schedule in it that talks about what I want to accomplish day by day. It would also allow me to organize all the assignments I would hand out to students in one place. I can also use it as a way to organize each of the students work so when it came time to grade assignments everything would be well organized. Evernote applies to Standard 2 because it "incorporates a digital tool to promote student
For session three I read Walker the story The Dot by Peter H. Reynolds. This story is one of my favorites and he really enjoyed it. It is about a little girl who does not have the confidence that she can paint. Once she overcomes it and starts painting her paintings are placed in an art museum. I thought this story could give Walker the encouragement he needed. After reading the story I gave Walker cut out lo-go’s of McDonald’s, Ward’s, John Deere, Ramey’s, Dollar General and Wal-Mart. Walker was able to read them all except Wal-Mart. He was so excited to read them to his mom whenever she came to pick him up. Teachers can use environmental print to relate the pictures to the letters they begin with. The McDonald’s logo can be used to teach
Hey! This week in Instructional Technology we looked at some formative assessments. My group did an app called Plickers. So what is Plickers? Well, Plickers is an assessment that allows the teacher to create a class and questions. Once the class and questions are done, the teacher will print out the Plickers Cards. Your students will rotate the card to indicate their response. The teacher then takes their smart phone or iPad and takes a photo of the cards using the app. Then the teacher will get a response based off the students answers.
Technology not only affects students, but also teachers. Resources such as voice mail, email, and the World Wide Web all aid teachers in informing parents of upcoming events, responding to students and their questions, and searching for information. There are also technology tools
To unwind from tests, teachers, school work, and learning. All those subjects are very stressful in a young teenager’s life. Our lunch hour is the only hour from 8:00 a.m. to 2:50 p.m. that we have that we can just get away from school, and relax and have fun.
There are many different types of technology that may be used within the classroom to keep teachers prepared, organized and enthusiastic. Through online research I found an article published by Edudemic, a website dedicated to help promote technology within the classroom. The article is titled, 50 Education Technology Tools Every Teacher Should Know About. This is where I discovered one of the top technologies for teacher organization and lesson planning. Planboard is ranked number twenty-three overall and second in the category of ‘Lesson Planning and Tools: Use these tech tools to pull together great lessons and design amazing and memorable student projects’.
There is a growing trend in the use of technology in the classroom. As a teacher, I am always looking for ways to use manipulatives in my lessons to increase meaning and authenticity for students. I would love to keep my students engaged, motivated and interactive in the classroom and still be able to get through the content each day. In order to achieve this, I need to have an arsenal of tools to draw from. That is why I agree with (Tataroglu & Erduran, 2010) as stated in the International Electronic Journal of Elementary Education (IEJEE) that “The use of technologies like IWBs in the classroom can provide teachers and students convenience and variety. “
Education is one of the most important professions in the working world. Technology has done many things for us in today’s society especially for education and schools. Technology in the school system has impacted the students and teachers in many positive ways, including virtual field trips, testing tips, teacher resources, class web sites, and lesson plans. With computer use in our schools, we have access to many different sources and various types of learning.
Education has found its way into the loop of technology. Teachers are using ipads and laptops during class time to help conduct experiments, or share a presentation. This is allowing the students to gain instant access to the information they are seeking. Students also receive the opportunity to complete their homework online and print off their assignments instead of just using paper and pencil. Another pro for Technology in Education, there are countless sources out there which help enhance learning. In one research conducted, they compared the performance of teaching kids how to read a clock. One group was coached by an online app, another was shown by a toy clock, and the last group was trained by a drawing example. The results revealed that the children that were taught by the toy and app exceeded the paper drawing group (Galetzka).