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I believe that the Nearpod link was super beneficial in aiding to student understanding of the read aloud. Students were to finish the read aloud video provided via my Youtube channel, and then complete the workbook designed on Nearpod. The Nearpod link also includes a collaborative board where students were to practice their digital literacy skills as well as showing personal respect and kindness toward others. This made the lesson better by providing a way for students to collaborate and work at their own pace while following the guided instruction along the way.

Pear Deck allows me to collect formative assessment data on the progress my students are making with content. I use the tool as a check for understanding during instruction to modify instruction as needed. Obstacles included managing the dashboard while also presenting the slide deck to the class. I use an extended screen so I can monitor responses before displaying them to the class. Sometimes while presenting on the Smartboard, I have had an issue with showing student responses.

Overall, Pear Deck is an effective tool to engage students in a lesson and collect where they are in their knowledge, skills, and abilities. 

If you haven’t used EdPuzzle yet, you should take full advantage! It makes teaching more meaningful while allowing the teacher to be free for more 1:1 lessons! 

We have temporarily gone to remote learning.  I was wondering how I could have my students complete the "Balloons Over Broadway" activity that I had planned.  Seesaw allowed me to easily set everything up for them to create and share their activity.  I was able to add a video of the book being read and a template for them to create their balloon using the drawing tools.  They then were able to write about their balloon using the text tools and record more information using the recording tool.  This all was easily added to their journal for me to approve and then share with their parents.

During our remote learning lesson introducing volume to 5th graders, I didn't have the physical access to students and they didn't have physical access to hands on manipulative items. We did the next best thing, and used the online resource to play, explore, and build to gain understanding of the relationship between the volume of a rectangular prism and its length, depth, and height.
Most students were able to discover the multiplicative relationship after playing around a while, some are going to need the concrete tools to truly get this- so I'll put baggies of cubes outside the classroom for parents to swing by and pick up before intervention lesson.
Overall, the site provided an excellent tool to move students from representational understanding to abstract in a very short period of time. Highly recommended.

Students were able to get into Pebble Go and research an insect they wanted to know more about. The device read the information to my struggling readers and gave excellent visuals to enhance their understanding. 

This resource is by far one of the most helpful to teach reading in the Cyber School environment. I have used the leveled readers in both whole group lessons, and small group intervention lessons. The site is also full of other lesson plans, games, and activities to use with students. Along with pulling  materials to use in my lessons, students go on independently and interact with the readers. They can read them, or listen along, and then they answer comprehension questions. It is a great tool for helping students improve comprehension and allowing teachers to collect and view resulting data. I have not encountered any obstacles with this site or its resources. 

During our final lesson, we introduce the ancient civilizations of South America through a Scavenger Hunt. The Scavenger Hunt that was housed in my room was a VR trip to the ruins of the Mayas, Aztecs and Incan people. There were several checks for understanding embedded in the trip, which allowed for group collaboration.