April 28, 2015 - Week 5

Tyler Ciscell, a fourth grade teacher for Elkton Grade School came in today to present on Web 2.0. He showed us many websites that he uses in the classroom. Those highlighted in pink are the links we used in class, and the others are on his website for his students to use. Each has a brief description of what the website does.

• Story Bird
• Create a Story or Poem
• Prezi
• Powerpoint type program
• Popplet
• less clean than prezi
• Wordpress
• Website
• Socrative
• Quizzing Website
• Google Docs/Slides/Spreadsheet
• Online Docs w/ Groups
• Hippo Campus
• Math
• Easel.ly
• infographics
• Games for Change
• Contemporary Social Issues
• Vocaroo
• Voice Recorder 
• Timeglider
• Timeline Creator

After Tyler left, we took a look at the ISTE Standards for Teachers. It is important for teachers to know the standards that they are expected to teach at as well as what their students are expected to know.