Mrs. Paulk's EdTech Toolbox

🔨Tool #1

Pear Deck

I use Pear Deck to engage my students in my Google Slides presentations.
Pear Deck is an extension that can be added to Google Slides.
Pear Deck allows my students to anonymously share their knowledge or thoughts with their peers from their personal device.
Students will be engaged with drag and drop, drawing, multiple choice, and short answer activities to make them a part of my instruction.

On this slide, students are able to type which answer choice they feel is correct .

Once students select an answer, the teacher can see the frequency each answer choice was selected. The teacher can also lock their screens, so students do not change their answers as you are reviewing the question.

This is the teacher dashboard view. I can only see student names with this view. I can leave feedback and check for understanding.

🔨Tool #2

Flocabulary

Flocabulary is a website that has engaging lessons for all subjects using music.
Each lesson has a lyric video, vocabulary cards, vocabulary game, read and respond, quiz, and lyric lab.
Flocabulary lessons can be assigned easily through Google Classroom.
Teachers can choose which elements of the lesson they want their students to perform.
Flocabulary lessons are designed to boost student engagement, vocabulary, and retention of knowledge.

This is what the teacher sees when she selects a class to view assignments.

When you click on a lesson to assign, you can view all parts of the lesson beforehand. Also, if you just want to play the video as an activator for your lesson, you can come to this page as well.

One of the student activities is the Lyric Lab. This prompts students to create a rap using the vocabulary words they learned in their lesson.

🔨Tool #3

Google Forms

Google Forms is a tool that I use to collect information from my students that is self-grading.
Google Forms provides multiple choice, short answer, dropdown, scaled, and check box question types.
I also use Google Forms for other classroom activities such as escape rooms, selecting a name for our class pet, or choosing our class goal for Golden Feathers.
Google Forms can easily be assigned to Google Classroom.
Google Forms provides me with data as well such as most missed questions, class averages, and individual student responses.
There is a quiz mode on Google Forms that can be used to assign point values to questions and lock down student browsers to ensure academic integrity.

This is the page you see when you view your responses. It will let you review responses by question or individual responses. I like that I can see my class average and score distribution.

The form responses can be exported to an excel sheet which makes it easier to see student grades and responses. When I record a students grade, I highlight it in green.

This is the question analysis. I love how it shows me the percentage of students that selected each answer. I helps me correct any misunderstandings my students may have.

🔨Tool #4

Study Island

Study Island is a program aligned with the Georgia Standards of Excellence that allows teachers to assign standards based lessons and questions in many formats.
In Study Island, you can do whole group interactive sessions, assign practice, or assign assessments.
One of my favorite things about Study Island is that if you assign a practice on a grade-level standard and a student does not master it, the program automatically assigns a practice on the same standard, but from a grade level below to help scaffold the student's learning.

Study Island breaks down each students' percent correct by standard. This helps me know particular standards my students may have mastered and which ones they need more practice with.

Study Island correlates directly to the Georgia Standards of Excellence. Students can go to "GA Programs" and practice individual ELA, Math, Science, or Social Studies standards at any time. I like to have students go through these ready made practice sessions as a review for the Milestones.

Study Island also lets you do a group session with your students. The teacher facilitates a practice assignment and students answer in real time. This gives the teacher the opportunity to provide whole class feedback in real time. The teacher can then see individual scores after the session is finished on the teacher dashboard.

🔨Tool #5

Quizizz

Quizizz is a game-like assessment platform that gives teachers access to create and use quizzes on a wide variety of subject areas.
Students join the Quizizz game and then they answer questions on their individual devices at their own pace.
Students are competing for the most points, while not realizing they are showing what they have learned.
After the game is played, the teacher or student can review the most missed questions.
I love to use Quizizz as a way to check comprehension of our interactive read-aloud.
Quizizz has a library of ready made quizzes for any subject, topic, or concept.

This is how I can view student scores in a matrix. I can easily see the most missed questions along with student percentages.

My favorite part has to be the library of ready made quizzes for any topic! I even found comprehension quizzes for a novel I was teaching. It helped me engage my students without having to take the time make a quiz myself.

I can view single questions to see the frequency see that each answer choice was selected to correct any misconceptions.

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