News Letter

UEN STANDARDS:

Human Development and Relationships: Standard 3- Students will understand and respect self and others related to human development and relationships. Objective 2- Model behaviors that foster healthy interpersonal relationships. 

ED-TECH STANDARDS: 

Standard 6- Use telecommunications efficiently and effectively to access remote information and communicate with others in support of direct and independent learning and for pursuit of personal interests. 

ISTE STANDARDS:

Standard 1- Facilitate and inspire student learning and creativity 

With this tool, it was fun for me to make up my own classroom activities and newsletter. It was fun making up students names. This was a fun tool for me. I feel like the more I mess around with it, the more I will like it. I feel like there is really so much you can do with a newsletter. You can include what ever you like and so you can put in spelling works, homework sheets, birthdays, reminders. One thing I wanted to put in mine was spot light of the week. I feel like this spot light of the week will help students get to know each other and so that they can develop healthy relationships. I would like to do the spot light and then during the week have the students make a card for the spot light of the week also aiding in developing healthy relationships. I feel like newsletters are a good way of letting parents know what is going on in the classroom. 

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Storybird: English Language Proficiency

UEN STANDARDS:

English Language Proficiency: Standard 2- The language of Language Arts (example topics- compound words, elements of story, homophones, phonemic awareness, phonics, rhyming words,...)

ED-TECH STANDARDS:

Standard 5- Use technology tools for individual and collaborative writing, communication and publishing activities to create knowledge products for audiences inside and outside the classroom. 

ISTE STANDARDS:

Standard 1- Facilitate and inspire student learning and creativity. Standard 2- Design and develop digital age learning experiences and assessments. Standard 3- Model digital age work and learning.

I did not really see a point to this tool. Definitely not my favorite. Could not choose from a wide variety of pictures. Once I said my subject if only gave me a hand full of pictures to pick from... and I did not like any of them. Wish that it was easier to understand, it was not really user friendly to me. And I do not think that I will use it in my classroom because like I said I see no real point for it. I feel like there are so many other tools that could teach things better than this tool. Not a fan, not gonna waste my time making any more storybirds.  

Animoto: 6th Grade Art

UEN STANDARDS:

Visual Arts: Strand create (6.V.CR.) Students will generate artistic work by conceptualizing organizing and completing their artistic ideas. They will refine original work through persistence reflection and evaluation. Present: (6.V.P) Students will analyze interpret refine and select artistic work for presentation. They will convey meaning in the manner in which the art is presented.

ED-TECH STANDARDS:

Standard 6- Use telecommunications efficiently and effectively to access remote information and communicate with other in support of direct and independent learning and for pursuit of personal interests.

ISTE STANDARDS:

Standard 1- Facilitate and inspire student learning and creativity. Standard 2- Design and develop digital age learning experiences and assessments. Standard 3- Model digital age work and learning.

I liked this tool. It was a very simple tool to use. I feel like this is one I would let my students use as an option to present projects to me. They could use the pictures and explain why they chose them. They could use it as a book report and do pictures that were super important in the book, and then the class could guess what book it was based on the pictures, and then the student could explain why each picture was important to the book. I LOVE that idea! I am going to use that in my future class. I made this project as an art project which is another thing I could see it being used as. You could take pictures like I presented on, but you could also scan your own work in and use them. All in all I really liked this took. I could see how it would be irritating if you were trying to keep it on one slide for long, because I did not see an option to make the slides longer, but in the way that I would use it, I feel like the timing was just fine.

Ed-Puzzle: Mathematics Grade 2

UEN STANDARDS: 

Mathematics grade 2 Strand: Measurement and Data Standard 2.MD.8 - Solve word problems involving dollar bills, quarters, dimes, nickels, and pennies. Using $ appropriately. 

ED-TECH STANDARDS:

Standard 6- Use telecommunications efficiently and effectively to access remote information and communicate with others in support of direct and independent learning and for pursuit of personal interests. Standard 8- Use technology resources for problem solving, self directed learning, and extended learning activities.

ISTE STANDARDS: 

Standard 1- Facilitate and inspire student learning and creativity. Standard 2-Design and develop digital age learning experiences and assessments. 

This tool was so cool! I loved how you could just make an ordinary Youtube video interactive! You can still use these awesome videos, but now you know your students are paying attention, you know they are getting something out of it, and it is not just "busy work" you can actually give them a quiz during the video. This keeps them paying attention, and makes them answer the question before moving on. I am for sure using this tool in my classroom. I think it is so much fun.

