January Technology Round Up
Tech ideas to use in your classroom
Tech Tools In The New Year Worth Giving A Try
Flipgrid in the Classroom
How to Get Started
Catch the Flipgrid Fever
- Fluency reading practice
- Share your class code with another class and collaborate on video discussions
- End of the unit reflection
- Exit ticket
- Explain the steps of solving a math equation
- Find the mistake and explain
- Sing a song to help remember a concept
- Record a video for parents and send the code home
An Online Voice Recorder
Vocaroo and The SAMR Model
Here is an example of how Vocaroo fits the SAMR Model:
Substitution: Learners can use the online tool to record audio instead of using desktop or laptop voice recorders.
Augmentation: Vocaroo users can share their audio products easily via blogs, social media sites, and email.
Modification: Learners can include audio in tasks that were traditionally text-based (e.g., summarizing content that they have studied in class).
Redefinition: Learners can produce audios to share with classmates and family.
Vocaroo in the Classroom
Feedback and Comments: Learners and teachers can provide voice comments (rather than text-based comments). They can share a link to the voice comments in a Google Document.
ELL Students: Learners can record and listen to themselves.
Class activities: Podcasting, making a character interview or historical event dramatization, online discussions, explaining a procedure in Math or Science, the possibilities are endless.
Combining Vocaroo with other tools: The Vocaroo recorded messages can be embedded in Google Earth, Padlet, or Thinglink.
Common Sense Media
This site is a great place to quickly browse edtech products that have been rated by educators. Use the filters to search grade level, subject and platform, so you can decide what tech tools to try out in your classroom.
Rebecca Baggett
Email: rbaggett@graniteschools.org
Website: mrsbstechiepage.weebly.com
Location: West Valley City, UT, United States
Phone: (385) 646 - 5079
Twitter: @Rlbaggett