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PintrestThis program is a huge search engine where you can type in a subject and even add a specific topic and it will pop up with strategies, images, activities, and models for you to chose from to support your future lessons. Teachers can benefit from this program because much of what they will find had been carried out by teachers themselves and tried beforehand (reliable). Teachers can take ideas they find and even use more then one to build or modify their own lessons. This site benefits ELL students as it provides them with opportunities where they will get to work with activities that will be hands on, creative, colorful, and scaffolded to guide the students learning with more then words on a page or a recording. "There has been a huge shift in having students read complex text… making reading less interesting and comprehensible," so by using this site we can find more ways to change this outlook through strategies and materials we can provide (Wright, 2010, pg. 190). Suggestions for further use are guidance in finding charts, tools, and activities that guide writing, science, and math lessons. It is a fantastic resource when trying to find extra worksheets, handouts, and posters.
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Students can make and share documents, powerpoints, and images using this program. Students and teachers can create their own personal drive. The program is set up where there is a sidebar where you can select to upload projects and documents from multiple locations or access documents based on ones you have been working on or ones that have already been shared with you. Teachers can share their lesson plans, images, and material with other teachers to help inspire others, ask them for feedback, or to help build on a communal lesson plan. Teachers can also share these things with their students. For ELL students this can be beneficial for them them as they can come back to this area to reference beneficial tools and also look at their papers corrections and edit them as the feedback is listed. "Teachers must be patient after asking a question" and giving feedback and this is a great source to leave feedback where students can make corrections and they are more likely to do so with its organization and tracking(Wright, 2010, pg. 147). Teachers can also track if the student changed all the areas they left feedback on which helps determine effort. Suggestions for further use is using it for group projects as everyone can get involved and even from different locations. Have students upload their word documents and powerpoint projects. Students can then easily access their finished presentation on the teachers computer for presentation day. Teachers should use this to upload visuals and prior anchor charts that weren't abel to stay up on the walls. Lastly, teachers can upload spreadsheets to this program that organize mathematical data in ways that might help visually sort things for all students.