Get your students engaged by delivering interactive lessons containing videos, virtual reality, images and slideshows, websites, sways, and assessment tools like fill-in-the-blank, open-ended responses, multiple choice, and freehand drawings. Nearpod converts your already created PowerPoint lessons with ease and can also be assigned as homework in Google Classroom lickety-split. This is a one-to-one solution making good use of mobile device technology (laptops, smartphones, tablets). Free accounts are available and premium features come with a cost. This program packs a powerful punch for both teacher and students. Take a look for yourself and if the technology is there, chalk this one up as a must-use tool in your classroom.
eMediaVA
The Virginia Department of Education and WHRO Education in part have provided eMediaVA as your resource for videos, audio, images, interactives, prompts, and assessment tools. Much like Discovery Education you can organize your own playlists, set up classes, create assignments, download lesson plans, and obtain student usage reports.
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Virtual Reality Viewers by Kellogg’s
How to Get a Free Virtual Reality App & Viewer
- Download the free Kellogg’s® Marvel’s Captain America: Civil War VR app.
- Log in or join Kellogg’s Family Rewards®.
- Buy any three participating Cheez-It®, Keebler®, Kellogg’s® or Pringles® products from 3/8/16–9/30/16.
- Earn your virtual reality viewer by uploading or texting your receipt(s). If you used a connected loyalty card when you made your purchase, then you’ve already earned it.
- Choose your viewer – Captain America or Iron Man. Limit two viewers per household, available while supplies last. Get one for home and share the second one with the school for classroom use.
Bee Bots
When you think of programmable robots you likely think of technology but did you know that Bee Bots are more than that? Bee Bots are robots designed for young children grades K-2 that stimulate critical thinking and problem solving in cross curricular activities through the use of a 
grids, graphs, or maps. The link below is an online example of how one would program the Bee Bot to move around a grid. Give it a try and see what you think.
https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/19685257/
SeeSaw – The Digital Journal App
Look what we’re doing with SeeSaw! Second graders are being introduced to using the iPads and are given explore time while I work with students one-on-one for the first time in SeeSaw. The smiles on their faces tell me this year long project is going to be a hit. And the best part is that it’s friendly, secure, and can be shared only with the teacher and the child’s parents. 
Students gain access to the app by scanning a QR Code that is unique to their class therefore student journal entries can only be made from school.
Click SeeSaw Accomplishments for a sample of what second grade students began with in Mrs. Wiedeman’s Class and Mrs. Rule’s Class.