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Voice Threads, a wonderful tool for the classroom!

http://voicethread.com/share/769637/

VoiceThread is a wonderful tool that can be used in the Elementary Classroom. Teacher exposes ideas, using pictures and narrating. Students can share voice comments to enhance the learning process. Above is a link to a Social Studies voicethread talkin about cultture and tradition in a 5th grade class.

Hi Mrs. Palmer
I am Mario Gonzalez, Physical Education Teacher at Sharp Elementary. Now using web 2.0 tools for physical education. I will be posting daily fit comments on my new blog keep healthy with CATCH.

Wikis in the Classroom

Wikis in the Classroom.....? A classroom teacher explains how she utilizes Wiki for classroom learning. I found this video in Teacher Tube. I think it is very intresting. I hope you enjoy it and find it useful.

Wiki in the Classroom?

Wikis have a tremendous potential in aiding education in K-12 classrooms. Wikis are being used by educators to conduct or follow-up after professional development workshops or as a communication tool with parents. The greatest potential, however, lies in student participation in the ongoing creation and evolution of the wiki. Wikis can be used in classrooms for pedagogical, administrative and social goals. Wikis are easy to use for everyone, not just technical users by providing a simple interface, a visual page editor, and a focus on community collaboration. "Wikis are an exceptionally useful tool for getting students more involved in curriculum. They’re often appealing and fun for students to use, while at the same time ideal for encouraging participation, collaboration, and interaction." (Teaching.org 2008).

Web 2.0?

What is Web 2? Web 2.0 is the state, or means of being “connected” with the rest of the world, in an educational means in order to share, post, interact, contribute, obtain, gather, comment, on information. Information is “knowledge”. It is this new way “to inform and get informed” therefore, that is and will be the new method our new digital students learn. ( O'Reilly Media 2007) Web 2.0 is the tool for “e-learning” as Mr. O-Hear mentions. Blogs, wikis, and podcasting are just some of the software tools that are making this “connection” possible. (O'Hear, S. August 8. 2006) Our job as MTT or Technology Support Teachers is to inform, motivate, and train teachers to utilize, take advantage and integrate these wonderful “social software” to enhance and accelerate our digital students’ learning.

I found this great web site called a rhyme a week! I thought its was great, and I am going to use it with my students! It comes with a poem, picture cards and an activity where the fill in the missing word! I loved it!!!

http://curry.edschool.virginia.edu/go/wil/rimes_and_rhymes.htm#Week1

Reading Coach, Sharp Elementary

Teachers are overwhelmed with all their curriculum requirements. It us our job as MTTs (Master Technology Teacher) to provide them with help. Tutorials are a wonderful tool for us to provide them. As an MTT it is our job to recognize their learning need and facilitate to them these tutorials.

Sharp Elementary is Wiking!

Sharp Elementary 2nd and 4th grade teachers are working on a classroom wiki where their students will be posting their classwork in their our wiki page.

www.monkeyseemonkeydo.pbworks.com

Purpose of this blog?

This blog is to be used as a tool for elementary teachers to share questions, comments, ideas with other elementary teachers inorder to integrate technology better in their curriculum.