Ms Mathias Education Technology blog

       Nearpod is an online presentation tool that  helps educators make  the curriculum  interactive, whether in the classroom or virtual . The program allows teachers to create interactive presentations that can contain Quizzes, Polls, Videos, Collaborate Boards, and much more. Nearpod has many benefits with students such as creating a  comfortable and encouraging classroom that also ensures that students are on task and participating with its use of diversity of how students reply based on their comfort whether it may be typed, through imagery, or summited through a video/voice recording.       Nearpod  has certain limitations towards its users, though. For Silver accounts, which is the free accounts that allow up to 40  students  join per lesson. If you and your school/district has a Premium Plus account that would allow up to 250  students  to join per lesson with paying a $29 monthly fee...

       In todays blog I wanted to discuss the use of VR and AR learning as an educational tool! The tool that I wanted to talk in depth today is  Google Expeditions.  Google Expeditions is  a virtual reality education app that  enables teachers to take their classes   to  Go on  a virtual field trip with  multiple  places of arts and cultures.  Google Expeditions  consists of five subjects that you can interact with being: Arts, Technology  , History,  Natural History,  Science and  Geography which is giving schools the ability to  their students to truly experience things they couldn't have with just staying in the walls of the classroom.      This tool of learning helps both students and teachers of all age groups from K-12. These tools  don't only just help students get a sense of education on cultures that they haven't seen before, but it's...

      When I begin teaching, i plan to teach second grade. I want to teach second grade to help students with reading fluency  and reading comprehension using taught skills.