Technology Use in a classroom

Pinterest: here you can create different boards based on a certain topic and collaborate on a board with other people.

Learnist: You can share media and resources with other people on this site so you can share and gain information about a topic.

Google: You can share documents and have people edit them along with you in real time.

There are multiple websites that can be used to make blogs. These could be useful but sometimes they have a cost

Journal vs. Blogs: Journals are personal topics of the persons choosing, if used in a classroom on certain entries are shown to the teacher. Blogs are on personal or assigned topics and they are given out to the public in a way that many people are going to read them.

Educational Apps for blogs/journals: There are multiple educational resources that can be used for this: MS word, this costs money, but it is widely used; Google Docs, this is a google service so it is free and documents can be shared with other people; and Open office, this is not used very commonly.

Teams: This is a group call app where one person can share a computer screen so that everyone on the call is able to see the content

Google Hangouts: This is just a free group calling app, it can have up to 25 people in a call at a time.

Skype: This is a Microsoft one on one video chat app. It can be used for multiple purposes, it can be used to connect a classroom to someone on the other side of the world.

Screen recording: These can be used to record a certain part of a computer or phone screen and put into a video with audio over it to be used for instruction or explanation of a topic.

Smart board games: There are many online sites that have educational games that can be used on a smart board, it is interactive and the students get to use the technology by themselves.

Edpuzzle: This is a website where you can take a video on a topic and insert questions in the middle of the video, it is a good resource to use for comprehension about a topic.