The new school year is underway, and Google has added two menus to their Classroom interface that make teaching online or hybrid just a bit easier. First on the Classroom homepage is a menu with “To-Do,” “To Review,” and “Calendar.” To-Do– students can easily view work for assignments in all of their classes To Review– […]
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Screencastify Tutorials
Screencastify has been one of my favorite online tools for the last 2-3 years. In the past, I used and loved Camtasia. Screencastify has easily become my replacement. Screencastify allows you to record a tab, your screen, and your webcam. It also can easily trim the video or open up the editor to cut out […]
Kami Tutorials
Kami is quickly becoming one of the favorite online tools. In the past, I posted about it on this blog twice (https://ariellegoldstein.com/?s=kami). Recently I became a Kami Hero and the online Kami community is so supportive. To help teachers in using Kami, I’ve created several 30-90 second tutorial videos. Many of these can be shared […]
Online Whiteboards
Online Whiteboards are a fantastic teaching tool, especially with touchscreen Chromebooks. They can be used to screencast, for digital assessments, to collaborate on an assignment, and much more. Here are some fantastic examples, find one that works for you: Kami- install the Kami extension to open a blank, lined, graph, or music sheet. Saves to […]
Grasshopper Coding
If you have not accessed Grasshopper Coding yet, get on it. By no means am I a coder. After years of teaching coding concepts to elementary school students, I felt confident in the basics. When I wanted to make things with a Raspberry Pi, I learned Python, but only the elements I needed for each […]
Seesaw- the best app/site for the elementary classroom
Seesaw, web.seesaw.me, is really the best iPad app/website for the elementary school classroom. If you use iPads and do not have this app yet, download it, then come back and read all about. Seesaw calls itself a “Learning Journal” and promotes itself as a great tool for portfolios. It is! But it so much more with the […]
EdCite
The Chromebooks have really stepped-up our formative assessment game. I’ve already posted about some of my favorites, Kahoot and Quizziz here, and now want to write about Edcite. Edcite.com is a free website that allows teachers to create assessments that look like PARCC. Teachers can create classes and add students so they have their own accounts. Students […]
Kahoot vs. Quizizz
Kahoot and Quizizz are both great ways to gamify formative assessment in the classroom. Each has it’s positives and it’s negatives and each has its place. First, why gamify assessment? it’s motivating it’s engaging it’s exciting Both are FREE and students DO NOT need accounts. Kahoot Quizizz Accounts Teacher yes No Questions Multiple Choice Multiple […]
NJ Teacher’s Convention
The first day of teacher’s convention was full of information. Today I presented on Augmented Reality and QR Codes. While it’s hard to see the benefits of AR in slides, click here to see my notes and ideas. Tomorrow I present on creating and iBook, creation and copyright. Download my iBook that is full of […]
STEM Poetry
We are lighting up our poems in second grade! During Poetry Month in April the second graders spend time using ReadWriteThinks interactive poetry websites. They wrote Acrostics, Diamantes, and Haikus. After learning about these 3 types of poems and others in their classroom students worked in small groups to brainstorm as many sources of light as […]