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"I plan on integrating it into my long-term planning, transferring my quarter plans into two parts of the calendar: week-long standards will be input as day-long events spanning the length of the unit; and daily tasks will be input as hourly events within each day. This will help my students and me to keep track of the tasks and standards that we're learning, have learned, and will move on to next, as well as ignite more urgency when students see the multitude of standards they must master still." -RHA

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"Pinterest is a tool that I'll use to keep anchor charts for the whole year in a neat, organized space. There isn't enough space on the classroom's walls to keep all the anchor charts for every topic for the entire year, so specific anchor charts lose their usefulness after the unit ends. However, by taking pictures of each anchor chart and posting those pictures, organized by unit and topic, on a Pinterest board that all students can access, students will be able to refer back to anchor charts from months before in order to refresh that topic in their minds. It will also be available to them at home, so that they can use the same references while doing their homework as they have at school." -RHA

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"Prezi would be a great way to add some more interest to your presentations. I've been using Powerpoint for whole-group instructions on the board, so I thought that making it as plain as possible would help students follow the instructions more easily. But I found that with Prezi, the transitions actually help students stay engaged, and instructions can be broken up piece by piece so that everyone can see exactly what they need to move on to next." -RHA

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"With having to juggle teaching, planning, grad work, and other real-life responsibilities, I started using a to-do list app this year to try to keep myself on track with everything, and then found it to be not as useful when I had only my laptop and not my phone, so Wunderlist would help me as well to bridge that problem I had." -RHA

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"I've found myself also needing somewhere to compile my notes from all their multiple sources, so I'll take a look at how I could use Evernote myself." -RHA

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"Trello will allow me to provide students with an effective project management tool for major end-of-the-year projects. Having taught 6th grade last year, and supporting 6th grade this year, it's been interesting to see how even elementary school students get a form of "senioritis" as they become more anxious to move on to the next educational level. Engaging students through personal projects is a great method to ensure that learning time isn't being wasted during the fourth quarter of the year. And by using Trello, I can provide students with a step-by-step template for managing their projects, and see how much progress they are making toward completion of the project." -RHA

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"Google Forms will provide an easy method for gathering all kinds of student data. Now that I'm teaching ELL students, I'm interacting with a diverse array of cultures and languages that I'm not familiar with, and I don't always have access to student data. Through surveys on Google Forms, I can compile a lot of data about all of my students, and then export that data onto a spreadsheet so that I can use it more easily. I can also use surveys to gather data about my teaching practice, asking my students to honestly rate the different components of my teaching and what they think about their effectiveness. Further, I can use Google Forms to create multiple-choice tests, allowing me to more easily grade those tests and then analyze that data." -RHA

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"I think you have a great idea about how to use Padlet in discussions! It sounds like that will be a great tool for your students to share their hypotheses, observations, results, conclusions, and feedback with each other. Along those same veins of going back to the same Padlet after an activity, maybe it can also be used as an electronic KWL chart, where students put in their prior knowledge and desired knowledge at the start of the lesson and then return to add it what they learned." -RHA

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"A rubric on Pixton could be a good way to guide students along the project so that they're not just losing time or learning not knowing what to do on the site. With a rubric, an app like Pixton can be a really engaging way for students to compile their understanding into a cool project like a comic strip! I remember having to do a "Factoring Story Book" in my 8th grade math class, and having to put it together entirely on Word took away a lot of the fun, creative aspects of making a story book or a comic strip." -RHA

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"I like that you're focusing on Google platforms specifically because they are the most commonly used platforms among college students and educators. By framing it in that way, I think you're setting up your students to be more successful in college, giving them prior experience with specific tools that will greatly benefit them. Also, I think it helps smooth over the transition from high school to college, which can be a rough transition for some students that lack an organizational foundation for approaching foreign academic tasks." -RHA

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"Piktochart is an awesome tool that students can use to create anchor charts for the various topics that we cover daily. As an end-of-unit review assignment before final unit tests, I can have students use Piktochart to create an anchor chart on a subtopic that they struggled with. Doing so will help them review the material in an interactive way that should lead to deeper internalization of the concept, because creating their own reference engages them to think critically about the topic." -RHA

