Tricia Collins

2nd Grade

Silverwood Elementary

Google Classroom, Zaption

This has been a fabulous platform for bringing other educational websites and tools to my students. Since my students are 2nd graders, having them go to different websites and working their way through the website to get to the part that I am using is almost impossible. It would be simply too difficult to do with 2nd graders. But using Google Classroom has allowed me to set up a lesson with a title and a direct link to the activity. I have set up a link to Zaption, Ed1Stop, AR, IXL, Lexia, iReady, and other websites for my students to easily find their way to. And in my own classroom, I have each student's login and password saved on their Google Classroom tab for each of these websites. So I have found this Google Classroom to be an amazing tool for bringing specific educational activities to my students from the educational part of the internet. It has impacted my teaching by allowing me to teach each child individually, and at his/her own speed, but also they are learning more because they are in control of the pace and interactively involved. It has helped me as a teacher because the students are so much more involved with a topic, understanding it better, and learning about a topic using several different modalities.