Flipgrid

Directions for setting up a Flipgrid:

● Create an account
● Select new topic
● Create a Flipgrid by asking the students for an introduction video
● Select recording time
● Select more options
● Select appropriate options for your class

Assessment Criteria:
● Collective
● Individual

ISTE Standards for Students:

Empowered Learner: Students leverage technology to take an active role in choosing,
achieving and demonstrating competency in their learning goals, informed by the
learning sciences.
1a Students articulate and set personal learning goals, develop strategies leveraging
technology to achieve them and reflect on the learning process itself to improve learning
outcomes.
1b Students build networks and customize their learning environments in ways that
support the learning process.
1c Students use technology to seek feedback that informs and improves their practice
and to demonstrate their learning in a variety of ways.

Digital Citizen: Students recognize the rights, responsibilities, and opportunities of living,
learning and working in an interconnected digital world, and they act and model in ways
that are safe, legal and ethical.
2b Students engage in positive, safe, legal and ethical behavior when using technology,
including social interactions online or when using networked devices.

Creative Communicator: Students communicate clearly and express themselves

creatively for a variety of purposes using the platforms, tools, styles, formats and digital
media appropriate to their goals.
6a: Students choose the appropriate platforms and tools for meeting the desired
objectives of their creation or communication.
6b: Students create original works or responsibly repurpose or remix digital resources
into new creations.
6c: Students communicate complex ideas clearly and effectively by creating or using a
variety of digital objects such as visualizations, models or simulations.
6d: Students publish or present content that customizes the message and medium for
their intended audiences.

Global Collaborator: Students use digital tools to broaden their perspectives and enrich
their learning by collaborating with others and working effectively in teams locally and
globally.
7a Students use digital tools to connect with learners from a variety of backgrounds and
cultures, engaging with them in ways that broaden mutual understanding and learning.
7b Students use collaborative technologies to work with others, including peers, experts
or community members, to examine issues and problems from multiple viewpoints.
7c Students contribute constructively to project teams, assuming various roles and
responsibilities to work effectively toward a common goal.
7d Students explore local and global issues and use collaborative technologies to work
with others to investigate solutions.

Flipgrid is a technology-enhanced option for all grade levels. Students will be assessed
at their level. The value of Flipgrid is measurable and provides for authentic learning. It
will be used in the classroom to help students communicate their knowledge effectively
in all content areas. Within our classroom, Flipgrid is used for essay questions, building
themes, topics, and questions that invite comparison, encouraging students to choose
questions or topics that are important to them, encourage students to incorporate a
creative use of visuals such as skits, drawing, pictures, etc., encourage students to work
together if the topic is complex in order to create something more innovative than what
they might have created alone, teach lessons on what they have learned, make it
personal to their own experiences, find meaning in what they are learning in class.
There are some ideas for an ELA unit. Some ways to make it personal is to ask
students to share a favorite book or story, choose a favorite main character from a
book, or invite students to describe a favorite idiom. Some ways to use comparison is
instruct students to compare proper, common, and possessive nouns, ask students to
explain, compare, and give examples of poems, drama, and prose, and have students
compare and give examples of literal and nonliteral meanings of words. One example of
finding meaning is having students make connections between words and their uses by
finding places or objects that illustrate words like busy or comforting. One example of
being current is to use as many evocative words as possible to convey feelings
attached to holidays or present circumstances. One example of using visuals is to
encourage students to supply visual representations to illustrate specific words. One
example of collaborating is to invite students to collaborate in telling a story by using
distinct voices to separate the perspectives of different characters.

https://info.flipgrid.com/

Kahoot

Directions for setting up a Kahoot

● Register for a Kahoot Account
● Search thousands of public Kahoot for topics you are teaching
● Create your own Kahoot on the topic you are teaching
● Select template
● Input your question and answers
● Select the correct answer
● Add a picture if you like
● Select Done when you finish
● Select play to play with your class (individual or group)
● Students go to Kahoot and input the game pin and their nicknames.
● Launch game
● After game check results to see how students did

Assessment Criteria:
● Collective
● Individual

ISTE Standards for Students:

