Cool Tools

     I will be honest in this post.  I am not technologically savvy or patient with technology.  I tried a few of the sites like Sutori , which definitely looks useful and I would love to have the students use it for vocabulary practice, timelines, or for key events in a story. However, I wanted to do so much and it was becoming time-consuming looking for images and going back and forth between all the tabs I had open.  If I was more organized though and had all my materials handy it would have been much simpler.  I will definitely try this for future review and lessons.       I really wanted to try Adobe Spark , but I was having technical difficulties and couldn't get past the initial sign up page.  I think I signed up for their monthly newsletter (oops) and then the site kept freezing.              The one I found most simple to use at the moment was Teach-nology   While it is only 6 events and very simple, students could each pick a couple of main events and g

These really are fun! I use them back and forth with my sister a lot, but never thought about using them in the classroom.  They really would be a fun and easy way to get your point across and get students more engaged.  They would be fun to use in presentations or when posting/ grading on Google Classroom.  I like that it is incorporated right up on the tool bar and is so simple to use.  I plan on using these this week either in a lesson or on a handout.  These Bitmojis are me (hopefully) this Thursday when it is -30 degrees!!

Hi everyone.  My name is Melissa Fenn and I work at East High School as a special education teacher. I signed up for this program after hearing lots of great things from colleagues.