Science: Google Drawing

Standards:
Third Grade Science Standard 2: Students will understand that organisms depend on living and nonliving things within their environment

Ed Tech Standard: Use technology tools for individual and collaborative writing, communication, and publishing activities to create knowledge products for audiences inside and outside the classroom.

ISTE Standard Innovative Designer: I solve problems by creating new and imaginative solutions by using a variety of tools.

Science: Google Drawings

Conclusion: 

I liked the Google Drawings tool because it made it easy to create a project. What I liked about this tool is that it is easy to use and learn. You can also easily access it through google drive and it makes it easier to save and get to it. One thing I didn't like about his tool is there are limits to the things you can do. I don't know if I would use this tool when I become a teacher because there aren't a lot of things I could do with it.

However if I did use it, I would use it as a tool for students to use and complete work sheets. It could also be used for students working together to create some sort of little presentation on a subject.

Over all I liked this tool but it wasn't a tool that stood out to me. 

English Launguage Arts: Podcast Audacity

Standards:

Second Grade ELA Reading: Literature Standard 1: Ask and answer such questions as who, what, where, when, why, and how to demonstrate understanding of key details in a text.

Ed Tech Standard 6: Use telecommunications efficiently and effectively to access remote information and communicate with others in support of direct and independent learning and for pursuit of personal interests.

ISTE Standard Empowered Learner: I use technology to set goals, work toward achieving them and demonstrate my learning.

Audacity Book and Questions

Conclusion:

I chose Audacity for my podcast tool because I have seen it and it is already installed on a computer that I can access. Audacity looks really complicated when you initially open it up because there are a lot of random numbers and symbols that look confusing. But it was pretty simple to learn how to use. You click record to start and you can pause when ever you need to think over what you want to say. I personally don't like podcasts because I think it is hard way to learn if you can only hear and not see something. That's why I would use this tool for something like reading a book! When using it this way I could record what ever material I wanted read, and then I could play it in class and still use visuals (like the book). I would want students to listen, watch, and follow along as they talk with others to help them understand what the book is about.

Overall I think the tool was easy to use, but I would only use this tool if I could pair it with some sort of visual aid to help students of all learning types better comprehend.

Math: Educreations

Standards:
Third Grade Math Core Standard OPERATIONS AND ALGEBRAIC THINKING: Represent and solve problems involving multiplication and division within 100. They demonstrate understanding of the properties of multiplication and the relationship between multiplication and division. Students use the four operations to identify and explain patterns in arithmetic.

Ed Tech Standard: Use technology tools for individual and collaborative writing, communication, and publishing activities to create knowledge products for audiences inside and outside the classroom.

ISTE Standard Computational Thinker: I identify authentic problems, work with data and use a step-by-step process to automate solutions.

MULTIPLACATION LESSON:

DIVISION LESSON:

Conclusion:

Educreation has been my absolute favorite tool that I have learned so far! The reason I like it so much is because first, it is really easy to use! Second, I love that I can talk through my steps with the students. Lastly I love how fast it is to make and post.

I have seen this tool before because it was used in my Math 1050 class in a flip classroom. Every night we would go on to see the new lesson our teacher had posted for us to watch. I would use this tool in my future classroom for the same thing. I would use it as a way to teach from home. I think this is an ideal tool for a flip classroom type of setting.

I found this tool the most helpful for math because you can write out and show your steps to your students while talking them through it. The only down side to this tool is if you mess up, you rather leave it in, or re-record. But this tool does have a pause button so you can stop and think of what you want to say next! Overall this tool has been so fun to use and I can definitely see myself using this tool in the future.

Science: Popplet

Standards:

First Grade Science Core Standard 4: Life Science. Students will gain an understanding of Life Science through the study of changes in organisms over time and the nature of living things. 

Ed Tech 5: Use technology tools for individual and collaborative writing, communication, and publishing activities to create knowledge products for audiences inside and outside the classroom.

ISTE Standard Knowledge Constructor: I critically select, evaluate and synthesis digital resources into a collection that reflects my learning and builds my knowledge.

