Week 7 - Technology

This week, I was looking for tech tools, that would help the class to be more paperless, and to dig deeper into student understanding. I was researching 2nd grade standards for a lesson idea the other day, and one of the standards was talking about sequencing events on a timeline. I thought to myself, how cool would this be if the students could make their timelines online? The research would and gathering information would be way more organized, and easy to read. So I cam across the website, Dipity. Not only is this a website where you can make your own timeline, but it also has timelines from other people on it, and it sequencing current events, and important things in history. Therefore, students can use this website to make timelines in any grade, not just second, and use this website to look at current events that have been happening around the world.

What is Dipity?

Dipity is a free digital timeline website. Our mission is to organize the web's content by date and time. Users can create, share, embed and collaborate on interactive, visually engaging timelines that integrate video, audio, images, text, links, social media, location and timestamps. 

Who is Dipity for?

Dipity timelines are for anyone who uses the Internet. Newspapers, journalists, celebrities, government organizations, politicians, financial institutions, community managers, museums, universities, teachers, students, non-profits and bloggers all use Dipity to create timelines.

Why use Dipity?

Dipity allows users to create free timelines online. Digital timelines are a great way to increase traffic and user engagement on your website. Dipity is the fastest and easiest way to bring history to life with stunning multimedia timelines.

This will for sure be a technology tool that I will use in my classroom. 

http://www.dipity.com/

Week 6 - Technology

I found this awesome website, that I wish I would have found when I was in high school. The website that I found is called Grockit. Grockit is an online test prep service for students seeking to get their best potential score on the GMAT, SAT, ACT, GRE, and many other tests required for college admissions. Grockit's adaptive, personalized learning program helps students learn quickly and answer more questions correctly. Grockit gives you social, collaborative and personal learning, fueled by adaptive learning algorithms and up-front analysis that identifies and compensates for your learning strengths and weaknesses. Study online any time of day, from anywhere you have Internet access, no boring classrooms and lectures. Grockit is convenient, and predicts you score based on your answers and tracks your performances and improvements, projecting accurate score improvements. Grockit is tutoring for the students. Study plans provide practice tests, personalized insight into your weak subject areas, review of your work, and the right tutor to help you. Grockit has great TV features. Award-winning teachers demonstrating problem solving techniques that can be applied to your study plan. There are hundreds of hours of Grockit TV content.

I know that this is not really a elementary grade level website, but this will help if I ever decide to get a degree in middle school or high school. I can even suggest this to other teachers in my district.




https://grockit.com/

Week 5 - Technology

This week I found a great website titled, EDpuzzle. With EDpuzzle you can discover how to increase students' engagement and accountability with videos. On EDpuzzle you start by trimming a video you want your students to watch, because students usually show more engagement with videos shorter than 7 minutes. At any point in the video, you can insert a question and make your students think and actively participate during the video lesson. You can also take a close look into what your students are doing, check their understanding and identify where they may be struggling. On one screen you can see who has watched the whole video and who answered the questions correctly or incorrectly.

I find that this technology integration piece would work perfectly with a flipped classroom model. That way you can see who watched the videos before class, and know that your students already know the information you are getting ready to cover in the next class. I will definitely be using this in my future classroom!

https://edpuzzle.com/search