Technology Toolbox by Jesse Herndon

Grounded Tech Article

jherndon03 — 2024-09-19 17:37:06 UTC

This is a helpful article that speaks on the different methods used to plan using a TPACK model.

Applications

jherndon03 — 2024-09-19 18:11:06 UTC

Gamma

jherndon03 — 2024-09-24 18:10:26 UTC

Gamma is helpful in creating presentations with AI.

Applications:

After going over a lesson in accounting, students will use Gamma to create a presentation to help them remember the main points of the curriculum. The student will have to come up with creative prompts and keywords that will effectively create a presentation that connects with the material they learned.

Curipod

jherndon03 — 2024-09-24 18:16:50 UTC

Curipod is a website that helps teachers and students create engaging content that allows for collaboration within the classroom. With this tool, a teacher can submit a presentation and create an interactive feature where students can interact within the presentation.

From a teacher perspective, this can be used to add assessment points within the presentation. As you are giving a presentation on the accounting equation, there can be checkpoints where students are given stimulating questions and enriching content to get their minds thinking. You could create or use a pre-existing slideshow and add it to Curipod. with this, you can deliver the content required but also engage your students with prompting questions and activities that Curipod creates in your slideshow.

jherndon03 — 2024-10-01 17:14:23 UTC

GIMKIT is a website tool that allows for information and content to be put into a format where students can play games to learn.

As a teacher, this tool can be useful in getting students excited and engaged in learning. For example, if we have been going over content for the last 2 weeks and have a business test coming up on Friday, this tool can be used to help students review the content. Instead of a review sheet or study paper, students can log on to GimKit and play games to review the material. Business questions that could appear on their test can be asked in fun and entertaining ways so that students can retain the information.

TPACK.org

jherndon03 — 2024-10-29 05:13:08 UTC

This website has many great resources regarding TPACK and can be a great starting point for research as there are numerous beneficial links regarding the topic.

Follow/Learn/Share

jherndon03 — 2024-10-29 05:36:35 UTC

SAMR Article

jherndon03 — 2024-10-29 13:32:49 UTC

This is a great source for the SAMR model because it gives lots of information on teh subject and helps you to structure the SAMR model into your lessons.

Kahoot

jherndon03 — 2024-10-29 13:57:04 UTC

Kahoot is a website that allows you to make game-like quizzes and reviews for pretty much any subject. This can be helpful for reviewing before a test or some type of project. It is fun for students because there is a leaderboard and other features that make it competitive. This would be a great tool for introducing a topic in business. If you are introducing a lesson about advertising internationally, you could create a Kahoot that asks questions about different cultural standards and norms that may be different from those in the U.S.

EdPuzzle

jherndon03 — 2024-10-29 14:02:39 UTC

EdPuzzle is a great resource that allows you to embed questions and checkpoints in videos to encourage student engagement. The students watch the video and answer periodical questions that can ask about the specific content in the video at that moment.

Padlet

jherndon03 — 2024-10-29 14:10:07 UTC

Padlet is a great resource that allows students to create their own post board that they can share with students and teachers to display their ideas, projects, and pretty much anything they want. Much like the tech tool project I am doing right now, students have control over how they set up their Padlet and can design it for their liking. For a business class, this would be extremely beneficial. For an entrepreneurship class, the students could create their own Padlet page that acts as a portfolio or personal storage page where they can put resources they have found during the semester. The students could find certain blogs or entrepreneurs that they liked and put their resources in one place that is easily accessible.

Google Workspace

jherndon03 — 2024-10-29 16:26:48 UTC

Google tools such as docs, slides, classrooms, and forms are a great way of getting students working collaboratively. These tools provide students with their own workspace that they can share with peers to work collectively on projects and assignments. These resources are perfect for the students because they allow for independent work but can also be used collaboratively.

