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Google Classroom Tutorial and Ideas For the Classroom

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This video is a step by step tutorial on how to set up Google classroom for teachers and students. Also, in the video I brainstorm and talk about some ways I have implemented Google classroom into my curriculum, activities I have created that use the program, and how precise and quick feedback is given to students using Google classroom.

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Quick introduction to Poll Everywhere and how to use it in your classroom

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Watch Ms. Donnelly use Poll Everywhere as a warm-up activity in her Biology II class. Students are asked to text what they learned about the heart as a review of the previous day's lesson. Yes, they used their cell phones! Heart vocabulary polled was placed into a Wordle.

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If you haven't heard of Kahoot! yet, you've got to check it out! The teachers in our community frequently rave about the free website teachers can use to play review games and quizzes with their students. Bonus: Kids can log in to the platform from any device, even their cell phones.

Last week, teacher Beth asked for some specific advice on how to use the site: "Can anyone give me ideas for how they use Kahoot! in their classrooms? I'm not sure I'm using it as effectively as I could. Thanks!"

Beth, we've got you covered. Check out these ideas for using Kahoot! in your classroom from real teachers:

1. How to get started: "Go to getkahoot.com and create a free account. You can search the public quiz games or create one of your own. I'm not even that tech-savvy, but I played around with it and figured it out. It's pretty simple." - Dawn K.

After you've created an account, launch a game and then have students input the unique pin at kahoot.it.
2. Tap into the kids' love of technology and competitive natures... "There's a new 'ghost' feature that lets the kids play against their previous score. They love it!" - Suzanne K.

3. ... But still keep the volume at a minimum. "I play calmer music from Pandora if the Kahoot! music is too overstimulating for the students. If they get too rowdy, I limit how often we do it until they get the message." - Jo Marie S.

4. Use the results to direct classroom activity organization. "I use the data as a way to organize and pull small groups." - Renee Q.
5. Assess student understanding. "It works great for assessing where students might be missing a concept or content." -
6. Zero in on the needs of individual students. "You can get detailed reports of which child missed which questions!" -
7. Conclude class with a quick round. "You can use it at the end of class or after notes for a formative assessment. I always have to do it at the end because they get too excited if I do it in the middle of class." - Nikki S.

8. Try it for review (and check out comparable free sites, too!). "I love it for review! I make my own, but also search others and duplicate, then pick and choose questions that work best for the material I'm covering. I love it, and so do the kids. Another new favorite site like this is Plickers. Check it out!" - Stephanie H.

9. Need a last-minute time filler? "Create at least one Kahoot! game for each of your units, then play it when you have a random, unexpected ten minutes to fill." - Erin F.

10. Warm up the class with a game. "I use it as my class starter. I do a quick five questions on topics we've covered or material learned from a previous class." - Darenda B.

On the flip side, you could also do this as a pre-assessment, piquing students' interests and gauging what they already know about the topic by asking questions before teaching the material.
11. Assess students' knowledge before the start of a unit. "I use is it for mental/oral starters in maths and I've also used it to assess subject knowledge before starting a new topic and after, although I think Socrative is better for that." - Emma L.

12. Include a game in your sub plans. "Here's a simple sub plan: The students play a game of Kahoot!, and after each question, have the students explain why that's the correct answer." - Calypso B. Love it!

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12 Ways to Use Kahoot! in Your Classroom - WeAreTeachers

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If you haven't heard of Kahoot! yet, you've got to check it out! The teachers in our community frequently rave about the free website teachers can use to play review games and quizzes with their students. Bonus: Kids can log in to the platform from any device, even their cell phones.

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Jesus Flores using Kahoot with his students

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Jesus Flores using Kahoot to review fractions with his students. F.S. Lara Academy, middle school math-September 2016.

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"High School Students Learning by Skype"

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"High School Students Learning by Skype"

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This article from U.S. News and World Report, though dated, offers a few snapshots about how Skype in the Classroom has been used to connect learners from distant settings.  It also hints at how the use of Skype may evolve.  One of the biggest advantages of Skype is the positive social interaction that occurs through this platform, which in turn champions collaborative learning. https://www.usnews.com/education/high-schools/articles/2011/10/11/high-school-students-learning-by-skype

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Kansas Students Solve Water Crisis for School

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Skype in the classroom creates global citizens

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Skype makes global learning possible while empowering students to play a part in solving some of the world's problems. These teachers are taking their students on the ultimate field trip with Skype and inspiring them to make a difference.

