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As a truly dedicated learner, I never stop researching and finding better ways to do a job. My innate passion for continued growth and understanding has allowed me to survive pursuing my masters more than once. My current goal is to earn my Doctorate, and I am on my way. One of the things I love about this challenge is the opportunity to see new tools that I may not have used before. In this process I had the chance to learn Mentimeter, which I had never used before. I can definitely see how this tool can be used in a classroom. I would have enjoyed comparing similar tools to the ones that were provided in this task and tell why one may be better than the other. It may have been good to create a Form in Google to analyze the similarities and differences in the tools used, like a rubric. Knowing how to use rubrics, create rubrics and to analyze the results is a powerful classroom tool for a teacher and allows the teacher to analyze his or her own measure of greatness amongst student works. One of the main take-aways I have from this process is that trying out new tools is a way to find new that you may use again. Reflecting on why we use tools is important and knowing the best ones for the job allows us as professionals to quickly decide the right one for the upcoming activity

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I used the tool Tinyurl.com to create a shortcut link to my google doc. The link is below. Using tiny url has given me the opportunity to make my link simple and meaningful for others who may be typing it or writing it down. It also allows the person trying to remember it a chance to actual be able to remember it. Google, like many other web 2.0 websites, uses a string of letters and numbers that are nearly impossible for the average user to remember. Having something easy, like the one I created above, can help students in a classroom easily navigate to a site when not in class and allow the teacher a bit of comfort in knowing if they didn't get information, you can easily share it virtually for them.

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Please provide for me one sentence explaining why you love to teach. Write your name on the line after it so I know who wrote the sentence. When you complete the sentence, make sure and change the color of your answer and name to be unique to only you.

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Google Docs is an amazingly versatile tool that wins in simplicity and in versatility. Allowing students to collaborate in a document, the teachers to see the edits as they happen or in reflection, and the changes to take place in a fluid manner, can't be beat. Students never lose their work with this tool and teachers have a way to comment and support learning along the way, right inside the document. Its not just great for English and composition writing, but for any class in any writing or information gathering situation.

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Lino is a bulletin board that allows the user to create and share and build alone or with a group. I can definitely see a use for this in the classroom. Teachers can use it to gather resources, to allow students to collaborate or to share ideas together as individuals. I created a lino with resources on resources you can use at DiscoveryEducation.com. Here is a link to my lino:

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lino is an online web sticky note service that can be used to post memos, to-do lists, ideas, and photos anywhere on an online web canvas. lino is a completely free service that runs on all popular web browsers.

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Kahoot is one of my favorite classroom tools. I love to share this tool and love to use it even more. With my own students, I will create a kahoot they can use to study, but we will play it on class first. Once they have sufficiently studied, I will than have them do Quizlet live and I will change up the format or the answer choices to make the students think a little harder. Kahoot gives the students a chance to compete, while remaining semi unknown. I will allow them to chose their own name and keep it anonymous so they don't feel bad if they don't know everything yet. Of course, we almost always know the fast finger opponent by the end of the game. It is a great way to start a topic by learning whether students know much, but its also a fun check for understanding along the way. Here is the link to the fun kahoot I created.

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Padlet is a flexible learning tool that allows the user to collect artifacts, ideas and insights individually or while collaborating with others. Classrooms find this tool extremely useful because of the flexibility in its use and quick access for sharing ideas. It is definitely a great way to prepare for a project as an individual by gathering information, or a way to show off the classrooms finished projects once the learning on a topic is complete. As a STEM teacher, I can see my programming classes posting their final projects or games all in one board to make it easier for other classes to visit and learn from. I can see my graphic design classes sharing their final art projects. And, I can see my audiovisual classes sharing their newest video productions or posters for others to enjoy. The possibilities are endless.

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This tool is so much fun to use. I can see using this as a quick way to ensure understanding when teaching on a topic, or just to gather information and statistics on your students. I used it as a way to find out about teacher friends and loved to see the word cloud come alive and the slides on the questions as people responded. There are a lot of tools similar to this, but this one packs many concepts into one very cool presentation

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I created a survey that included 5 questions, which you can view here. The gathering of information is quick and easy and can be shared as you go with students, or kept private if you were quizzing the students for the gathering of data for understanding the topic. You have the benefit of making the posts anonymous, as I do when surveying each year about cyberbullying and student online activity. The anonymity allows the student to speak their mind without fearing retribution. Or, you can gather data by user to see what each individual is thinking or what they understand at that moment. This type of survey allows you to change the progress of a lesson if everyone is lost, or allows you to pick up the speed if the students all know the material. You can save the data and chart it for your records or share the charts with others. Teachers can use this in many different situations and the limitations only exist in the users creative mind.

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This word cloud generator is a unique version of the type of tool. As a creator, you can share the generator or fill it in all on your own. As answers are entered, the same words entered more than once cause the word size to increase in comparison to other words, making it easy to see the most popular comments. This would be a great tool for students when discussing novels and looking for themes or when researching for science and studying concepts. It is extremely simple but makes for a great resource on the fly!

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AnswerGarden " Where is your favorite vacation destination?

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AnswerGarden is a new minimalistic brainstorm tool for online brainstorming, real time audience participation and classroom feedback.