Miss McHenry's Blog

Classroom sites can be scary. Do I have the right information on it? Do my links work? Are my parents and students looking at it and using the resources I am providing? Google Sites has really changed my perspective on a classroom site. It is user friendly and is so easy to navigate through for when you are looking at the site. This video can get you started and will show you some step by step processes to create a site for yourself. Here is my site that I created for my own classroom. I was able to put resources in my site that my students can use to review things we are doing in the classroom. I was able to put videos on how to do a math problem. And I could add quizzes or discussions that can get my students involved. Parents can use the site to see important news or to look for ways to help their students outside of the classroom.  If you were to ask me to rate Google Sites, I would give it a 5 out of 5 stars! It was so easy to use and create that I would do it ...

Let's go and explore the world! So many of our students are not able to take a trip outside of their state or even city. With the technology that we have, we need to show students what is out there and explore those areas with them. Google has set up Google Earth which allows you to explore anywhere in the World. This can be an amazing tool to use in your classroom to not only explore the world but to use it as a resource for education. Google Earth - The Google Earth tool is one that should be used often in your classroom. It allows you to travel wherever you would like in the World! You can view different cities, bodies of water, mountains etc. You can view it from the outside looking in or you can go to the street view and see what it looks like if you were on the ground. The link above show you how to start your Google Earth tour. Here is a video to get you started! Google Tour Builder - Google Tour allows you to use Google Earth as a resource in creating a tour that c...

Students LOVE (usually) videos that catch their attention when in the classroom. If you can start a lesson or help a lesson become more engaged with a video, would you? My answer would be YES! YouTube can help you edit, cut and create your own videos that can fit you and your classroom. In YouTube you can subscribe to different users who could have educational purposes for your classroom. There are many teachers out there who have YouTube channels that you can subscribe to that may show math concepts, social studies, or science videos. A cool tool that you can do with those videos is to cut and edit them so that you don't have to show the whole thing. Using Edpuzzle can help you cut the videos to fit your needs. Here is my YouTube channel that is set up for my students. Incase you need a little pep talk, here is one of my favorite YouTube kids :) AutoDraw Google not only helps with YouTube ideas and connections, there are many other tools that you can use to with you...

While trying to teach in the 21st century, we need to be able to adjust some of our classroom structures to fit the needs of our students. One of those ways is to use Google Classroom. Google Classroom allows you to invite your students to an online structure of their classwork. Here is an example of my Google Classroom. In my Google Classroom I can add discussion questions, quizzes, resources, assignments, videos and reminders for my students. There are so many options for you to use it and all you need to do is to get your students connected to your Google Classroom. Here is a video to show you how to start to set up your own Google Classroom. Another tool that you can add into your Google account that can benefit your classroom is Google Photos . Google photos is a location on your Google Account that lets you save and add any photos from online or of your own. You can create a library that you are able to share with your students or anyone else with a Google account. I ...