Trials and Tribulations of an Inclusion teacher
I am just coming off two exhausting days at an amazing tech conference in Greenville, South Carolina. The Greenville County School District puts on a FREE conference each summer called the Upstate Technology Conference. #2016UTC It is a mix of people who represent professional organizations or classroom teachers from around the southeast. A fellow inclusion teacher attended many of the classes along side me and we both walked away so excited about some of the new tech that we were shown that we can use in our classroom immediately.
Here are the FREE programs/websites/apps that I am most excited about: EdPuzzle Edpuzzle is a tool that allows you to crop videos found online, add voice overs, and put questions throughout the video to check for student understanding. It monitors the student progress and collects the data for you! It will even tell you what percentage of the video the student watched and allows you to prevent students from fast forwarding the video. It only takes a few minutes to alter the video so you could make multiple videos based on your students' needs and assign them to the students individually or as a class. Mystery Skype Mystery Skye allows your students to travel around the world and learn about places and cultures that they may otherwise never experience. The students on each side of the call ask one another 20 questions to determine where in the world the other group is. Students can do this through history questions, math questions, current events, geography, etc. It does take some prep ahead of time because the teacher needs to plan the time and date ahead of time with the other teacher, but Skype makes this easy for you. Super Quiz Add-On for Google Super Quiz allows you to assign students differentiated remediation based on how they answer questions posed in a Google Form. You simply need to get the add-on and plug in the links to videos, games, etc. and students are emailed what they need to complete. ThingLink ThingLink allows students to use a picture and link a variety of mediums to that picture. One example I saw was a picture of the solar system. Where each planet should be was the link to a video a student made about that planet. There are so many possibilities for this! It is another way to present information instead of always using PowerPoint, Slides, or Presi. Haiku Deck Haiku Deck is a presentation tool that already has thousands of pictures already loaded into the program. Instead of your students "googling" for pictures of most of class time, students can simply choose from the program's archives without having to worry about copyright. I look forward to trying these out with my students come fall!
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