September Success Stories

September Success Stories (Part One)

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Heidi Morrissey used ScreenCastify in her classroom to record her screen while describing the directions for a more complicated assignment.  She loved the program and is looking forward to creating some assignments with the program where she will speak Spanish on the screencast.  This will be a great tool for her classroom!

Something Awesome to Try:
Use ScreenCastify to create a Screencast of your content.  Screencastify will record your voice and whatever you are showing on your computer screen. Then use edpuzzle (a separate app) to turn that online video into an interactive video quiz!

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Sallie Carney used pear deck in her classroom... here is what she had to say...

"I tried a couple of lessons using Pear Deck. I loved it because all of the students were engaged and it was easy for me to get a quick check on how every student was doing with the subject matter. You can ask a question about any slide (or anything), while you are presenting. The downside is that I liked it so much that I purchased the upgraded version of the product.:)"

Something Awesome to Try:
Set up your FREE pear deck account, create one title slide for a presentation, and verbally question your students using the "ask a question" button.  The setup time for the teacher is almost nothing and the student engagement and feedback you get are invaluable.  Step out of your comfort zone and start investigating Pear Deck now!

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Drew Renner and the 7th grade science department are using Google Forms to create create "self grading assessments" for students.  These assessments are posted to their google classroom pages and students can take the assessment and receive immediate feedback regarding how they are doing.  The reason this is possible is because they are using a Google Sheets add on called Flubaroo (click this link to view more about flubaroo).


Something Awesome to Try:
Come to our October 7th Tech Development Club meeting to create your first self grading assessment you can use with your class!

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Awesome work to the following individuals who have tried new things in their classrooms recently!!! 

Richardson- Self evaluating check ins using Google Forms

Stern- Kahoot and Socrative

Blevins- Google Classroom and the use of digital media

Johansen- Google Classroom for extension opportunities

Tonkin- Pear Deck

Marty Fish- His entire coding & robotics course

Lisa Fish- Photoshop, Illustrator, and Sculpptris

Riggs- Google Forms to track reading

Reichle- Using Google Classroom

Paine- Building her own website using Wix

Smith- Utilizing Google Classroom

Hetzel- Using google forms to collect data with his IEP students

Riestenberg- Using Google Classroom to for his support ed classes

Carpenter- Utilizing Google Classroom and Forms

Kemen- Using Google Docs to enhance collaboration within her classes

Dean- Creating a google classroom and implementing a collaborative sheets assignment with all of his classes.

Fiehrer- Using Google Classroom

Reed- Using Forms for student Rubrics and Student Sign Ups

Lohman- Creating a paperless classroom using Google Classroom

Brittingham- Creating her own website using weebly and posting a great deal of digital assignments/ surveys on her site.

Overbey- Using Flubaroo in class!

Hamilton- Students create imovie projects, upload to youtube, and house them in padlet... Awesome work Kyle!

Phillips- Posting short video clips to the web to help her students study

Carraher- Using Kaizana to provide voice feedback to student writing in google docs.

Keriazes- Using Quizzizz to assess student understanding.  This is similar to Kahoot but the question pops up on the student screen!

Erin White- Using Flubaroo in Class!

Denman- Google Docs for text annontation

Shriver- Google Classroom for online Art Portfolios

Hinson- Google Classroom (Shared calendars, Background Surveys, Smart Music)

Jones- Real time feedback using classroom and docs

Stephens- Google Classroom

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Schatzle- Creating a Search Query Exercise activity using google slides.  He was able to get all of his students collaborating within one slides presentation!  Good work Eric!