Using Technology to Enhance Instruction

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Using Flipgrid in Online Courses

This presentation provides an overview of how FlipGrid can be used in online courses to promote community, student engagement and active learning. The author will discuss the benefits of asynchronous video technology and how she has used FlipGrid in undergraduate online courses. Furthermore, a demonstration on how to create a video grid in FlipGrid is given during the presentation.
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Andrea Hogan - Assistant Professor in the College of Humanities and Social Sciences  
Grand Canyon University

Using Technology to Enhance Learning Presentations

Prodigy

This presentation takes a look at a free math website for grades first through eighth called Prodigy. Prodigy allows students to become engaged into a world of wizards, spells, and battles while completing math problems for their grade level. Teachers receive each of the students results and can take note of a students progress every week. Teachers can also decide what concepts to work on and plan each week accordingly. 

Rachel Marinaro @msrachelann1996
Preservice Teacher at Spring Hill College

Using Nearpod for Vocabulary Practice

Mind Mapping
The application Nearpod can be used with many different purposes, subjects, and lessons. Teachers can monitor their students and help them learn as they have fun with activities that the teacher can easily create for them.  This presentation looks at science vocabulary as an example.

Nancy Hernandez, Preservice Teacher at Tarleton State University
This presentation looks at the strategy of mind mapping. The website used is coggle.it. With Coggle, you can create your own mind maps which are color-coded and easy to follow. It's easy for students of all ages to navigate and put their information in a map that is easy to follow.

Patience Swaim @patience_swaim
​Preservice Teacher at Tarleton State University

Learning Vocabulary Words with Instagram

Toontastic 3D in the Classroom
This presentation explores how Instagram can be implemented in the classroom to teach vocabulary instruction. In addition, they presenters included an array of features, beyond just vocabulary, that can be used to teach several other aspects during instruction. They emphasized the idea that a social media application that is typically used by students for entertainment can be used for education as well. The presenters believe that Instagram is a simple application that can be easily used by majority of students due to the students' prior knowledge of the social media application.

Adriana Moncada and Penny Tedford
​Preservice Teachers at Tarleton State University
This video presentation goes over the features that Toontastic 3D offers to help bring enjoyment to literacy in the classroom. 
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Maria Bautista  @sfxbautista
​Preservice Teacher at Tarleton State University

Using Snapchat for Learning

Instead of our students filling out yet another worksheet, our students get to use fun technology in the classroom. Snapchat, an app most young people have seen/used can be now used for learning. Snapchat replaces the need for students to draw what they see and instead they get to show you what they see. This app can be used in many different classrooms and should be taken advantage of.

Shelby May and Cayla Johnson
​Preservice Teachers at Tarleton State University

EduBlog in Content Areas

Through the use of EduBlog, teachers can incorporate technology easily into a number of different content area subjects. Teachers can make a class blog and have their students upload essays, media presentations or other work that they produce. Students are able to view and comment on their classmates work as well. This is a creative way for students to learn content, while having fun with technology.

Jamie Potter and Carli Cavnar
Preservice Teachers at Tarleton State University
@jamiepotter13 and @carli8797

Student Learning through EduCreations

Educreations is a free website that students or teachers can use to create lesson plans for students to be successful. There is a white board available for the student to use as a tool to create a lesson plan. We used the Hieroglyphics moment strategy. It contains four or six squares that allow students to create images and write down a few words that explains the concept they are learning. We created a detailed instruction example of how to use the website and the strategy by choosing a subject and demonstrating the water cycle to show how students and teachers can be successful by using the Hieroglyphic moment strategy in the Educreations website.

Rachel Cage & Susana Espinosa
Preservice Teachers at Tarleton State University

Fakebook for Creative Book Reports

Animoto in the Classroom
Fakebook in the classroom is a tutorial I created to show how to use technology to check students comprehension in literacy. In this tutorial I created a Fakebook using Harry Potter as the Fakebook owner. I created several post in chronological order of events that occured in the story, identified characters in the story, and wrote an about me section on the main character. Fakebook allows technology to give a new spin on what would be an average book report otherwise. 

Sarah Ruiz @Shylla_Ruiz
​Preservice Teacher at Tarleton State University
*Link to Lesson Plan Connected to Presentation
Animoto is a great app to help students come up with a slideshow presentation incorporating The GIST Strategy within Content Area Reading. By adding pictures and text about the topic, students can get a better understanding of what they are learning about. This is a great app to teach students how to use technology to build their content area reading skills and is also a great way to learn a topic in a creative and fun way.  

Shelby Hitt & Bailey Darracq
Preservice Teachers at Tarleton State University
@BDarracq and @HittShelby

School Friendzy

This presentation is about school friendzy apps and all the amazing things they can do. You only need one app for your classroom but they have different subjects and content for different grades so the actual app is called 1st grade friendzy, or 2nd grade friendzy, and so on depending on your grade. It can be used across all core subjects in and out of the classroom. It’s also for grades K-8.

Lindsay Bejcek @LindsBadger
Preservice Teacher at Spring Hill College

Zapworks:  An Educational Tool

ZapWorks is an augmented reality creative tool that allows the user to create interactive experiences. Using a series of three different content creation tools, the user can create original augmented reality experiences for his or her classroom. Anyone who has downloaded the Zappar app can scan the ZapCode from a computer or printout, which will take them to an augmented reality experience.  Not only will the students be engaged in class, they will have direct access to other resources at school and at home. There are so many possibilities available with this website that can deepen students’ understanding of material learned in class due to the interactive and immersive nature of the experiences provided by this website.

Lyndsay Harrelson   @lyndsayharrelso!
Preservice Teacher at Spring Hill College