Sarah+Schmidt

Email: Sarah.Schmidt@k12.sd.us Website: [] Lesson: 5th Grade Presidential Power Points District inservice: ===I will be doing my inservice at the beginning of the year for approximately 2 hours at the Elementary Staff Inservice. For my district inservice I will be covering some of the links and helpful tools that have been provided throughout the teacher academy. I will be sharing the following things:===


 * ===I will begin by talking about 21st Century Learning Skills and showing a video (Borrowed from the academy class)! I will also cover the DDN Curriculum to help teachers realize that their are other resources already created and out there for you.===
 * ===KeepVid: Providing teachers with a way to bring in educational videos from YouTube that have been blocked at the school district.===
 * ===Polling Everywhere: Providing teachers a way to survey their students via other forms of media===
 * ===Twiddla: Provide teachers with a free way to have a meeting with students so everyone can interact and provide their input at one time.===
 * ===Edmodo: Providing teachers with a way to communicate with their students even away from school in an enclosed/safe environment!===

===The reason I chose these things was because these are things that will help with some of the problems we have been facing in the last few years with things being blocked and not being able to communicate with students in a new and fun way. I also chose the last 2 items to provide the teachers at my district with things they haven't yet learned. Hopefully they will be exposed to new things and be able to take at least one thing away from the inservice.===