Empowered Learner: Students leverage technology to take an active role in choosing,
achieving and demonstrating competency in their learning goals, informed by the
learning sciences.
1a Students articulate and set personal learning goals, develop strategies leveraging
technology to achieve them and reflect on the learning process itself to improve learning
outcomes.
1b Students build networks and customize their learning environments in ways that
support the learning process.
1c Students use technology to seek feedback that informs and improves their practice
and to demonstrate their learning in a variety of ways.
Digital Citizen: Students recognize the rights, responsibilities, and opportunities of living,
learning and working in an interconnected digital world, and they act and model in ways
that are safe, legal and ethical.
2b Students engage in positive, safe, legal and ethical behavior when using technology,
including social interactions online or when using networked devices.

Kahoot is a technology-enhanced interactive option for all grade levels. Students will be
assessed at their level. The value of Kahoot is measurable and provides for authentic
learning. It will be used in the classroom to help students communicate their knowledge
effectively in all content areas. Some ideas for a Social Studies unit on the states.
Kahoot will be used in class as an alternative to a boring state quiz. Instead of using
paper and pencils, Kahoot adds fun and excitement to boring lessons. It engages
students. Kahoot can also be used to introduce a new topic and give a quick picture of
students’ prior knowledge of a particular topic or subject such as what do you know
about California the state. It can be used as a discussion initiator. A quick Kahoot
discussion in class with the use of the interactive activity can help get the attention of
everyone in the class. Students will tend to be focused on identifying the state. Kahoot
can be used as a survey tool. Students can take a survey on the state they want to
learn about. It can be used as a way to reinforce concepts that have been taught such
as knowing all the states in the Northeast region. Another way it can be used is through
repetition such as playing a quiz on identifying states. Learners can also create their
own Kahoots about the states and present their quiz to the class. There are many
advantages to using Kahoot in the classroom.

https://create.kahoot.it/login

Spelling City

Directions for setting up Spelling City

● Create an account
● If you paid for the account, you add in students. If you don’t pay for the account,
you will need to tell students which activities to do and have them print out their
homework page.
● Create a spelling list
● Assign spelling list with different choices from phonics, spelling, vocabulary,
language arts, writing, studying, and tests.
● Select students for each spelling list
● Select day when spelling assignment opens and closes; select if students do the
assignments in order
 ● After the assignment is due, you can check student progress with a paid account.

Assessment Criteria:
● Individual

ISTE Standards for Students:

Empowered Learner: Students leverage technology to take an active role in choosing,
achieving and demonstrating competency in their learning goals, informed by the
learning sciences.
1a Students articulate and set personal learning goals, develop strategies leveraging
technology to achieve them and reflect on the learning process itself to improve learning
outcomes.
1c Students use technology to seek feedback that informs and improves their practice
and to demonstrate their learning in a variety of ways.

Digital Citizen: Students recognize the rights, responsibilities, and opportunities of living,
learning and working in an interconnected digital world, and they act and model in ways
that are safe, legal and ethical.
2b Students engage in positive, safe, legal and ethical behavior when using technology,
including social interactions online or when using networked devices.

Spelling City is a technology-enhanced interactive option for all grade levels. Students
will be assessed at their level. The value of Spelling City is measurable and can provide
for authentic learning depending on which activities the teacher selects for the students
to complete. It will be used in the classroom to help students communicate their
knowledge effectively in the content areas of spelling, vocabulary, phonics, and writing.
There are many benefits to using Spelling City in the class. Students will receive
immediate feedback and their test results are automatically recorded for premium
members. Teachers can use this feedback to assign different activities to help build up
students’ spelling or vocabulary skills. Spelling City can be used as a reading unit which
includes the spelling words, vocabulary words, and writing benchmark. A teacher can
use Spelling City to differentiate the spelling and vocabulary words for each student.
Spelling City helps the teacher track student progress and stop giving whole
group-spelling tests and focus on the individual needs instead. Students benefit from
Spelling City by being engaged with interactive learning games, working independently,
working at their own pace, being able to work from home, seeing success because the
spelling lists are tailored to be just right for them. The site helps students become
self-motivated. Students can complete Spelling City on an app or a desktop.
https://www.spellingcity.com/