Technology in the

Classroom
Taylor Murie & Tianna Barnes
Why Use Technology in the Classroom?

Makes things more relevant and hands on to todays kids

Gives students an academic reason to use their electronic devices

Builds a rapport between you and your students - common interest

 Overview

Nearpod
What is it?
How do you create one?
Lets try it!
Pros and Cons
Socrative
What is it?
How do you use it?
Lets look at it!
Pros and Cons
Other Technology Resources
Nearpod

What is it?
An interactive website that allows teachers to develop lessons, quizzes, and formative
assessment tools that have varied responses.
Responses can have the form of drawings, written answers, pictures, web links
Nearpod lessons can be student paced, or teacher paced
Reports are automatically generated after the session
You can run anonymous responses or have students come up with fun (appropriate)
nicknames
Nearpod Demo

Lets Try It!

 Nearpod
Positives Negatives

Students can be anonymous Free trial unless your board has a

Many activities license
Can create a lesson Fill in the blanks not great
Can create a formative Touch screen devices work best
assessment tool with some of the activities
Full reports based on students,
class, and question
Can use any electronic device
Student paced or live lessons
Socrative
https://socrative.com

What is it?
An interactive website that is easy to set up
Useful for assessment - multiple choice, true or false, short answer
Questions can be presented to students in a random order for individual assessment
Reports generated automatically by class, student, and question
Socrative Demo

Lets Look!
 Socrative
Positives Negatives

Free to use Only written answers word

Random order of questions answers
Multiple question format Difficult for questions requiring
No time limit diagrams
Exit Tickets
Can use any device
 Other Technologies

Poll Everywhere Kahoot Super Teacher Tools Todays Meet

Can create word webs or Resource bank of Create seating plan Website used to have
lists of student quizzes from other Create random groups students anonymously
responses teachers Random name generator answer an open ended
Students text in their Can create your own Who Wants to be a question
responses to the poll quiz Millionaire Could be used for
Anonymity is maintained Teams or individual Jeopardy various purposes (exit
assessments ticket, etc)
 Other Technologies

Mindomo Google Drive Plickers Ed Tech Teacher

An interactive way to Online cloud that you Technology alternative Bank of multiple
create a mind map can store documents, for schools with no resources broken down
Can collaborate with images, videos, etc BYOD initiative by topic, subject and
others in real time Contains Google Slides, Alternative to ABCD other factors
Can integrate a Sheets, Docs cards Includes information on
presentation into the Very easy to navigate Can only pick one each resource (ease of
mindmap and collaborate answer use, platform, etc)
Links

Nearpod - https://nearpod.com
Socrative - https://socrative.com
Poll Everywhere - https://pollev.com
Kahoot - https://getkahoot.com , https://kahoot.it/#/
Super Teacher Tools - https://www.superteachertools.us
Todays Meet - https://todaysmeet.com
Mindomo - https://www.mindomo.com
Google Drive - https://drive.google.com/drive/
Plickers - https://plickers.com/signin
Ed Tech Teacher - http://edtechteacher.org