Cherokee Tech News
Sept. 10th
Teachers Using Tech: Blendspace
Beverly West one of our new 8th grade math teachers uses Blendspace in her classroom as a way to store videos and documents about a similar topic to help her students study and stay organized. This is a GREAT web based application that can be used in all subject areas. Click on your content area below to see some examples of blendspaces others have made:
I will also be doing a system-wide PD on Blendspace on October 19th in the PD Suite. Please register on Randa to attend.
Tech to Review
Kahoot!
This is a very simple to use and motivating quiz based game for students to use in the classroom. They compete with fellow classmates to earn the top score in the class.
Socrative
Socrative is another web based program that can be used on phones, tablets, and computers. Students answer multiple types of questions and the program generates a report at the end of the lesson for you as the teacher to track student understanding.
Canvas
Canvas is the county's learning management system that is available to you for free. It has many AWESOME features such as creating quiz banks, standards based grading, legal ways to use YouTube in your classroom and many more! We will be having a PD on Sept. 23rd and Oct. 15th at SDMS. Please register for those on Randa.
SAMR Model for Technology
The SAMR model is a way for teachers to assess how they are really using technology in the classroom. I will be offering several trainings on the SAMR model in PLCs and in after school PD, but I did want you to see the model before seeing it training :) If you would like some more information on the SAMR model, please click here.