Student response systems are a great way to get instant feedback to use as formative assessments during a lesson. These response systems can be used with students of any age, but work better with an older group of students who have access to cell phones, but these can be modified to be used with computers or iPads.
Socrative is great for instant scoring on quizes. Kahoot! is a fun interactive game like environment where students compete to answer the quickest. Both are great tools!
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Digital Citizenship is a buzz word in technology education! Prepare your kids to interactive online safely with lessons and interactives from Net Smartz Kids. Are you looking for a digital way for your students to illustrate ideas, tell stories, or just create? There are a lot of great digital storytelling tools, but students love to create comic strips. (Don't they love Graphic Novels, too?) It makes sense to use a fun and creative way to get students to understand storyboarding, planning their narrative, or even just illustrating vocabulary words. The ideas are endless for these tools. Try them out to find your favorite to use with your students! Younger GradesOlder GradesClass Dojo
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Do you want to illustrate ideas or vocabulary words? A great way to show how important vocabulary words or concepts are in a topic, you can use a word cloud. There are many word cloud creators for use with all grade levels! Here are a few examples:
It's the "most wonderful time of the year!" Work on building a snowman using this interactive (flash-based) You can use the following interactive (flash player) to digitally create snowflakes that are one of a kind just like you and I! You can save your snowflake, view other snowflakes that have been created, and share this wonderful interactive. |
Cristin M. DillardCristin M Dillard is the library media specialist at Banks School in Banks, Alabama. Mrs. Dillard’s previous role as high school social studies teacher permeates itself into her current role of LMS serving K-8 students. Both roles have allowed her to incorporate technology in a variety of ways to help students have an authentic voice and creative outlet through such means as publishing podcasts, newspapers, and posters, all using the latest EdTech tools. Archives
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