For the past two days (I might mention that these were the first two days of summer break :) I spent 4 hours each morning learning about different techniques to use in the classroom. I'm so excited that our district is moving to 1-1 devices. This opens so many different avenues for instructional practices and student engagement.
SO...what have I learned that I will be putting into practice in the fall?? There was so much that was introduced so I've taken 3 that I'm planning on trying.
1. Using snapit (google extension) to create short video's for directions.
How am I going to do this, you might ask? Rather than standing in front of the kids I'm going to load a snapit video with directions for creating their student accounts, such as padlet and sites.google.com which I hadn't used before. This frees me up to facilitating questions as students follow directions for each website. I look forward to letting you know how this works for me...some do's and don't's.
2. Using Padlet to have students respond to read alouds - I've created a Padlet for the first 10 chapters of Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief. This is a great first read because not only does it get the kids started on a wonderful series but it is very exciting and engaging. I'm interested to see how Padlet aides me in seeing their understanding of the text through quick journal responses. I plan on using this platform for the first few months of school and then reassessing to see if I want to continue to use it.
So I'm curious - if you've used Padlet, how productive did you feel it was?
SO...what have I learned that I will be putting into practice in the fall?? There was so much that was introduced so I've taken 3 that I'm planning on trying.
1. Using snapit (google extension) to create short video's for directions.
How am I going to do this, you might ask? Rather than standing in front of the kids I'm going to load a snapit video with directions for creating their student accounts, such as padlet and sites.google.com which I hadn't used before. This frees me up to facilitating questions as students follow directions for each website. I look forward to letting you know how this works for me...some do's and don't's.
2. Using Padlet to have students respond to read alouds - I've created a Padlet for the first 10 chapters of Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief. This is a great first read because not only does it get the kids started on a wonderful series but it is very exciting and engaging. I'm interested to see how Padlet aides me in seeing their understanding of the text through quick journal responses. I plan on using this platform for the first few months of school and then reassessing to see if I want to continue to use it.
So I'm curious - if you've used Padlet, how productive did you feel it was?