What is gynzy?
Gynzy is an online webpage where a teacher can use with an interactive whiteboard that includes tools, activities, and lessons to further students engagement and understanding of material. Interactive whiteboards are becoming more and more popular and are a great tool for teachers to use in their classes to get students up and involved in their learning.
How to use gynzy?
Gynzy is easy software to use and create. As stated above you can just use it to pull up certain tools that worked with already planned out lessons or the teacher can plan their entire lesson on the given interactive slides. For my specific project, I created an entire lesson on rhyming words with the use of tools that the website provided. Creating this lesson was not a lengthy process of all. The website already has some preloaded lessons that other users have used after some browsing, I found this specific lesson. Many of the slides that were in this presentation seemed repetitive, so I deleted some pages and added other activities that I thought would help students understand.
Gynzy and Danielson 3D
This lesson and the use of this website fits in perfectly with Danielson's Component 3D Using Assessment in Instruction because my lesson and other tools on this website provide different ways of assessing students throughout the presentation. Some of these assessment tools include: matching of words, completing the sentences, and periodical quizzes to assess students understanding.
Gynzy and Danielson 3D
This lesson and the use of this website fits in perfectly with Danielson's Component 3D Using Assessment in Instruction because my lesson and other tools on this website provide different ways of assessing students throughout the presentation. Some of these assessment tools include: matching of words, completing the sentences, and periodical quizzes to assess students understanding.
Interactive Whiteboards and the classroom
Overall Experience: I really enjoyed using Gynzy to create and adapt a lesson from. The tool was very easy to navigate and easy to use. I love the fact that this lesson that I created can be something that my co-op can display for her whole class to see and that students can interact with and participate in their learning.
Gynzy and SAMR Model: Any type of interactive whiteboard software, especially Gynzy, fits perfectly in the SAMR Model, specifically the element of augmentation. Gynzy fits in augmentation because it is using technology as the direct tool to substitute how a lesson could have previously been taught and enhances student knowledge of technology in learning.
Future Classroom: I most definitely can see myself using online software to enhance my interactive whiteboard. Most of the whiteboards that I have seen have a limited number of tools so it will be nice to add to the number of tools that I can use to make my future lessons more exciting and engaging.
Gynzy and SAMR Model: Any type of interactive whiteboard software, especially Gynzy, fits perfectly in the SAMR Model, specifically the element of augmentation. Gynzy fits in augmentation because it is using technology as the direct tool to substitute how a lesson could have previously been taught and enhances student knowledge of technology in learning.
Future Classroom: I most definitely can see myself using online software to enhance my interactive whiteboard. Most of the whiteboards that I have seen have a limited number of tools so it will be nice to add to the number of tools that I can use to make my future lessons more exciting and engaging.
Link to LEsson
https://api.gynzy.com/en/#!/bord