Popplet

Conclusion: 
I used popplet to help me with the mind map assignment and I found it very easy use. It was an easy way to organize my thoughts and help me get all the material on the page. The one thing I didn't like about this tool was that it took along time to get all the different nodes on the page. Sometimes it would glitch and the nodes would fly around the page with my mouse and it was frustrating. But once I got the hang of it I really liked how it looked and displayed my thoughts.
I would use this in my future classroom to help kids brain storm ideas for their projects by spreading out their thoughts across the page. This could also be a collaborative assignment that would help kids work with their peers. 

Health: SlideBean

Standards:
Fourth Grade Health Core Standard 2: The students will adopt health -promoting and risk-reducing behaviors to prevent substance abuse.

Ed Tech Standard 7: Use telecommunications on-line resources to participate in collaborative problem-solving activities to develop solutions or products for audiences inside and outside the classroom.

ISTE Standard Creative Communicator: I communicate effectively and express myself creatively using different tools, styles, formats and digital media.

SlideBean

Conclusion: 

I was looking for a presentation tool that could help me show material that would help include collaboration for my future students. 

I found slide bean! This tool is so helpful when creating presentations. It gives you a lot of different options for things that you can include on your slide. It has options from graphics, to pictures, to any text entry and the template that includes these is already preset up! I loved how easy it was to embed the videos in my presentation.

How ever this tool gave me a lot of problems! It deleted my slides over and over again because the site would stop working and it would loose my work. After I finally finished it, it was hard to figure out how to share the link with others. This tool is not very friendly to use after the presentation is made. 

I would use this tool in my class to present material and to encourage collaboration among students. I think this could help them by displaying questions for them to talk about. 

Science: Google Forms

Standards:
Sixth Grade Science Core Standard 3: Students will understand the relationship and attributes of objects in the solar system.

Ed Tech Standard 8: Use technology resources for problem-solving, self-directed learning, and extended learning activities.

ISTE Standard Computational Thinker: I identify authentic problems, work with data, and use a step by step process to automate solutions.


 Conclusion:
I loved this tool because of how easy it is to figure out! I have never tried google forms and I figured out how to use it with out watching any of the tutorial videos. I loved how this tool made it easy to set up the questions they way you want, it is also easy to check the responses that students give. I also love how you can use google forms for just an assessment to see where students are at, or you can make it a quiz and add point value.
I would use this tool specifically for assessments. It is fast to make and I could check up to see how students are grasping the material. This could play as feedback for me as a teacher to see if what I am teaching is making sense to my students. This was also easy to embed because it gave me the embedded URL, and normally I struggle finding out how to do that.
Over all this tool was easy and very helpful to me!

Science: Mentimeter

Standards
Third Grade Science Core Standard 5: Students will understand that the sun is the main source of heat and light for things living on Earth. They will also understand that the motion of rubbing objects together may produce heat.

Ed Tech Standard 6: Use telecommunications efficiently and effectively to access remote information and communicate with others in support of direct and independent learning and for pursuit of personal interests.

ISTE Standard Innovate Designer: I solve problems by creating new and imaginative solutions using a variety of tools.

Mentimeter: Light and Heat

Conclusion:
I originally chose this tool because I wanted a presentation where I could quiz my students while still presenting information at the same time! This is how I cam across Mentimeter.
This tool was so fun for me to create and use! The creation was a lot like a power point or google slides. You pick what you want your template to look like and create it the way you want to use it. What makes this different from other slide show tools, is that it has various quizzes and free response questions through out the presentation.
In class I would use this to present information and have the students work in small groups to help answer the questions and talk about the material. This tool would be very helpful in keeping the students attention throughout the presentation by making it more interactive. They get to answer different questions to help me understand their comprehension level. The one thing that I didn't like about this tool, is that there aren't any good templates for just text. I wanted to displaying information or use bullet points, but the templates used for those were very difficult to work with. They have word restrictions and a weird lay out. Over all I really enjoyed this tool and I think it is a fun way to incorporate interactives that can be used for collaboration in class!