Easy to navigate and serves many purposes

I think that if you want an easy tool to include technology into your classroom this would be it! I loved how my students had to create something and not just write about something. I wish you could embed documents, pdfs, or google docs into the websites.

I think this is a great teaching tool. There are so many ways for students to make their learning visual with this tool. I wish there were more music options that were a little more exciting, but you can find music that is copyright free to add to your presentations.

Many teachers have students make “commercials” for a topic they researched. This is a great tool because it is multidimensional where students are recording data inside and outside the classroom. It gives real world context especially with the commercial idea because everyone knows what that is and how to try to make something more appealing. The students then use their own creative freedoms within the program to design around that idea. In art, this would be an outstanding project that could be about artists or materials or art genres. I think students are already practicing how to display themselves to the world through social media and profiles, this would take those previous skills and build onto the classroom lessons. Without this technology we could still do commercials for topics and “profiles” for aspects of art, but to have the real app where students already have the intuition to work it would be amazing. It would be paper vs online learning, either way the student is conducting the research and creating the product themselves so retaining would be the same for either.