This has been an amazing experience to explore technology this way. I usually do not enjoy professional development that is self directed, but this was highly recommenced by a colleague. I've learned about so many new programs that I can incorporate into my math intervention groups. The 6th graders that i work with have already began a google slide presentation where they need to chose a standard that has been covered this year and create a lesson using the slides. My final project was created using Adobe Spark: https://spark.adobe.com/video/hGTvniGbjgjeq https://spark.adobe.com/video/hGTvniGbjgjeq
Wow! Where to begin? There are so many ideas for students to make an e book. The idea of combining writing illustrations, drawing and video as a final or culminating project is a unique way for students to demonstrate their understanding. A great introduction to e books was a podcast by Jennifer Gonzales- Student Made E-Books: A Beautiful way to demonstrate Learning April 10, 2016. There were ideas how to take PowerPoint or Google slides into e books and customize them. I learned about an app called Book Creator. This was easy to download for Chrome. Monica Burns had a video that described the ways to use E books with your students and the benefits that students would have using this type of presentation tool. Using book creator as a formative assessment tool and checking for understanding using digital tools really sparked my interest. I downloaded book creator and was able to access a joining code for students. The features are unbelievable. I was able to access my files suc