Alexis Stepney
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Website Tools

7/10/2019

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     The web tool sites I picked to create an account with were Screencastify and Flipgrid. I don't have any apple software so I immediately had to  ex out a few of them. I've heard of both of them before so they grabbed my interest. I really liked being able to see yourself and present various things on your screen at the same time with Screencastify and in our 1st 702 class session using Flipgrid the wheels started turning on how I could apply it in my classroom. For my instructional video I used Voicethread because the tutorial presented it in a way that seemed very simplistic and I felt very straight forward.
       My main concern is all the wonderful tools I have been introduced to and learned about being great resources to expand my teaching I will not be able to access on the district iPads given to my classroom for use every year. I won't even know exactly what I will and will not be able to download and be able to show them and explore with until about the 2nd month of school.
          All three of the articles were a great read. Prior to I had never heard of flipped classroom and I am now a super fan of the idea. The "In Class Flip" that Caitlin Tucker discussed and the video Jennifer Gonzales made to explain in-depth how and what a rotation could look like is something I would like to implement. My students already are very familiar with rotation stations and I'm used to that teaching strategy so adding that component would not take a lot of extra work. I could see how this idea could be used with math rotations and it syncing in with Bridges, our adopted curriculum.
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Lisa Marie Smith
7/11/2019 08:18:16 am

Alexis,

I agree with your frustrations in learning about such amazing tools that will enhance instruction and student learning. However, challenges arise when not able to utilizing student devices or need to go through the IT department to download onto devices. Additionally, there will be a delay; as the IT staff members are often busy with the site and/or district work orders, which take priority over teacher requests.

I wonder if districts would consider given teachers some authorization to download/upload related educational software.


Warm Regards,

Lisa Marie Smith

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Karling Skoglund
7/11/2019 12:33:34 pm

Alexis,

I also was really impressed with the example of how to do station rotations and how to integrate the instructional video into one of the stations. At first, my impression was that creating stations seemed like quite a bit of prior planning, and really doubted my ability to pull one off in 6th grade. But I got to thinking that depending on how detailed the stations were designed, that it could take multiple days for students to rotate through, and that the prior planning would pay off with more time for me to be able to work with a small group as one of the stations or be able to flex my time between different groups.
I am still thinking this strategy through but it might work well, especially at the beginning of the school year when my 6th graders are more like 5th graders!

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Golden Williams
7/11/2019 02:28:39 pm

That fun since you did not have a mac you could not do some of them. But I have a mac so I really only focused on those ones. That’s crazy as teacher we see a tool that we start instantly thinking how we can use it in our classes. I like using VoiceThread it’s a great tool that can be used by teacher and students to do demonstrational videos. .

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