Creating Videos
Guiding Thought: As you go through these resources, think about how you can incorporate videos into your lessons/curriculum or how students can create videos to show critical thinking, learning, or understanding.
Student Blogging
Guiding Thought: As you go through these resources, think about how you can incorporate blogs and/or wikis into your curriculum and what it would look like in your classroom. What outcome would you like to receive from integrating blogs and/or wikis?
Online Resources
Available Online Resources
BrainPop
- Engaging and student-friendly videos to supplement content and curriculum (science, history, math, etc.)
- Teachers have accounts and create classes to track student progress
- Students have accounts and can join teacher classes
- Teachers track student completion of videos, quizzes (scored by the program), activities related to videos
- Available at school and home (with Internet connection)
Google Classroom
- Free management system that works seamlessly with Google Drive apps (Docs, Sheets, Slides, Drawing, etc.)
- Teachers create classes and students join classes
- Teachers create and push out assignments to students
- Teachers can view, edit, or make a copy of a file to push out to students
- Students turn in assignments
- All classes and assignments are automatically organized for teachers and students!
- Teachers can view, interact, and conference with students digitally in real-time (while the students are working)
- Teachers can grade assignments and students receive the grade through Classroom (does not sync with Gradebook)
- Available at school and home (with Internet connection)
Google Drive
- Online storage of files-Docs, Sheets, Slides, Drawing, etc.
- Provides Google Apps
- A forum for student collaboration
- Teachers and students can share files
- Teachers can view, interact, and conference with students digitally in real-time (while the students are working)
- Available at school and home (with Internet connection)
IXL Math
- Math program that provides unlimited practice
- Teachers have accounts and create classes
- Teachers track student progress and have access to student reports-good for progress monitoring
- Common core standards aligned
- Supports all grades levels in math and language arts
- Can be used as an intervention and support tool, extra credit from home, practice for students who finish classwork early, etc.
- Available at school and home (with Internet connection)
Newsela
- Teachers and students have accounts
- Teachers create classes that students join
- Current events/news articles
- Articles available at 5 reading levels
- Quizzes and writing prompts for each article
- Highlighting text online (you can do ACE with this tool!)
- Pre-made text sets (articles grouped together on a particular topic)
- Teacher assigns articles to classes
- Teacher views individual and class results
- Teachers can track student and class progress against Common Core Standards
- Annotations on articles - you can do ACE with this!
- Available at school and home (with Internet connection)
