Tech Edge
Looking at all the Tech Edge videos I was amazed by all the different apps an websites that you could chose from. Some of the apps that they had even put on there I thought were games than were educational resources so it was really neat to see how to intergrate them to benefit you are your classroom. But i was just esctactic by all the different kinds that they had to chose from.
The first app that I decided to look was GeoGuesser. I had played this before and found it amusing. I had thought of try how to integrate but looking at the website are there are different maps that you can do. So if I was teaching something about a region I could have students select that map or create my own so I know students will see that place. I think this beneficial to teaching geography because it puts students in that place. Which is a cool perspective when learning about different places. Because I want my students to get a feel for the area. And its fun because the concept is a game. So what better way to learn than by playing a game. I would integrate this into my classroom for geography to again place students learn so they have a feeling of what it is like to be there.
The first app that I decided to look was GeoGuesser. I had played this before and found it amusing. I had thought of try how to integrate but looking at the website are there are different maps that you can do. So if I was teaching something about a region I could have students select that map or create my own so I know students will see that place. I think this beneficial to teaching geography because it puts students in that place. Which is a cool perspective when learning about different places. Because I want my students to get a feel for the area. And its fun because the concept is a game. So what better way to learn than by playing a game. I would integrate this into my classroom for geography to again place students learn so they have a feeling of what it is like to be there.
The next app that I had a very high interest in was the Google Classroom Video. I had an interest in this because during my Practicum my teacher and his district all used Google Classroom. Knowing this knowledge of how to make a Google Classroom while really help future educators like me because we are already familiar with it and know how to do. This will hopefully give us an advantage though teaching in the classroom because we already know how to operate it. With google classroom everything for your classroom is all in one area. Its nice to be able to set up because its pretty easy and its all online. Basically this is the equivalent of our Canvas. I would use this as a place where all my assignments can be found and done, where I let students know if anything has changed relating to the class, or if they need to be a aware of something.
For my last I chose the national archives. I thought this would be a great resource to have to be a social studies teacher. This is a great tool for students to use to research about a topic, teachers can use this because they provide educator resources. The video talked about learning how to teach students to gain the literacy of looking at primary doucments. And this has great resources to help them gain that reseource. With that being this provides teachers alot of resources to help students understand a certain time or subject. One thing that I thought was amazing for educators was the pdf's that the National Archive provides them to help guide that learning. Tons of beneficial lesson plans and worksheets to help the students learn so many great skills.