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Feel free to check out my favorite resources for the classroom. Below, you will find a few of my favorite interactive platforms for learning, design tools, and more! The purpose of this page is to help you find the next best tool to use in your classroom. As a part of my personal learning portfolio, this page of resources explains different platforms, along with their affordances and constraints.
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Nearpod is a platform that allows teachers to create engaging digital lessons. Students can interact with the material and collaborate with other students. This program lets teachers upload slideshows like Microsoft Powerpoint and Google Slides and bring fun into the classroom. The application can be used as a teacher-paced or student-paced opportunity to immerse in the lesson. In my classroom, I use this platform as another way to "lecture" my content in a student-centered style. I upload my slides and videos and use the application features (collaboration boards, games, and question features) to have students learn.
Affordances
Easy to use from a teacher and student perspectives
Teacher pace or student pace opportunities
Interactive, Engaging, and Hands-on
Works well with Google and Microsoft applications
Create a new presentation, upload one you have made, or choose from a library of prepared lessons
Subscription available for more features
Constraints
Can be tricky to navigate
Subscription available for more features
Takes longer to load with more people once it
Quizizz is an educational tech tool that can assess students' knowledge about content material. It's very user-friendly, interactive, and engaging for students. Teachers are able to create quizzes that can be personalized for their instruction. I use this as a formative check of my student's understanding of my lessons and as a resource for test preparation.
Affordances
Interactive, Engaging, and Hands-on
Subscription available for more features
Teachers can create lessons with built-in quizzes
Teachers have access to student's data from quizzes
Premade questions and quizzes available for teachers
Game features that allow for more user/player experience (powerups)
Can be used with live play or asynchronous play
Customizable with video, audio, and images
Multiple choice, written response, and true/false questions
Constraints
Subscription available for more features
No direct and instant written feedback from teachers to students
Quizzizz [@quizizz. (n.d.). Twitter. Retriever July 28, 2022, from https://mobile.twitter.com/quizizz
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Google Classroom is an online platform for teachers to use in the classroom to reach out to students. They are able to upload assignments, materials, links, and other resources that students can access all in one place. Teachers can also have students submit their assignments which allows for a location for assignments to be graded. The platform allows for parent access as well. I use this every day for as a place for my students to find coursework and other resources.
Affordances
Digital hub for classwork digital classwork materials
Allows for teachers to upload assignments, material, links, and resources for students
Allows for teachers to schedule uploads of assignments in advance
User-friendly for teachers and students
Parental Access
Place for students to turn in assignments and receive grades/feedback
Teachers can post announcements for students and schedule posts
Teachers can upload rubrics to help with grading
Classes for any purpose
Constraints
No ability to use standard-based grading easily
Struggles with using Non-Google applications, such as Microsoft
Canva [@canva. (n.d.). Twitter. Retriever July 28, 2022, from https://mobile.twitter.com/canva
Canva is a digital tool used for creativity in multiple disciplines. This application allows users to design images, infographics, presentations, and more. Users can use any premade design options or create their own designs. I use this to create presentations and infographics for my students.
Affordances
User-friendly
Free templates for a wide range of topics and design needs or create from scratch
Enhances the learning experience and allows for more creative opportunities
Templates for learning such as graphs and charts
Upload images or use images from the internet
Editing tools
Creations are saved in one's own account
Integrate with Google Classroom and Clever
Canva for Education allows upgraded options for teachers
Constraints
Can be confusing at times
More difficult to use specific design tools on computers versus touch screen devices
Paid subscriptions for more options, the free version is limited
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