Early+Childhood+&+Elementary

**__Early Childhood & Elementary__**


 * What are the little ones doing these days?**

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 * Teachers doing some amazing things:**

Mrs. Devlin's Blog - Grade 1 Maria Knee's KinderKids Blog - Kindergarten Kathy Cassidy's Blog - Grade 1

__What is the most important 21st Century Skill?__
Take Poll General David Petraeus

Do not lose site of the underlying skill set students need to foster, compete, and thrive in this society.

Technology Toolbox Wait, you want me to do WHAT??!!

It is NOT your job to learn each and every tool! What is? Facilitating: Problem Solvers, creative thinkers, empathetic, self-directed learners Problems with that: Status quo, doing what we know, sustainability

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It is okay if you fail...let the kids see. It's at the heart of building self-esteem. Be a role model for this life-long skill.

__**Goal Setting** __

What is the unit, lesson, skill you want to teach? Don't start with the tool, start with your curriculum! media type="youtube" key="dYDMmUHhC2o?version=3" height="315" width="420"
 * Example - don't start with Excel unless you need to TEACH Excel
 * Student Motivators
 * Giving choice in presentations
 * Creating purpose in assignments
 * Remembering one's audience
 * Example - Peyton's request
 * Peyton's Recycling Project
 * Who is doing the work in your classroom? YOU or the student?
 * Tools you can use immediately to transfer the work
 * The Digital Learning Farm

__**The Digital Farm**__
 * Article
 * Jennifer Beine's Wiki - Digital Farm
 * Sue Erickson and Sue Howard's Presentation from BLC11

KWWLAQ!


 * Finding things you can use quickly
 * How to tell if they are valid and reliable

" " = Phrase - = Eliminates Site:edu = searches only university sites Site:uk = searches only uk (Great Britain) sites [|Root Database]= site for finding country codes

Google - Timeline, Reading level, Type of file

November Learning Resources NL Videos

[|The Tree Octopus] [|Dog Island]

Search Engines for Little Ones

SweetSearch Boolify KidsClick

Other Search Engines

[|Wolfram Alpha] [|Differentiate Search] Google Custom Search Engine

You need to remember the Grammar of the web and how it works to search on various search engines. [|Google.com] - Use the [|Advanced Search] feature until you learn the nuances. MAKE sure you teach the kids too! Typically people only look at first 5 websites that come up in a search.

Interactive - Eco Kids School or Schools "Online Resources" "Technology Resources" State or grade specific - You can find great things:
 * Rockingham County's Scope & Sequence
 * Oswego City Schools' amazing interactive resources
 * Wiki for Storytown made by teachers

[|McDougal Littel] [|McGraw Hill] [|Holt, Reinhart, & Winston] [|Houghton Mifflin EduPlace] FOSS

__Working with Others' Work__
Creative Commons Defined Search Creative Commons Flickr Rules

Vanessa's Levin's Great Resources

__Digital Storytelling__
WHY?

Kern Kelley's Site (I use Kern's workshop site with the understanding that everything linked on it has been compiled or created by him.)

Voice Thread Photostory - for PC iMovie08 or iPhoto for MAC
 * Voice Thread for Education Wiki
 * <span class="wiki_link_ext">Great Sample by a 5th grade class OR this one created by a student all about [|Global Warming]

Older Kids Glogster EDU Xtranormal for educators Photopeach

THERE are many others and they change all the time. Do not ask children to "make a Glogster". Allow them the choice in selecting their tool for presentation even if it's a poster board. Your rubric is their guide.

Pics/Videos you can use in projects
Pics 4 Learning Flickr pics under a creative commons license BBC Motion Gallery Phillip Martin's great clip art

**Rubrics**

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">RCampus - Create rubrics and search through hundreds already made. Easy to post to your website too. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Recipes4Success - Create your own Rubrics and then edit with standard suggestions

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">~Create these as a whole class with your kids

Teacher Tube YouTube iTunesU - Through the store


 * Start to find one or two you like and then follow the creator

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Showcase your kids!

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Get ideas from others...don't limit yourself to your country!

__Building Your PLN (Personal Learning Network)__
Twitter Twitter Hash Tag List Listorious Del.ic.ious Tagged PreK Diigo Tagged PreK Scribd - example

__Making Connections__
__Edmodo__ Wordpress __Skype__

__Silvia Tolisano - Get Globally Connected__ Finding others & ideas - Start Clicking!

__ The Power of iTunes in the Primary Classroom __
Vanessa Levin's Page iTunes - Create your own libraries of podcasts, stories read aloud, etc.

__ Resources for Obtaining Free Materials __
Donors Choose Digital Wish

= __Online Safety__ =

__My wiki page__ __School Tube's Great Links__

AT&T Game

__Other Web 2.0 Tools__
[|Quizlet] - Terrific for making quizzes and practicing vocabulary [|Study Stack] - Another Vocabulary tool [|Spelling City] - You can create an account, set up your spelling units, and then have the kids take quizzes and play games

~Any of the above three could be created by a student for extra credit or you could just have it be a job for every unit

Google Docs - Most powerful tools I've found in the last year!

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[|Polleverywhere] - Terrific for gathering questions on an assignment or engaging students in a thoughtful discussion [|Wallwisher] - Like an online bulletin board for ideas [|KidBlog] - You can set it so kids' comments are immediately up without your moderating their comments first. Just make it private.

LibraryThing - Search this teacher's catalog and start your own!

[|Skype a Teacher] - Check out this great list of other teachers who will Skype with you - Check out the Directory and then the comments at the bottom. Think school to school debate! [|Skype an Author]- Reach out to book authors

[|Read Write Think] - Terrific templates to use with kids and a great place to find lessons Intel Thinking Tools TES - Largest group of teacher resources in the world

You don't need a Smartboard to use the tools...just get Notebook downloaded.

Park Shore Pre-School

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__Fabulous PreK-2 Websites__
Starfall UpToTen Illuminations interactive Family Learning.org PreK Central Mouse Skill Resources Fisher Price PreK Sites StoryPlace PreK Library CrickWeb IXL - You have 20 or so problems a day for free City of Tempe, Arizona's Sites Sheppard Software's Free activities CBeebies - BBC - PreK BBC for Schools - all ages Brainpop Jr. Free Dance Mat Typing - if you MUST Enchanted Learning Picture Dictionary Internet 4 Classrooms National Library of Virtual Manipulatives
 * Boowa & Kwala First Clicks
 * Create a "license program"

__Fabulous PreK-2 Apps__
Pirates of Snow Island Zoo Train

Importance of Science and Math - No language barrier. It's important EVERYWHERE!

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