10 Internet Technologies Educators Should Know About

Emerging Ed Tech published a great article this month by K. Walsh outlining 10 technologies educators need to know.  Each point has multiple Web 2.0 resources and ideas listed.  HERE is the article, and here are the 10 Internet technologies you need to know about.  What are you already using?  What do you want to learn?

1. Video and Podcasting Resources 
2. Digital Presentation Tools
3. Collaboration & Brainstorming Tools
4. Blogs & Blogging
5. Social Networking Tools
6. Lecture Capture
7. Student Response Systems & Poll/Survey Tools
8. Educational Gaming
9. Open Educational Resources
10. The iPad and other tablet devices

         

Clickers in the K-2 Classroom

Who says Clickers can only be for the upper grades?  Not me!  I started using Clickers with my five-year-olds on Week 2 of Kindergarten.  Only three of them can already read, but they all know A, B, C and 1, 2, 3.  This year I took extra time to make sure they really understood the backspace icon (curly arrow) vs. the enter icon (angular arrow).  Yes, that is a big set back if you don't take the time to frontload.  I started out slow by having them answer color questions as a group.  I use Power Point for CPS (v. 6.71 is the latest) to create all of my sessions because I can easily copy and paste images from Google into the slides.  My goal is to use Clickers with my students at least once a week for an informal assessment.  All day I lunch I heard, "When are we doing the remote things again?"  Have you tried in your room yet?

Borrowed from UNF

Teaching Blog Addict: A+ Teaching Blogs

I stumbled upon a new blog this morning.  Here, Teaching Blog Addict has organized tons of blogs by grade level and subject area.  Have you found a new one to follow?

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Podcast: Words Are Like Puzzles

I have created a podcast series called Practice Play. You can find my first episode (from a previous class) here. My second episode is called "Words Are Like Puzzles," and it focuses on breaking words into syllables and deleting parts of words. It is designed for Kindergarten students to reinforce basic phonemic awareness skills.