Ms. Fluent's Blog

  I have waited for this!! Richard Byrne, from Free Technology for Teachers blog, created a blog post about Kahoot. He mentioned that Kahoot is now offering the option for the answers to be shown on the student's devices and not just on the main screen. They no longer have to look at the main screen, find the color of the correct answer, and then click on the correct color. The answers will show up right on their screen. I have wanted this for as long as I have been utilizing Kahoot in my classroom. My students love Kahoot, but they often "complain" about not seeing the answers on their own device. They get lost in the "back and forth" and they have to make sure they have a good view of the screen. Now, that has changed. I believe that many other educators will appreciate this as well, especially with the younger grades. Here is the link to the blog post if you want to check it out as well! https://www.freetech4teachers.com/2021/03/kahoot-now-displays-questions-...

  I love Screencastify and there are so many uses for this in the classroom, especially in this day in age. Now, with Covid-19 and remote learning Screencastify is a great tool to utilize to educate the students. This is a way to record your screen and create videos for your students. I chose to make a Screencastify to quickly teach my students how to create a Google Slide presentation. I teach 2nd grade, so this is a nice way to introduce Google Slides to my students. 

 I really loved making this video with Animoto. I would use this website to showcase many different things from my classroom. I used this as a video I could share with my parents discussing everything we did and learned throughout the week. I would really enjoy using this website to make an end of the year video s howing everything we learned and did throughout the year as well. Animoto is a fantastic website to create engaging and interactive videos for the classroom.   

I chose to visit the Canva Website. This website provides the user with many different opportunities to create content. This would work very well for educators because they can make presentations, instagram posts, videos, facebook posts, posters, flyers, logos, and many more artifacts for their class. I really enjoyed using this website, it is aesthetically pleasing and it was very user friendly. I chose to create a presentation and before I started creating the presentation it offered me a "tour" of the website. This website would be beneficial to educators because they can make instructional presentations, flyers and posters, and educational videos for the classroom. You do need to create an account to share the products that you create, but the account is free. They have a Canva Pro edition and you do have to pay for that one. I believe that any educator in any grade level could utilize this website, but middle and high school teachers would probably use it more often than...

  Here is my article reflection video. I really enjoyed learning about blended learning, and this article had some great information. I have not personally had to utilize blended learning, but I now have some strategies I could use if I did have to use blended learning in my own classroom.

Hello! My name is Morgan Fluent, and I teach 2nd grade at Wilber-Clatonia Elementary School. This is my third year teaching and I love every second of it. I started out my college experience taking my general education classes at Southeast Community College in Lincoln, Nebraska. I then decided to transfer to Nebraska Wesleyan University in Lincoln, Nebraska. I graduated with my Bachelor's degree in Elementary Education from Nebraska Wesleyan in December of 2017.  I have a good amount of experience with technology. I am a MAC person, so I use MacBooks, iPads, iPhones, etc. I really enjoy incorporating technology into my lessons with my second graders. However, I do not have a lot of access to technology as of yet. My school has an iPad cart with 25 iPads available for grades K-2. The rest of the grades are 1:1 with Chromebooks. Many teachers like to use technology at my school, and the iPad cart is first come, first serve. I like to use Quizlet Live, Nearpod, Flipgrid, Seesaw, Epic!...