Tool #5

Describe for your readers how you think each tool can be incorporated into your classroom - how you could see the tool being used by you instructionally and your students to demonstrate their understanding of a concept or topic in your classroom.

The first tool I used was very familiar (Wordle) and I believe it will be very useful for my students. Especially after they have learned sight words and letters and are able to do something independently. At first I will use it whole class for experience and modeling.




Also, MakeBeliefComix will allow students to beging to understand character, setting, dialogue while playing with the characters and using immagination for writing. Again, it will be necessary to model for my students.

Other tools I used where Animoto to create movies of the students or field trips and TikaTok.

Many new tools that will give the students more tools to use that they can continue to use in later years.

Tool #4 Moving to the clouds

Google Docs is a tools that helps to create many short cuts to creating documents, recreating and sharing the all the people involved.

While exploring the tools I did several different things including creating a Document and then sending it to the person who needs to give input into its' content. It was a much easier process then having to create, save, open an email, insert the document and wait for a reply to make the corrections. I like the ability to collaborate.

I also used the Google calendar and sent new calendar appointments to other persons who are outside of the SBISD system. It allows me to reach a broader spectrom of persons. I think I will use the Google calendar for my PK parents next year for classroom reminders, and I will also have my room mom add PTA dates and volunteers to our calendar.

The other tools I explored and will use with my students are Sites to create a PK class website and Groups to facilitate class discussion with parents about classroom volunteering, field trips, reading, etc.

Are their other tools that teachers have used that are easy to modify for younger students?

ABC song

Days of the Week

Tool #3 Embedding Video

After exploring kidtube, teachertube and youtube I found all of them very useful.

Thank you Ms. Frazzled for posting the videos from Atomic Learning because I found the three videos on Embedding Video.

I loved finding video that are usable in the first weeks of the school year, Brown Bear and Chicka Chicka Boom Boom.

Brown Bear, Brown Bear What Do You See? read by Bill Martin, Jr.

Chicka Chicka Boom Boom

Tool #2

The URL below is a Pre-K blog that shows this teachers' Pre-K year. She also provides links to other websites, tools for a Pre-K/Kinder classroom and resources for beginning of the year.




http://prekinders.com/links/


http://mrsforst.wordpress.com/


http://preschoolbystormie.com/



I liked looking speciffically at other Pre-K sites, because they all provided resources that could be incorporated into the current Pre-K curriculum.

Leaving my comment on someones' blog is a good experience. I liked seeing what others had done and also the way that others are thinking about the use of technolgy in the classroom. This really is an open path that needs to be explored and looked at indepth to determine what you can add to your own class and give your students additional resources to use in their education.