Getting to know me through Kahoot!

For my "Digital Me" project I used Kahoot. My quiz included 8 questions about me. Kahoot is a game-based website. It is an awesome way to make a quiz using technology fun! You have the option to make as many questions as you want to the quiz to have, and you get to choose how long the class has to answer these questions. Kahoot also gives you the option to add photos to your questions.

Once you have the quiz made. Everyone that is taking the quiz can use their iphone, tables, computer and they go to www.kahoot.it. This brings them to the step to put the game pin in so they can have access to the quiz.

Once everyone is on the quiz they take it. Kahoot generates the student who gets the answer right for every question and projects the student that is in the lead!

Kahoot can be used in the classroom as a way to either pre-assess students on a topic or as a way to review a topic and the students have fun doing it!

Buckle Up! It's time to teach Social Studies

It's time to teach Social Studies!!! I am very excited to learn how to become an effective social studies teacher. History is my major and I can think back to 3 great Social Studies teachers during my school years. 

On our first day back, Dr. Smirnova started the class with a very engaging activity in which we chose  a Social Studies teacher that we had during our school years and we were able to talk about what we remembered about this teacher and why we chose them as the teacher that we think of when we think of teaching Social Studies. 

I believe that while teaching Social Studies the teacher has to be very knowledgable and engaging because it's all about the history of the world, and it's important to keep students interested and engaged during this subject. 

I can't wait to find out what topic of Social Studies we will be teaching during fieldwork, and I am excited to learn new ways to teach during this course!