Pear Deck is a simple presentation tool designed to enhance student learning during a slideshow. Ideally, each student in the class should have their own device, and the fact that Pear Deck works on all platforms makes it a great fit for a 1:1 setting. Students use their devices to follow along with the teacher's slideshow on a classroom screen. Throughout, teachers can pause at points where they've added questions -- a variety of question types are available. Teachers can view students' responses to these questions immediately, as well as post the results on-screen for all students to see. On the setup side of things, teachers will need to take some time preparing presentations and adding the interactive elements that make the platform engaging. Pear Deck has made this process somewhat easier for teachers -- there's a built-in Google search tool to use when adding images and videos into slides. What's more, Pear Deck will helpfully cite any images inserted using this tool!
GoClass is a learning platform that allows teachers to create lessons and deliver them directly to students' mobile devices or computers. With a free account, teachers can create courses and develop lessons, share content, and assess student learning in real time. Lessons follow a specific structure: show (media and videos), explain (notes and examples), and ask (polls and assessments). Teachers can add individual students or upload an entire class with a .csv file. Students receive an email about how to get started with GoClass. To conduct a session, both teachers and students will need devices -- an optional projection screen can allow whole-class viewing. Teachers can then share content to student devices while simultaneously projecting the same or different content to the class. Teachers can scribble on an image or add an explanation to emphasize a concept. They can also time lectures and assessments and see which students are engaged with the presentation at a given time. Expanded features in the paid account include scheduling for flipped-class instruction, student note-taking and annotation, and space for additional student accounts and lesson plans. Blendspace is an easy-to-use platform for creating multimedia lessons that kids can access online. Using a drag-and-drop interface, you can organize videos, text, links, images, and quizzes into cubes, then organize them to create lessons, or "canvases, " for your students to complete independently. Content can be pulled from online sources as well as your own computer, Dropbox, or Google Drive. There's also a bookmarking tool that lets you add websites to your Blendspace collection. Students can then move through the content in a linear fashion, responding to prompts in a sidebar comment area or taking quizzes along the way. They can also create their own lessons that can be private or shared, or remix a lesson. With a free teacher account, you can create unlimited classes of up to 35 students. To join a class, students use a join code that you provide. A paid premium account allows students to collaborate with each other on lessons, allows users to record audio, and provides an extra layer of technical support. These canvases that are created can be embedded into a Moodle course or class site. SAS Curriculum Pathways is a free site that has resources for a variety of subjects including math, English, science, and Spanish. Teachers can create an account and make classes. Students just need the login for the class- they don't need to make an account. There are interactive activities/lessons and other tools provided on the site. Core subject teachers will find plenty of ideas and things to try at this site. Nearpod is a site and app that is used to create and deliver interactive presentations and assessments. On the site, teachers can create their own multimedia presentations or customize ones that are made public. A variety of things can be built into the presentations including videos, images, slideshows, polls, draw its(students directly write on the slide and submit), and open ended questions. Teachers control what screen the students see and can also share a student submission with each device. This is a very powerful tool but is limited in space for free accounts. Students get to the presentations by going to the site and submitting the class code or by launching the nearpod app on their device if they have it. Khan Academy is a free website that aims to promote self paced instruction. It houses thousands of academic videos that are placed into guided, adaptive instruction. The site focuses primarily on math but also offers video tutorials on a variety of topics in science, economics, the arts, and computing. There is a section on the site also dedicated towards individualized SAT test prep. Math Missions are also built into the site to make it more interactive. Teachers can use these videos and missions on the site to give students extra guidance and assistance. ClassFlow is a an all-in-one platform that teachers can use to create and deliever interactive, content-rich lessons across a variety of platforms (including Promethean ActivInspire). It is a great tool to use in traditional, blended, or flipped classrooms. After signing up, teachers can get started building lessons, creating assessments, and managing their classes. Lessons are similar to a PowerPoint or Flipchart lesson. However ClassFlow allows you to build in polls and assessments directly into your lessons. Assessment data is collected for teachers to use. This is a very powerful tool but will take some practice when first building it into your classes. |
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