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"PowToon can be useful as an end-of-semester or end-of-year project. Students can be asked to create a Powtoon video that explains a major topic or theme from the semester or year; for example, in 5th grade math, students could make videos on the base-10 system and place value, on decimals and fractions, on all the operations, on geometry, or on statistics. The video would have to cover all of the subtopics within each domain, and students would be given a rubric detailing necessary examples, time length, subtopics for each major topic, etc. The project would have to be started at least 1 quarter (9-10 weeks) before it is due, so that students have plenty of time to learn the software and put their projects together. Further, students can couple this tool with a project-management tool, like Trello, in order to stay on task throughout the duration of the project." -RHA

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"I think Canva could also be a good tool to use with interactive notebooks. Students could make their own note sheets (like how you've had them make information sheets or bulletins), and then paste their own note sheets into their notebooks to have neat, complete notes about every topic covered, supplementing those notes with examples done in class." -RHA

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"It seems like, with Glogster, you can also tie it into the presentation of an informative essay. You can explain to students that in college and graduate schools, essays aren't just written and turned in to the teacher for grading, but sometimes also presented to a group of peers. So if they start practicing it now, they'll be getting themselves ready for their academic career after high school. And Glogster is a really cool way to turn a drab informational essay into an engaging, interactive poster to be used in presenting that essay." -RHA

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"I agree that Magisto is great because of its ease of use. iMovie, for example, has so many functionalities that it can be a bit overwhelming for some students that are not as adept with software as others, which is a big impediment to creating a video production assignment (i.e. I don't want to have to spend a week teaching them how to use the tool, when the point is facilitating understanding of the academic content). But Magisto is much easier, so I don't think it would hamper student understanding or completion of a video production project." -RHA

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"Formative immediately jumped out at me because of its auto-grading feature for tests, which resolves my least favorite part of teaching. I can create a test on Formative that students will access with a code, and I can preset the auto-correct feature for multiple-choice questions so that the majority of the test is automatically graded. Then I just have to look at the short-responses, which I can do all on one screen. Not only does this simplify testing for me, but also, it gives students more practice with online, technology-enhanced tests, like the district and state assessments they must take every quarter." -RHA

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"GeoGebra is a fantastic tool for geometry, particularly when moving to concepts like surface area and volume. Three-dimensional shapes can be broken up into area models and super-imposed onto the original shape, visually demonstrating the concept of surface area. And shapes can be filled in according to their dimensions, visually demonstrating volume. I can also see how it would be very beneficial in upper levels of math, given its graphing functions, which can be something I introduce to my 6th graders as we move into coordinate planes." -RHA

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"I like your idea for how to use Edublogs in your classroom! I haven't taught reading myself, but my teaching partners that do have always expressed frustration with a lack of good procedures for keeping students accountable to independent reading. And I think tying it into how post-secondary online classes operate is a really good idea--you're equipping your students with prior experience that they can rely on when they graduate high school and move on to college/grad school." -RHA

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Emaze is an online presentation tool that I can introduce students to along with a quarter project, so that they have an engaging new platform to get familiar with while they complete projects and presentations.

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Grammarly can be a tool for assisted peer review, so that students can focus on reviewing each other's content rather than bogging down on grammatical mistakes, which the program would have picked up already.

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Adobe Spark can be used when students need to create quick, small anchor charts about small topics, such as a poster containing the acronym for the order of operations (either GEMS or PEMDAS). With limited option and ease of use, students can quickly create posters that help them internalize the concept.

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Kahoot is a fun way to engage students in review questions, in reviewing vocabulary, in a formative assessment after a lesson, etc. It can even be used in centers for students to self-check into differentiated tasks depending on their success on a Kahoot pretest.

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This would be a good tool for when students do group projects that involve gathering data. They can simply create a sheet and share it with me and each other, and then export it into a PDF or Excel file to print it and paste into their interactive notebooks.

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Google slides can help as repository for lesson slides. I can export my slides from PearDeck, or simply from a PowerPoint, and upload them as Slides. Then I can organize them in a Drive folder that all students have access to, so that lesson slides are available as a resource at home or at school.

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Drive can serve as the classroom's virtual file cabinet. I can create folders for each individual student to upload their work into, as well as folders for classroom procedure documents, lesson slides, assignments, resources, flyers, etc.

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Pinterest
Prezi
Wunderlist
Evernote
Emaze

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Trello
Padlet
Pixton
Grammarly

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Piktochart
Powtoon
Canva
Glogster
Magisto
Adobe Spark

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Formative
GeoGebra
EduBlogs
Kahoot

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Calendar (Learner)
Forms (Collaborator)
Docs (Collaborator)
Sheets (Collaborator)
Slides (Learner)
Drive (Collaborator)