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Mark Sheehe- Newport Middle School

Mark constantly finds creative ways to provide deeper learning for his students, at the same time keeping them engaged. Having the laptops on his room has enabled him to use a variety of appropriate technologies to collaborate and communicate. He uses groups effectively and you can tell that the students see the technology as a normal, daily element of learning- not just a computer that's pulled out occasionally.

I use Google Classroom on a daily basis:

All students can access information and assignments easier and it is organized.
I use the question feature at the end of the of a lesson for students to answer discussion questions. I can provide feedback and students can also comment. It's a great formative assessment tool and easy to grade as well
I use the Google Classroom About Page to display Comp Book pages for students to view when absent and keep track of what their Comp Book should look like.

Padlets - I use these for students to display information when working in groups or individually.

Students seem to like Padlet and the teacher has a lot of power to control what students put on there.

Questioning Feature of Google Classroom

Pear Deck gives teachers the ability to insert questions, polls, and a variety of interactives into a Slides presentation. Students view the presentation and complete the embedded tasks as they learn keeping them more engaged than just listening to a lecture. They can ask questions, draw on the slides, record, answer, etc. Teachers get all the data from each activity in the slide presentation. Pear Deck is an Add-onto Google Slides that can be added to any teacher computer.

Quizlet Live is used as vocabulary review each day and makes a great activity to jump start a lesson. Quizlet Live automatically creates groups. When a question is asked, the answer is only on one of the students computer in the group. Collaboration is necessary to determine who has the correct answer.

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