Stukent

jherndon03 — 2024-10-29 16:44:31 UTC

Stukent is an online simulation tool that allows students to experience virtual internships that are known as "simternships". These simulation internships put students in a fictional position at a fictional company, allowing them to get real-world experience. With this tool, students can experience being an accountant or advertising director at a company and simulate what these jobs actually entail.

SAMR Model

jherndon03 — 2024-10-29 16:53:29 UTC

Tech Integration Using the SAMR Model

jherndon03 — 2024-10-29 16:55:19 UTC

This is a helpful resource as it explains the SAMR Model and gives some information on integrating technology into the classroom.

Lesson Plan #1

jherndon03 — 2024-10-29 17:13:37 UTC

Canva Podcast Assignment

jherndon03 — 2024-10-31 18:30:21 UTC

This podcast assignment gets students in the content and allows them to create their own podcast that explains a topic or discusses an issue in the classroom environment.

Lesson Plan #2

jherndon03 — 2024-12-05 19:21:29 UTC

Teacher Interview

jherndon03 — 2024-12-05 19:25:06 UTC

App Chat Tool

jherndon03 — 2024-12-10 18:42:42 UTC

Socrative

jherndon03 — 2024-12-15 21:08:31 UTC

Socrative is an assessment tool that can be used to create quizzes, polls, and exit tickets that can be used to assess student learning. What is nice about this tool is that the results are instant and can give important feedback in the middle of a lesson. With this tool, I could have it within my lessons to create a strategic break point where I can assess my students and they can have a small break that lets them play a game or answer some short questions to help gauge their information retention.

Plickers

jherndon03 — 2024-12-15 21:27:48 UTC

Plickers is a tool that allows for fast and efficient assessment in the classroom. Students have custom QR codes on their desks that they can hold up to give a particular answer for a question depending on the direction of the QR code. With this method, students can give answers anonymously and there will be a display of the percentages for each answer (A, B, C, D). I could use this in my BMIT classroom by placing these questions in my presentations so that I can assess the students learning as I am going through the slides and revisit tough topics if the students do not answer well.

BizCafe

jherndon03 — 2024-12-15 22:03:53 UTC

BizCafe is a simulation tool that allows students to get firsthand experience in business subjects such as business management, marketing, and accounting. With this tool, students will run and operate their own coffee shop and learn how to do so through the learning course that is provided with the curriculum.

Quizalize

jherndon03 — 2024-12-15 23:00:37 UTC

With Quizalize, quizzes and tests can be created to form easy and efficient exit tickets for students to assess student learning. Quizalize also offers an AI powered quiz tool that allows you to put in prompts or questions and it will create testable questions that you can use. What is nice about this feature is that it creates multiple questions and you can pick and choose the ones that work for you and edit them to best suit the students. I could see myself using this in my classroom because I could ask the AI to create real world scenarios that allow the students to apply what they learned in class. For example, I might ask the AI to create a question bank about what target audience would be best for an outdoor equipment shop to target in a suburban area.

ConceptBoard

jherndon03 — 2024-12-15 23:19:01 UTC

With ConceptBoard, this app allows students and teachers to collaborate in one area where they can bounce ideas and brainstorm new projects. For this project, I would assign students to groups and have them make a ConceptBoard that they can all collaborate on. This would be an easy area where I could also have access so I can follow their progress and even give insight or advice as well. Students could brainstorm a new entrepreneurial product or business plan and use the ConceptBoard to track progress and ideas.

GoSoapBox

jherndon03 — 2024-12-15 23:26:20 UTC

GoSoapBox is an online tool that allows teachers to assess students and for students to communicate with teachers effectively. One of the interesting features was the confusion barometer which shows the level of understanding from the class as students can ping if they are not understanding a concept without physically raising their hand or asking questions. With this tool, more students would be prone to showing confusion because they would not be embarrassed to raise their hands or ask a question because it would remain anonymous.

Mentimeter

jherndon03 — 2024-12-15 23:33:22 UTC

With this tool, you can create easy surveys and assessment tools to gain quick feedback from students. The graphs and charts display the information in easy-to-read ways that allow students and the teacher to see the real-time updates. This can be an easy way to assess students either before class or after the lesson by asking questions that will prepare you for what you are going to need to spend more or less time on in the lesson.