I did a lesson using math and money. I decided to do this because I have not done a Math lesson in any of my other tools that I have learned to use. So I thought it was fun and I did like how it turned out you could easily have a video ready for a student who was maybe absent when you taught a math lesson and they can watch it during reading time and get caught up easily and quickly. And you would be able to see if they were caught up and understanding it with the quiz during the video. You could even use it for students that maybe need to be taught the lesson twice because they have a harder time catching on. But I definitely loved this tool and will be using it in my classroom!

Thinglink: 5 Senses

UEN STANDARDS:

Kindergarten-content. Standard 1 Objective 2 : Develop skills in gross and fine motor movement.

ISTE STANDARDS: 

Standard 1- facilitate and inspire student learning and creativity. Standard 2- Design and develop digital age learning experiences and assessments. 

ED-TECH STANDARDS:

Standard 5-  Use technology tools for individual and collaborative writing, communication, and publishing activities to create knowledge products for audiences inside and outside the classroom. (3,4) Standard 6- Use telecommunications efficiently and effectively to access remote information and communicate with others in support of direct and independent learning and for pursuit of personal interests. 

I thought this tool was so much fun. It did take me a while to figure out how to put a picture on the background. But once I figured it out it was a smooth process to make this cool presentation. I feel like this is a fun activity that the kids can be a part of, they can click on what they want to learn next. It makes it interactive.
So I did the 5 senses lesson. This was part of the Kindergarten standard 1 objective 2, in this lesson it said that the students should have a background knowledge of the 5 senses, and that maybe you should do a review. So I feel like this organized Thinglink is the perfect way to review the 5 senses. I thought this was a fun one because the kids could predict what sense they were going to learn about next based on where they clicked. I liked how this tool looks. I think it looks nice, but I did not have to spend hours putting it together. I see a lot of potential with this tool. I could see my students using it to help teach a lesson. 

Emaze: World Languages

UEN STANDARDS:

World Languages: American Sign Language Level 1:

Receptive Proficiency: Standard 01: The students will be able to recognize a signed introductory greeting. Objective 01.01: recognize finger spelled names. Objective 01.02: Recognize personal pronouns (me, you, your, my, and mine). Objective 01.03: Recognize greetings. Objective 02.02: Recognize cardinal and ordinal numbers.

ED-TECH STANDARDS:
Standard 5: Use technology tools (multimedia authoring, presentation, web tools, digital cameras, scanners) for individual and collaborative writing, communication, and publishing activities to create knowledge products for audiences inside and outside the classroom (3,4)
ISTE STANDARDS: 
Standard 1: Facilitate and inspire students learning and creativity, Standard 2: Design and develop digital age learning experiences and assessments, Standard 3: Model digital age work and learning.

I enjoyed working with the EMAZE tool. It was a fun and really simple tool to use. It was easy and straight forward on how to do things. I feel like it was not time consuming because you can easily sit down and make a great looking presentation in a short amount of time. It also had it so you can easily add pictures, videos, and more. I like how you to to push next so you were in charge of how fast or slow your presentation was going to go.

I made this presentation on ASL (American Sign Language). I love learning and teaching sign language. I feel like it is an important thing for these young students to be learning. It is a great skill in everyday life. These are just the basics and are the easy ones to learn so that the students can start somewhere, and that they will be able to communicate with someone who uses ASL in their life.

Today's Meet: Science 4th Grade

UEN Standards: 

Standard 1: Students will understand that water changes state as it moves through the water cycle. Describe the relationship between heat energy, evaporation and condensation of water on Earth. 

Ed-Tech Standards:

Standard 5- Use technology tools (multimedia authoring, presentation, web tools, digital cameras, scanners) for individual and collaborative writing, communication, and publishing activities to create knowledge products for audiences inside and outside the classroom. Standard 7- Use telecommunications and on-line resources (email, online discussions, web environments) to participate in collaborative problem solving activities to develop solutions or products for audiences inside and outside the classroom. 

Iste Standards: 2, 

Using this tool Today's Meet was pretty fun. It was super easy, and a fast tool. I had a professor here at college use this tool multiple times in an online class because of how easy it was and also because of how great it can get students thinking, interacting, and discussing, without actually being in the classroom at one time. So I was a little familiar with it, and that made it even more fun to be on the other side of it, being the one creating the discussion. I really liked this tool and could see me using it in my classroom. Students can pick up how to use this tool with simple instructions. Another reason I like this tool, was because it gets students seeing others response, that maybe they had not considered or even thought of before. A great way for students to help teach other students. 

So I opened a classroom discussion for my class to talk about the difference between solids, liquids, and gasses. The students are to observe one of these changes (solid to a liquid, liquid to a gas, liquid to a solid, solid to a gas, gas to a solid, gas to a liquid) If someone has already said that example they are to go observe a different one (so we do not have everyone using the melting ice as a solid to a liquid as there example) 

Today's Meet on Solid-Liquid-Gas