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- Prezi: a fun interactive spin on how present information on anything from teaching a lesson to your student's book reports. This allows you to create the ideal layout for how you want to present this information. You go from big ideas and then you move into the details of what information falls underneath this category. It makes your students more engaged in your lecture.
- Educreations.net: Educreations.net allows teachers with a way to record dynamic videos of them teaching a certain part of a lesson to keep the students engaged. When introducing a concept, this enables students to self-learn and take an approach to figure out the answer instead of telling them the answer. It is also a great tool to show where a student might have gotten lost during the process of learning or instruction. It is also a way to see gage what students know and this will allow for more one-on-one interaction.
- Google docs: This is a great way for you to help students collaborate with each other on their assignments. Also, another way we could do this by helping to collaborate and provide feedback to students when they are writing a paper. All you have them do is her it with you and you can monitor students progress. With this tool, you can click on multiple tabs with each student's document on it. It allows you to provide feedback more efficiently.
- Kahn academy: Kahn academy is an organization that post youtube videos to help aide students who are struggling with subjects such as math, science, art, etc. This tool is especially helpful for student who need more guided practices on certain areas or maybe another perspective on it. Kahn academy is a resource that have different videos on how to reinforce a certain concept or idea that has been taught at school. It also is way for students to receive more instruction on how to work a certain process.
- Noteapp: the Notepad would be a great way for those students to be able to have guided note on the lesson you cover in the classroom; I could post my notes for the class that day with some missing information, and then my students could also write down notes that they feel would best improve there understanding of the topic. Depending on a certain students learning style they may prefer to take notes on a the computer instead of writing with paper pencil. This could also be beneficial to students who need a creative spin for taking classroom guided notes.