Technology Integration-Thoughts?

Technology Integration.  Wikipedia states that, “Technology Integration is the use of technology tools in general content areas in education in order to allow students to apply computer and technology skills to learning and problem-solving. Generally speaking, the curriculum drives the use of technology and not vice versa.”  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technology_integration

KerPoof-Web site Review

KerPoof! You probably have heard that word during a magic show, but did you know that it is also an awesome web site that teachers and students can use to create movies, drawings, pictures, stories, spell a picture, and more.  This web site can be used solely by teachers and/or students for personal use or can be used together with teachers and students for educational use.

Top 10 List-Kdg., 1st, 2nd Grade Web Sites

Top 10 Kindergarten, 1st and 2nd grade web sites

These web sites can be used for personal use, teacher use and/or student use.  Web sites that can be easily integrated into your everyday classroom curriculum.

  1. Starfall

            An awesome reading/writing web site with an enormous amount of free games/activities and now a subscription extension to it that includes math.

  2. Bookflix

            A subscription web site that most AEAs subscribe to for their schools to use that includes fiction and nonfiction stories published as both movies and an eBook format that reads that story to the students out loud.

  3. Everyday Math

            A great web site that provides games/activities related to the EveryDay Math curriculum.

Dock

Did you know that the applications at the bottom and sometimes on the side of your computer screen are just short cuts?  Where they are located is called the Dock.  These are not the full applications just the short cuts and if they are deleted (poofed) off of the dock they are not lost.  Also the applications in your dock can be removed and others can be added as the dock usually starts off with a default group of applications.

Wordle

A free web site that is great for both teacher use and student use is Wordle.  Wordle allows you and/or your students to list different items related to a certain topic/theme such as Favorite Things about Eason Elementary.  When the students type out their list within the editing mode (click on Create at the top) and then they click Go it jumbles their list of words with different fonts, colors, shapes, sizes and angles of the text.  Every student could be doing the same topic/theme, but their finalized product would be published differently depending on how Wordle jumbles up their words.  Of course you and/or your students can change the layout, color, size and shape of the jumbled words after it is published and before it is printed.

DVD Player

One application that probably does not effectively get used a lot is the DVD player.  Click Go at the top of the screen and then Applications.

and then look for DVD player and double click on it.