Animoto

I thought that Animoto was interesting, but I can only think of a few things to do with it outside of the classroom. Although I can see how it would be useful for diverse learners and as an alternative assignment for students with disabilities, I do not like the fact that everyone who uses it has to create an account. It is an easy process, but I do not think that there would be enough instructional time in some classroom to accommodate the process. Despite this, if everyone in the class could access the website, this might be a wonderful thing to use for students to create history presentations.

Personally, I thought that the digital scrapbook is very creative and fun. I would love to create one to share with my family for the holidays. In a classroom, the teacher could create a digital scrapbook to document the classes' experiences during the year.

Google Forms

I think that google forms could be very useful in the classroom. Although it would not always be plausible, I think that it would be a good idea for differentiating your instruction. You could provide different students with different types of exams. For example, you might want to give the students in your inclusion classroom a multiple choice test with three options for each question. Simultaneously, you could provide four options or essay questions for the students in your honors classes. This would be really easy to do using this program. Also, because the text is online, taking tests like this would also be a great choice for students with disabilities. Text reading programs could be used to aid these diverse learners without taking any additional instruction time. You could just give them a set of headphones and let them take the test on the computer while the other students take it on paper.

My favorite thing about this, though, is that it can show you statistics. So, if your entire class was taking an exam, it would very easy to figure out if a large portion of the class was struggling with a single concept!

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