Pear Deck is an EdTech tool that allows teachers to make their Google slides interactive and engaging. Teachers can create formative assessments using templates that are designed to work during any part of a teacher's lesson.

This tool is easily used by teachers and students. Whether it is used virtually or in person, it creates an engaging atmosphere. Students are able to respond and teachers can quickly assess student knowledge.

I have used this Pear Deck to engage students during openings and closings. It is a quick assessment to see what they already know and what they have learned.

The students are engaged and interact when using this tool. Each student's response is recorded and from the teacher dashboard, you can view student responses.

Google slides is a program that can be used for presentation purposes. Teachers can use this for a daily agenda, presenting a lesson, student work, and collaborative learning.

Teachers can use this tool in a whole group lesson and display the slides on the board or share the slides with students to view on their individual Chromebooks.

This tool is used daily in the classroom. This serves as our agenda for the day. We also use this tool with add-ons such as Pear Deck to make it more interactive for students.

This tool is useful when meeting the needs of students. Students are able to see the schedule for the day. When using an add-on such as Pear Deck students are able to engage in learning by answering questions that the teacher has pre-made for the slides.

Blooket is an EdTech tool that is game based. This tool allows teachers to create question sets and then launch the game. These quizzes can be used in a variety of game modes. This platform can be used for group competitions or solo study.

Teachers can use this tool to assess students in a game type of mode. Students answer individual questions to earn points. This can be done in person through the competition aspect of the tool or teachers can assign solo study for students to complete individually. Teachers can pull reports that show the students level of understanding of a certain topic.

I love using blooket for math fact fluency. Students also love using this tool because they are competing amongst their peers. Students seem to be more engaged when you turn learning into a game.

Students can use their own devices to login and complete a group competition or solo study. All students can participate and stay engaged. The competitiveness of the games makes students want to study harder and work harder so they can be a part of the fun.

Gimkit is an EdTech tool where students compete in a game mode by answering questions on their Chromebook. Games can be played in live mode or assigned as independent practice.

This tool can be used for quick formative assessments. It can be used in person and virtually for students to practice the standard that is being taught at the time.

This is another tool that I love to use in the classroom. It is much like blooket, but most of the games I use require students to work collaboratively.

Students can use their own devices to login and work collaboratively in a group competition or teachers can assign independent practice. All students can participate and stay engaged.

Flocabulary is an EdTech tool with hundreds of educational music videos for any subject area. Students can be assigned lessons that contain a music video, games, quizzes, and reading passages.

Flocabulary can be used during whole group instruction to introduce a new topic by presenting it on the board or teachers can assign Flocabulary lessons through Google Classroom to complete at their own pace.

I love using Flocabulary as an opening to lessons. Students enjoy songs and it catches their attention.

This tool is mainly used for openers. However, when assigned thru Google Classroom students are able to work at their own pace and re-watch, review, and interact.