Nearpod

Nearpod is a website with interactive technology for lessons.  Teachers can create a presentation on a lesson that they wish to share with their students.  The students would be able to access these videos or presentations anytime and anywhere.  Cost for Nearpod can go all the way up to $349.  It does have a free option but you have many more things you can access if you pay for it.  It has premade lessons already available to teachers for many different subject areas.  It even has an area on Digital Citizenship.  You can post assessments after videos for your students to take to test their knowledge or to make sure they were paying attention.  This also helps to see if the students understand a topic.  If you have many students struggling, you may need to do some more in depth teaching on the topic.  Nearpod also connects to google classroom.  This makes sharing things with your students much easier.  Students can take polls with peers on topics also.  Nearpod also give you the option to take virtual field trips.  This can be exciting for students who may have never traveled outside their hometown before.  There is an interactive whiteboard in the app where students can draw, type, or add pictures.  You can give the students open ended questions to answer where they are able to give their opinion and not feel like there is a right or wrong answer.  There is also content for your ELL students as well. 

This resource is one that I will look into for my classroom.  Even if I am not able to have a full flipped classroom having a place where my students can go for extra help and teaching is something, I would like to invest in.  Students should be able to have a place where they can go at home to watch videos on lessons for Certain topics if they feel they need extra help.