ABC 123; Using Technology in the Primary Grades
Break-out Session at Illinois Technology Conference for Educators
When: Friday
Time: 12:45-1:30
Location: Ruby
You are invited to join the IL-TCE Conference "Ning"!
This "online space" or social network site has been setup for everyone
attending IL-TCE 2008. This is the place to locate presenter's handouts, photos,
blogs, and discussions centered around the conference.
Videos from the classroom
Software
Why Use Kidspiration?
Created for K-5 learners, Kidspiration® provides an easy way to apply the proven principles of visual learning. Students build graphic organizers by combining pictures, text and spoken words to represent thoughts and information. Younger learners develop early literacy skills, and more advanced students improve comprehension skills and better organize ideas for writing. Inspiration is geared towards the 5th grade and up audience of learners.
Kidspiration/Inspiration Resource examples
Graphic Organziers Presentation
Why Use KIDPIX?
This multimedia software can be integrated into all of the curriculum areas. From drawing, painting, illustrating, and adding text, KIDPX puts the desgin in the students' hands.
Time line activity / Internet Research and KidPix
Why Use Comic Life?
Using the comic genre style and presentation, Comic Life allows the user to choose from many different template to create pages. Comic Life works seamlessly with iPhoto. The user can choose filters for photos to make them look printed, hand-drawn, painted and even 'night vision'. There are captions and speech bubble options, titles and text boxes. Comics can be printed, emailed, saved as .pdf’s, exported to Quicktimes or posted to webpages. Integration of Comic Life is endless!
Comic Life meets the curriculum
Web tools
Why Use Discovery Streaming?
Introduction to technology integrated literacy activities
Behind the Bars (Zoo)
Animal Alphabet
50 ways to integrate Discovery Streaming
Why use Voice Threads in the classroom?
Media as collaborative spaces with video, voice and text commenting.
Why blog in the classroom?
A blog (sometimes referred to as a weblog) is a Web publishing tool that allows authors to quickly and easily self-publish text, artwork, links to other blogs or Web sites, and other content. Blogs work well for students because they can be worked on at any time and any place with a computer with Internet access. Blogs can be utilized and integrated by computer savvy teachers to create a classroom that extends beyond the boundaries of the school. Students will find these blogs convenient and easily accessible.
In addition to providing teachers with an excellent tool for communicating with students, here are some otherbenefits and uses of blogs in the classroom.
Sharing Cultures, Sharing Knowledge | Thoughts from 3A
Room 36 Room 114 Questions about Third Grade
Internet
Why Use Internet Activities?
Use of the Internet can be effective with on-line practice activities created with curriculum content in mind.
Teacher webpages Reading States
Little Explorers Picture Dictionary - Enchanted Learning
PolarMLKGroundhog DayPenguins|
More "neat" stuff
Why Podcast in the classroom? Podcasting offers an ideal tool for the creative expression of knowledge preferred by today's students, and provides an exciting way for students and educators to explore and discover educational content. Podcasts are audio or video files that are automatically delivered over a network, then played back on any Mac, PC, or iPod. When students create a podcast for class, they not only learn the content in a creative way, they learn 21st-century communications skills at the same time.
Podcasts found on iTunes
Podcasts found on EPN
Podcast examples
Lyon School Podcast Page | Our City Podcast
Why use iPods in the classroom?
Why use Digital Cameras in the classroom?
"When students take the pictures and actively use them for purposeful knowledge, you have a dynamic combination for engagement and active learning." (McAnear, 2004, p.4)
Digital Cameras in the Classroom
Bookmarking in or for the Classroom
In a social bookmarking system, users save links that they want to remember and/or share. These bookmarks are usually public, and can be saved privately, shared only with specified people or groups, or another combination of public and private domains. The allowed people can usually view these bookmarks chronologically, by category or tags, or via a search engine.
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Check out Beth Pollack-Burkes's F.R.E.E. Presentation for great resources, too!
Standards
National Education Technology Standards - Students
Along with looking at State Curriculum Standards when integrating technology, it is important to know what technology standards may apply and what goal you are looking to meet.
The NETS Students works to define standards for students, integrating curriculum technology, technology support, and standards for student assessment and evaluation of technology use.