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Enhancing Classroom Engagement Through Technology: A Guide for Educators

Discover innovative ways to integrate technology into your classroom with this comprehensive guide. Learn how to use tools such as Popplet and Educreations for collaborative projects, story mapping, and vocabulary building. Get tips on creating a user-friendly online environment for students, including embedding resources and managing accounts. Explore extension activities that encourage student collaboration, enhance learning experiences, and make homework more engaging. Transform your teaching methods with effective digital practices that inspire and connect.

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Enhancing Classroom Engagement Through Technology: A Guide for Educators

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  1. connecting Technology & the Classroom Stephen Erickericks@fccps.orgmrericksclass.weebly.com

  2. Some Basics before we start • A few things that may make things a bit smoother before we start. • Mrericksclass.weebly.com (everything we do today will be linked to this site) • Under the topic “Homework” • Click “Professional Development” • Add to Homescreen

  3. Add our site to your homescreen • This works great for anything online that you want to access or need

  4. Apps We Will Be Exploring

  5. Click on the on your ipad

  6. The Basics • Click “Make New Popplet” Tools • Frame color • Text • Draw • Add a Picture • Resize • Connect

  7. Applications • Story mapping • Summarizing/retelling • Character mapping • Sequencing • Vocabulary building

  8. Management Easy • Create Popplets on the go to share in small groups or using Airserve • Take a Screenshot to e-mail or share More involved • Create online student accounts to view student work.

  9. Extension Activities – Popplet Online • Student Collaboration – By creating student accounts students can Popplet together • Website embedding – Connect to families through your website using popplet.

  10. Sandbox time Explore Popplet

  11. Click on the on your ipad

  12. The Basics • Click “New Lesson” Tools • Colors • Text • Add a Picture • Undo/Redo • Clear Page/Clear Ink • Record • Background • New page

  13. Applications • Story retelling • Direction following (Steps by step instruction) • Peer tutoring • Student reteaching (have them teach the lesson back) • Sequencing

  14. Management • Easy to set up, no accounts or passwords needed • Presentations can be saved to the ipad to share later

  15. Extension Activities • Embed your POPPLET! • Review of content materials • Math problem solving • Layout content – show a tadpole growing • Embed into Smartboards or lessons • Use it for anything you can explain!

  16. Sandbox Time Explore Educreations

  17. Click on the on your ipad

  18. The Basics • Click “Create Class” Tools – Click ”My Classes/Dashboard” (We are going to go across the screen backwards) • Settings • Users – add students • Comments – Management tool • Review post - Management tool • New Post

  19. Applications • Reading Log Blog • Reading Group Blogs • Book Clubs • Classroom discussions • Student book discussions • Questions of the Day

  20. Management • Private vs. public (Settings) • Use the Dashboard • Review Comments • Review Post

  21. Extension Activities • Project Blogging • Classroom debates • Lesson Review • Homework help

  22. Click on the on your ipad

  23. The Basics • Create an account Tools • Browse • Create • Your sets

  24. Applications • Vocabulary Review • Study Skills/Test Prep

  25. Management • Easy to Create • Easy to Browse others’ sets and mix or edit them into yours

  26. Extension Activities Study • Speller • Learn • Test Games • Scatter • Space Race Extra Tools • Print • Embed • Place questions on testmoz!

  27. Questions?

  28. Other Useful apps to make connecting to language arts fun! Word Study Sentence Structure/Poetry Puppets Word Building Games

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