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I love using technology in the classroom. I really enjoy incorporating technology in the form of formative assessment and review. I use the programs plickers and kahoot. My students love using those programs and constantly ask for them.

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My district does not have an 1:1 devices, but during my after school social skills program, I really wanted to incorporate Nearpod into it. I created a Nearpod on Sportsmanship and I have to say the kids LOVED it. Being that I

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Using videos as hooks to begin my lesson

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During my leave replacement, I had the opportunity to incorporate Nearpod into my FACS classroom, using their 1:1 chromebooks. It was great getting to see the most introverted students move out of their comfort shell and each participate in their own individualized way.

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During my leave replacement earlier this school year, I was able to incorporate Plickers and Kahoot! into the classroom. It was very rewarding because the students claimed they have never gotten the opportunity to use Plickers in the classroom, nor have they ever heard of it. I enjoyed using it for review because it allows me to visualize who is succeeding in the topic and who is not understanding. I can then spend more time with the students who do not understand and make sure I spend more time on the more difficult topics.

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This school year, I did not have many resources in my school. I was not able to implement the technology I wanted to in my classroom. Although we are doing this project based learning (PBL). I was able to show my students how to successfully create a Prezi presentation.

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I use technology to do various classroom group projects and to engage students in working together in teams and sharing their knowledge.

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Using technology for a hook to begin a lesson

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Some of the best experiences I have ever had using technology has been with my 1st grade leave replacement class that I am currently in. During a mini lesson about the "retell strategy" the students were able to come up to the SmartBoard and interact with the presentation. Using a basic SmartNotebook file, I had so much fun watching the children become excited to engage in the activity. Another thing that the students love is doing GoNoodle, gets them up and moving. Perfect for brain breaks!

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Best experience with technology . . . learning how to do a mail merge.  It saves so much time and sanity.
I have used it for letter writing, and for certificates. As long as someone else gives you the names, you can never spell anything wrong.

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Over the course of this year I have been implementing technologies such as Google Classroom and Nearpod in my classroom. Nearpod was a great experience for me and my students. They really enjoyed the engagement Nearpod has to offer. The lesson that stands out to me was my lesson on how to write a thematic essay for my Global 10 class. I used Nearpod for this lesson and it worked great. My students enjoyed this lesson because they were able to voice their opinions without being called upon.

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This school year i have been incorporating Nearpod into my lessons for my students in my elementary Self-Contained classroom. I began using Nearpod because one particular student was becoming very behavioral and would refuse to do math work. He loved Nearpod and enjoyed the lessons i had created. He enjoyed it so much that he even wanted to earn Nearpod as a reward!

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My best experience with technology was with my 8th grade students and I had them look at one of the 360 Degree panoramic pictures of the Berlin Wall. They all used their phones and got to move around to see the pictures. They loved being able to move and look at the Berlin Wall- many of them commented on how they felt like they were there.

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An experience I have had so far is using Google Classroom to manage student's work and ensuring they are on task during class assignments.

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We don't have much technology at my school, except for the Promethean boards we had installed recently. Last month I had the opportunity to present Nearpod during a PD day at my school. Before this program, I had never heard of Nearpod, so it was very exciting to be able to share this tool with my colleagues and administrators.

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One of my best experiences is with my 3rd  grade students using a program called Dreambox. Watching the students being extremely engaged and excited about learning was extremely rewarding. This program is a math program that engages the students in a fun and exciting way while learning at the same time. The program allowed me to track the students individual progress and correlated directly to standards. The program allowed me to know what each individual student was struggling in and what they were excelling in.

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I found this game on Desmos which is a graphing site. Students were given an equation and they had to change the given graphed function to look like the equation given. They were also given the option to play against their friends. They accessed it through Google Classroom.

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As a science teacher, I like using technology to do virtual labs with my students. It enables them to be focused and participate in activities that I cannot implement in the classroom.

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I have been using Nearpod in my classroom nearly everyday this year. I think it is a great tool and it has helped my students have a more engaging learning experience.

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My best experience with technology came a few years ago when I was working at a low income district with students that rarely ever used technology in school.  We started using phones,  got laptops and went almost completely digital.  It turned a room full of reluctant readers and writers into students that were excited to learn and share.

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This past spring I did a 6th grade leave replacement and I had a chance to use Nearpod for a lesson on religion. We had been learning about religions for a week, and the students were losing interest. This was their first experience with Nearpod and they really loved it. They were very engaged and responsive with the technology and lesson.

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One the best experiences was when I was subbing in a co-taught ELA class, and the lead teacher used Kahoot! for review before a test the following day. It was my first time seeing Kahoot! used in the classroom, and it was inspiring to see how engaged and excited the students were to use this tool.

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Using the graphing site Desmos I was able to create a competition between students in the classroom. There is a feature known as "Marble Slider" that requires students to manipulate and transform graphs in order to collect marbles that are placed at specific points on the x-y plane. Watching the students discover how different values can effect a function was a great feeling.

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Using what we learned about connecting classrooms from different regions through technology from Amanda and Rich I recently had small groups in my global class (in Brooklyn) facetime and discuss modern social issues with my sister (in Long Island). The result was both my students and my sister had an engaging discussion that went beyond the original questions both sides came up with, and extended to cultural understandings that both sides would not have had without such a discussion.

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Over the winter semester I was introduced to Flipgrid. I love the idea of students posting short video clips to share their thoughts and ideas. This would be a great tool to use for a flipped classroom assignment. It also allows every student to have a voice!

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I have had a few experiences with technology in the classroom but the one that I found the students to enjoy the most is Quizlet Live! Students love to prepare for their tests/quizzes this way and I've noticed students have done a lot better on quizzes and tests while preparing this way.

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One of my best experiences with technology occurred this year, during my first year of teaching. After learning about Nearpod in the Ed. Tech program, I decided to incorporate it into my class. It was amazing to see the students engaged and excited about learning in a collaborative learning environment. They responded so well to writing, drawing, polling, and true and false incorporated activities.

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A couple of months ago I decided to buy 8 Google Carboard VR headsets off of Amazon for a lesson for my Level 4 Spanish students. At the time, I was teaching them about art and I wanted to take them on a "field trip" to a art museum using the headsets.  The students loved it.  I was also able to use Youtube with the VR headset through Youtube's VR feature to take the students on a trip into the dreams of artist Salvador Dali. Being that I am in a building with very limited technology, this was the first time many of my students had an experience like this in class, and for many, it was also the first time they used VR--even through the quality was as good as it would have been with a more advanced VR headset.

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