Adobe Spark

jherndon03 — 2024-12-15 23:39:35 UTC

With Adobe Spark, students can use the Adobe tools to create visual presentations and infographics to show their learning. With this tool, they can create a infographic that looks like a social media post or a video that summarizes their learning in a creative style. This way, they can creatively present their findings in a way that is different from answering a question prompt or selecting the right box. For my classroom, I would have students create a post or video where they can display the things they have learned or created in the class. This way, they can visually articulate their learning process instead of just giving a written answer.

Mahara

jherndon03 — 2024-12-15 23:42:43 UTC

Mahara is an electronic portfolio tool that allows students to create and share personal learning portfolios. With this tool, students can upload images, videos, and posts that display their learning and can also be used to track their progress over the semester or school year. With this tool, I would have students in my entrepreneurial class keep a personal portfolio of their product progress and the important lessons and tools they have learned and found throughout the course so they can go back and easily identify these tools in the future.

Screencastify

jherndon03 — 2024-12-15 23:46:33 UTC

With Screencastify, students can record and share their screen to make an interactive video where they are visually presenting something on their device. With this tool, students will gain practice in presenting in front of a camera as well as organizing their material in a way that is precise and understandable. For my class, I would have my marketing students use this app to record and present a marketing plan because it would help them practice presenting in front of a camera, and it would also help them organize their presentation in a way that is understandable and to the point.

Piktochart

jherndon03 — 2024-12-15 23:51:05 UTC

Piktochart is an infographic-making tool that lets students create visual presentations of what they have learned. With this tool, they can use templates and other designs to organize their learning in way that is visually appealing and easy to read. This tool also offers AI technology that helps design and organize information.

Canva

jherndon03 — 2024-12-16 00:01:54 UTC

Canva is a presentation tool where students can make engaging presentations with preset templates or create new designs. With this tool, they can organize their thoughts, ideas, and findings in visual form. Students can create graphic organizers, infographics, Venn diagrams, and all sorts of visual information tools that can help them display their learning progress in creative ways.

Wave

jherndon03 — 2024-12-16 00:06:45 UTC

Wave is an accounting and finance tool designed for small businesses that students can use to track finances. With this tool, they can track payments, expenses, revenue, and other finance categories. This way, they can practice keeping track of financial assets and organize their money efficiently.

Bizplan

jherndon03 — 2024-12-16 00:10:55 UTC

Bizplan is a tech tool that helps students learn about and design their own business plan. With this tool, students can come up with their own product and design a plan that will help them grow the product into a successful business. Students will be able to learn about building a business plan, use templates to design their own plan, and share their plan with others.

MagicSchool

jherndon03 — 2024-12-16 00:16:33 UTC

MagicSchool is an AI tool that lets students explore the capabilities of AI in a safe and education-based environment. With this tool, students can learn how to design effective AI prompts, use its capabilities to learn more effectively and collaborate with AI to create strong material. In my classroom, I would use MagicSchool to help students practice their interview skills after high school. One of the tools is a custom chatbot where you can input certain criteria or prompts so that the AI acts as something of your choosing. With this tool, students could have the chatbot act as a hiring manager at a tech company or the CEO of a Fortune 500 company. This way, students can practice answering questions in real-time and getting instant feedback.

TPACK Diagram #1

jherndon03 — 2024-12-16 00:19:05 UTC

TPACK Diagram #2

jherndon03 — 2024-12-16 00:27:47 UTC

Book Creator

jherndon03 — 2024-12-16 18:11:48 UTC

Book Creator is an online tool that allows students to create and share their own "books" which can consist of information, pictures, visual aids, and any other resource that they want in their projects. With this tool, they can work together or on their own to make a book that can give instructions, tell people about themselves, or share any information they want in order to complete their task.