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This is a video used to show how Prezi can be used in the classroom. This was created for NSC: EDU 416.

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"The 32 Most Innovative Online Educational Tools to Use in 2015"

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"The 32 Most Innovative Online Educational Tools to Use in 2015"

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Retrieved from Noodle, this article highlights and briefly describes 32 technology tools for high school and college students.  Some of the tools are more applicable to the classroom than others, but many of them do promote the objectives of InTASC 3.  The tools are split into the following categories: classroom connectors, interactive information providers, language learning tools, online courses, presentation makers, productivity boosters, and reading enhancers. https://www.noodle.com/articles/32-innovative-online-tools-to-use-in-2015

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How you can use Animoto in your classroom!

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This is a video demonstrating how to create a video on Animoto.com. You can make videos for your students or have students create their own to teach the class something!

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This is a photo sharing tool that is great for classroom and personal use.

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You know Newsela. It's the "must-have" teaching tool for reading differentiation in every 21st-century teacher's toolbox. Since their launch in 2013, Newsela now serves 13 million students and over 1 million educators. In fact, the text differentiation guru has grown 60% over the past year alone. And according to CEO Matthew Gross, they're just getting started.

Completely revolutionizing the way students access and interact with texts, Newsela has their sights on a new challenge: engagement. According to a recent Gallup student poll, about half of our students feel engaged at school, and one out of every five feels "actively disengaged." And it's taking a toll on the classroom. Currently, 39% of teachers are satisfied with their jobs.

"We've been listening to teachers, and we keep hearing the same thing: our reading experiences in schools are just not landing with students. Especially textbooks," Gross mentioned to Education World, "Which led us to the fundamental problem: In school, students are consuming content that looks nothing like their real-world text experiences."

And so, Newsela is setting out to create a new category of product, aiming to tackle the elusive Reading Engagement Gap-the disparity between how students engage with the texts they access for school, and how they engage with everyday digital content. Newsela's new Instructional Content Platform will combine three things: "personalized, accessible content with integrated assessments and new insights into student learning."

"We started asking ourselves, 'What's changing about reading in the digital world? Where's the gap?'" Gross continued, "And we realized that when students access texts online, they are interactive, they are at grade-level.... Is it really any wonder that we lose students in the classroom with traditional texts?"

Newsela made huge waves for Common Core educators at the end of last year with the addition of The Library: their extensive collection of historical primary sources, biographies, and famous speeches. The next phase of their development will not disappoint.

"The main vision of this expansion is to have Newsela at the core of your classes. We want to replace the textbook. We're including more content, in easy-to-access bundles aligned to your curriculum, your standards," said Gross, "You're also going to see a lot of new features layered on the texts themselves, making them more interactive...all beginning this fall."

Gross stressed the element of accessibility for teachers and the ease of alignment, adding that this next brave phase in Newsela's development has been a part of their mission from the very beginning: getting kids engaged in reading, embracing a rigorous and accessible academic atmosphere, and keeping the classroom up-to-date with our world's ever-changing digital landscape. He also hinted at future "augmented reality" elements of the Newsela experience, suggesting the "game-ification" of the texts with more interactive quizzes and expanded layers of interaction.

Gross says keeping the experience of the student at the center of the work is an essential inspiration to their innovation. "We're online, we're seeing tweets of teachers and parents...pictures of their students reading...this is what motivates us."

And we get it. When you see tweets like these on a daily basis, how can you not get excited?

At the ISTE Conference in San Antonio, Texas on June 27 th, Newsela announced three of the new super cool products coming this fall:

Newsela's new " Units" will include organizing commonly taught topics in teacher-friendly ways, high-level guiding questions, and PRO Text Sets, which "pair specific articles with tips and strategies for teachers."

"Power Words" will allow students to get word definitions as they read, at their reading level. "The words highlighted in articles are high-frequency and high-utility (known as 'tier 2 words', so students who master these words will be well prepared to read complex texts across a variety of subjects." Included with this new feature is a series of vocabulary practice activities, as well as the ability to create a personal word wall.

Finally, Newsela will be expanding its elementary content for younger readers: 3 new articles a day!
Written by Keith Lambert, Education World Associate Contributing Editor Lambert is an English / Language Arts teacher in Connecticut.

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Newsela Tackles the Reading "Engagement Gap"

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You know Newsela. It's the "must-have" teaching tool for reading differentiation in every 21st-century teacher's toolbox. Since their launch in 2013, Newsela now serves 13 million students and over 1 million educators. In fact, the text differentiation guru has grown 60% over the past year alone.