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How To Bring more technology into your class

                   Tech Tools I use
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• Commonlit- Famous Writings w/ Lexile level Readings in English and Spanish
  
• Curious.com-  Site that focuses on teaching something new everyday.  ​
• Edutopia-  Website for teachers, has tools, articles, videos
• Flocabulary.com-  awesome program that uses educational hip-hop music to engage students and increase achievement.
• Kiddle-   Filtered search engine built with children in mind
• Kid Rex-   Filtered search engine built with children in mind
• Massive Google List- of EdTech Tools for any classroom​
• Newsela-  News Site with Lexile level Readings in English and Spanish
• NoRedInk- Self-directed grammar lessons based off of students interests
• PBS Learning Media- Amazing website for articles and lessons for all grades
• Pinterest- a great site to find, store, and share resources
• Quill.org- For self-directed grammar lessons.
• TechSmith Site- picture/video rendering programs excellent for a flipped classroom.
• TED-Captivating videos on a variety of topics; education, parenting, restorative justice, etc
• Vocabulary.com- Use their lists or plug your vocab list into this website, and let kids learn.
• YouTube Edu- Youtube channel dedicated to education videos
• Learning Innovation Lab-  Some of best of educational websites out there!

    Presentation/Collaboration Tools

• Animoto- Short on text, big on images or video clips.
  
• GoAnimate- Robust animation.
  
• Moovly-   Online movie editing software.
  
• Near Pod-  App to help create lessons (or customize) and share with students.
  
• PowToon- Whiteboard video maker easier than GoAnimate, more challenging than Slides.
  
• Prezi-   Powerpoint on steroids in the cloud.
  
• WeVideo-  Education-friendly video editing.
  

Recommended Reading

                 Research
Brooks, A. W. (2014). Information Literacy and the Flipped Classroom: Examining the Impact of a One-Shot Flipped Class on Student Learning and Perceptions. Communications in Information Literacy,

Clark, K. R. (2015). The Effects of the Flipped Model of Instruction on Student Engagement and Performance in the Secondary Mathematics Classroom. Journal Of Educators Online, 12(1), 91-115.

González-Gómez, D., Jeong, J. S., Rodríguez, D. A., & Cañada-Cañada, F. (2016, February 02). Performance and Perception in the Flipped Learning Model: An Initial Approach to Evaluate the Effectiveness of a New Teaching Methodology in a General Science Classroom. Journal of Science Education and Technology, 25(3), 450-459. doi:10.1007/s10956-016-9605-9

Schaffhauser, D. (2009). The Vod Couple. T.H.E. Journal, 36(7), 19-23.


    Books That Inspire My Teaching
Creative Schools, by Sir Ken Robinson.  Taking a holistic approach to reach the whole child, in every child.
Flip your Classroom, by Jonathan Bergmann, Aaron Sams.  Link to page where there are several books about flipped learning

Videos That Inspired Me

​Flipped Learning  56 min. video of Aaron Sams and Jon Bergmann (The Founders of Flipped Learning) explaining how to use flipped learning.
 
Keith Hughes I Flip, You Flip, We All Flip: Setting Up a Flipped Classroom.  This is everything you could need to know about setting up a Flipped classroom.
 
Do Schools Kill Creativity? TED talk by Sir Ken Robinson
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Sites That Inspire Me

• ​Jonbergmann.com- Jon Bergmann is one, if not the leading, advocates for Flipped Learning.  

 

• Common Craft-  Common Craft is a whiteboard video making site.  It is paid but it offers great ideas for cut-outs for making whiteboard videos.  

 

• CommonSenseMedia -MASSIVE website with great resources for teaching digital citizenship & much more

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