Paige DeShazo
Early Childhood Education
My Story Book is an app that you can get on iPads. Children can create their own story, and then record themselves telling the story. In my classroom, I would use this to help the children learn creativity. They can also use their imagination to create or re-tell a story from their point of view to share with the class.
Class Dojo is a very fun way to help with classroom management. Each child has a monster with their name under it. If they do something good they get a point and it makes a fun sound, but if they do something bad they get a point taken away and it makes a negative sound. I would have this up on the projector all day so that students could see their progress, and if they need to improve their behavior or not.
Scratch JR is an app on the iPad that helps student with coding. I would like to use this is my classroom to help with directions such as: left, right, up, and down. It also helps with creativity because the students get to pick their background and character.
Go Noodle is a website that you can get the students moving around. There are popular songs with dance moves that the children will love to do on breaks or around lunch or snack time. I believe that this is a way to make learning fun for the students. They learn coordination and it helps get them out of their comfort zones a little bit.
Kahoot is an interactive game that students can use iPads or computers to answer the questions that the teacher provides on the website. I would use Kahoot as a wrap up activity to see what all the children learned and what they didn't learn from the lesson.
Smart Notebook is similar to PowerPoint, but it is more interactive. The children would be able to come up to the board and work example problems. I would use this as part of my lecture at the beginning of the lesson. With Smart Notebook, it allows you to create games that the students can come up to the board and play as well. At the end of the lesson I could go back to the lecture and provide a review.
Star Fall is an app/website that students could go to for extra practice in reading. It provides an abundant amount of games that students can play with to make learning more fun and engaging. I would use this as an option during center time. The students on the IPads/Computers would have this as one of their fun game options.