Kami is an excellent tool to use to post assignments in Google Classroom for students to annotate, draw, highlight or present their responses on the document.
Kami is also an excellent tool to present new content on the smartboard. I use Kami on a regular basis when I present a new lesson by displaying the book pages on the smartboard and requiring students to take notes during class. By displaying the questions and answers on the smartboard it requires the students to stay on task.
Kami engages the students by allowing them the flexibility to choose the tool of their choice (highlighter, textbox, add media, choose shapes or handwriting) to express their answers.
It engages and meets the needs of all my students because it has a read-aloud feature in which the text is read to them and a dictionary feature in which the student can click on a word and the definition will appear.
This is an instructional strategy that I use to require students to take notes after direct instruction. I highlight the words in red so that the students can see the answers.
This is an example of a student using Kami to submit their work through Google Classroom.
I use Kami a lot during direct instruction. It's a tool that is easy to use after I have scanned in the worksheet, I can easily write on and highlight answers.
Edpuzzle is a platform to present videos in a meaningful and engaging way. Teachers can choose from thousands of videos or upload their own and embed their own questions or audio.
Edpuzzle provides easy integration with Google Classroom so that students can access the video from home or at school.
I use Edpuzzle with every lesson I teach by researching the topic and previewing the video and questions. I have found that my 7th-grade students prefer the Brain Pop or animated videos and the questions are more on their level.
Edpuzzle keeps the students engaged because it requires them to answer the question (the video will not proceed until the question is answered). It allows them to rewatch that portion of the video as many times as necessary in order to answer the question. It also provides immediate feedback on whether their answer was correct.
I have used Edpuzzle a lot to reinforce concepts after teaching. I love the fact that students are forced to watch the movie because they have to answer the questions.
I love the way that Edpuzzle keeps a gradebook and it can now be exported to Google Classroom.
Edpuzzle has a large selection of educational videos already created with questions.
Google Forms is a tool to use for formative or summative assessments that provides multiple question types. Teachers can create their assessments inside Google Classroom or under Google Forms and upload them to Google Classroom. The greatest advantage to using Google Forms is it grades automatically except for open-ended questions.
Since Google Forms is posted in Google Classroom it can be completed at home or at school.
I use Google Forms as a formative assessment after every lesson I teach by typing or copying and pasting the worksheet questions from the teacher's textbook.
Google Forms engages and meets the needs of my students because it provides immediate feedback on the grade they made. It provides me with the data to analyze which questions were missed the most so that I can determine whether to remediate or reteach. It provides a response editing option to build the questions so that it allows the student to go on to the next section based on their answer.
Instead of giving worksheets for formative assessments, I always create a Google Form. I love the fact that it is automatically graded.
Google Form provides data that I use to see which questions the students didn't understand or had a problem.
Google Forms also provides percentages that show how many students chose the right or wrong answers. I used this data to determine if I needed to reteach the lesson or just go over certain questions and explain why that answer was the wrong answer.
BrainPOP is an instructional tool that contains standards-aligned content for every grade and subject. It provides lesson plan suggestions on to incorporate the features into each lesson.
BrainPOP provides easy integration with Google Classroom for students to access the assignments at home or at school.
I have used the BrainPOP videos, quizzes, and worksheets to teach the lesson. I have also used the vocabulary flip cards to teach the vocabulary at the beginning of the unit. It requires the students to write the definition and use it in a sentence. They can then use the virtual cards to flip them over to study the vocabulary words.
BrainPOP engages the students with the beeping robot because my students love him. The quizzes and worksheets can be modified to meet the needs of individual students. Vocabulary words can be assigned according to ability levels.
These are my classes that I set up in BrainPOP. Each class can be differentiated to meet the needs of individual students.
This is examples of lessons that were assigned to a class. I like the way that shows how many students have completed the assignment and it records the grades on the lesson.
I used BrainPOP to teach the classification system of living things. I like the variety of educational strategies that are available.
Kahoot!
Kahoot! is an excellent game-based toolkit that provides educators with a stratey to engage students to review for assessments.
Kahoot! can be played as a whole class or in teams in the classroom. It can also be posted in Google Classroom so students can play it at home to study for assessments.
I have created Kahoots to review for summative assessments and posted them in Google Classroom for students to study at home. The day before tests we play the game several times.
Kahoot! keeps the students engaged because they love and beg to play it!
Kids love playing Kahoot! They like to put nicknames, but I have to require them to use part of their real name.
These are some of the games that I created from the units that we covered according to our standards.
I love the feedback that it gives me for the whole class, number of players and the amount of time that was spent on the review.