They Are Never Too Young To Learn

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They AreNever TooYoungTo Learn
Jennifer Wagner projectsbyjen_at_gmail.com
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Resources

• What Every Teacher Should Know About Technology
  -- Bernie Poole
• Blogging, It's Elementary, My Dear Watson --
  Lorrie Jackson
• Tech-ing Wisely in the K-2 Classroom -- Tech Team
  Education World
• Using Technology as a Learning Tool, Not Just the
  Cool New Thing Ben McNeely
• Math Instruction Can Be Enhanced by the Techie
  Teacher -- Marilyn Western
• Literacy Technology in the Elementary Classroom
  -- Ira Socol
• Podcasting in the Elementary Classroom -- Wes
  Fryer (From EdTechTalk "It's Elementary Webcast"
• Using Technology to Enhance Literacy in
  Elementary School Children -- Dr. Alice Christie
• It's Elementary!! Using Electronic Portfolios
  with Young Students -- Dr. J. Moritz Dr. Alice
  Christie
• Primary Resources.co.uk -- Lots of interactive
  downloads

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Brent Coley

• Each day, a student in Brents
• classroom is assigned to be the
• Roving Reporter.  His or her job is to write
  short article
• about what took place in class that
  day. ColeyCast is Room
• 34's very own podcast! Recorded by the students,
  each
• broadcast highlights some of the exciting things
  we're
• learning in our classroom. Mr. Coley has created
  specially
• designed PowerPoint presentations that can serve
  as color
• flash cards to help you review some of the
  concepts
• studied in class.

School Tovashal Elementary Schools Grade
5 Location Murrieta, CA
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Kathy Cassidy

• Kathy teaches a class of 6 year
  olds in Moose Jaw, Canada who are inviting
  the world into their classroom to help them
  learn.
•   In her class they call fluency reading
  smoothly. She had her students each write about
  their reading then recorded each of them
  reading a couple of pages and posted it online. 
  Kathy has also established blogging buddies,
  where pre-teachers in college read comment on
  her students blogs.  This enables the students
  to receive feedback as well as help the
  soon-to-be teachers see ways of using blogging
  with their classrooms.

School WestMount School Grade 1 Location Moose
Jaw, Canada
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Maria Knee

• Each child has their own blog, off
• Marias blog. They type entries every couple
• of weeks. If they have a photo they take
• of some work they can post it or do a project.
• They type like they writerepresenting the sounds
• they know with letters they know. The only
• keyboarding worked on is encouraging them to
• use two hands for the two sides of the keyboard.

School Deerfield Community School Grade
Kindergarten Location Deerfield, NH
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Kathy Shields

• Small Voices podcast produced by Kathy
  Shields, as a kindergarten teacher and now as a
  3rd grade teacher,
• she experimented with podcasting, a
• Promethean interactive whiteboard, student blog
  posting, purchased 10 OLPCs for her classroom
  overseas.

School Creek View Elementary Grade K
3 Location Alpharetta, GA
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Carol Broos

• The fourth graders start
• on Sound Studio and the
• keyboard to record their stories. They
• compose music and produce projects that
• involve multi-media. Students comment on
• each others compositions and share files
• within the school. Sunset Ridge just started a
  district-wide
• podcast website www.pod29.com where students and
• teachers can post podcasts on the web.

School Sunset Ridge School District 29 Grade
4-8 Location Northfield, Illinois
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Allanah King
Working primarily with 9 10 year olds,
Allanah King encourages her students to blog,
podcast, skype, and create wikis. Allanah tests
out each tool herself first to become acquainted
with possibilities. The school blog also serves
as a portal for parent communication. Video
http//edtalks.org/play.php?vid146

School Appleby School Grade Primary
School Location New Zealand
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YOU

• Please share the ways you
• are taking advantage of new
• opportunities within your classroom.
• Please dont boast about the tool boast
• about the learning. ?
• Teacher Name, School, Grade

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They AreNever TooYoungTo Learn
Jennifer Wagner projectsbyjen_at_gmail.com
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• Links Mentioned in this session
• Resource Links
• http//www.education-world.com/a_tech/tech/tech22
  7.shtml
• http//www.education-world.com/a_tech/tech/tech2
  17.shtml
• http//www.education-world.com/a_tech/tech/tech19
  5.shtml
• http//www.educause.edu/Resources/EducatingtheNe
  tGeneration/UsingTechnologyasaLearningTool/6060?ti
  me1234388253
• http//www.edzone.net/mwestern/elemath.html
• http//ldaofmichigan.org/articles/early_interven
  tion.pdf
• http//www.speedofcreativity.org/2007/08/13/podca
  st179-podcasting-in-the-elementary-classroom-a-con
  versation-on-edtechtalk/
• http//www.west.asu.edu/achristie/NECCHTML/index.
  htm
• http//www.alicechristie.org/pubs/Moritz-Christie
  .pdf
• http//www.primaryresources.co.uk/index.htm

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• Links Mentioned in this session
• Teacher Links
• http//mrcoley.com/
• http//www.mrcoley.com/media/coley_podcast.mp3
• http//staff.prairiesouth.ca/cassidy.kathy/index
  .html
• http//www.classblogmeister.com/blog.php?blogger
  _id51141
• http//kinderteacher.podomatic.com/
• http//www.pod29.com/
• http//web.mac.com/carolbroos/Carol_Broos/Home.h
  tml
• https//21stcenturylearning.wikispaces.com/Allan
  ahKing?fprint
• http//edtalks.org/play.php?vid146

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• Photo Credits
• Slide 1
• Personal Photo
• Ryan Bretag
• Slide 10
• Image Purchased through iStockPhotoFile
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