K-3 Teacher Resources
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K-3 Technology in the Classroom

• *How you use interactive whiteboards / smartboards

• *Do you or your class BLOG or HAVE A WEBSITE - how do you structure this and which platform do you use - eg. 'edublog'

• *How you utilize other social internet media in the classroom eg. twitter, delicious, etc.

• *Do you use 'voicethread' or smiliar with your students?

• *How you utilize your classroom computers

• *Internet safety issues...

• *PLEASE Any other 'techo' Classroom 2.0 / Technology in the Classroom ideas you can share with us...

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Ipods in my Preschool Classroom  I use ipods daily in my classroom. The children use them independently in three centers. I have a classic ipod in my music center. All the songs we sing ...

Ipods in the Classroom  PLEASE ADD YOUR IDEAS / COMMENTS AT BOTTOM OF THIS PAGE.....

Do you use ipods in the classroom?

I know of many teachers who are ordering class sets ...

More delicious links  I have a del.icio.us site that I use to save my links for classroom use: http://del.icio.us/practicalclassroomstuff

I have been collecting links ...

More than just Technology  Technology in the classroom is more than using computers and other IT things. We all use and love things like Beebots, listening posts, the internet etc....

Interactive Whiteboard for Maths and English  I think interactive whiteboards are one of the best tools for teaching. Below are just some of the lessons I have used.

*Adding on one / taking one ...

Interactive Whiteboards in the classroom  Hi, my name is Rebecca and I teach transition/year one in Darwin, NT. Our school is very technology focused and all classes have use of full class sets ...

Talking and Listening  Much has been said about using computers in the classroom, but there are a host of other forms of technology available.

Many schools are like mine ...

SMART Board Digital Collage  As a big proponent of arts education, I believe there needs to be balance and reciprocity between the hands-on, multi-sensory, REAL media approach with ...

Wii Remote for Interactive Whiteboard  Wow, just came across this great post about how to use a simple wii remote (don't even need the wii console) to make up a great low cost interactive whiteboard....

Pinky Dinky Doo  Our Kindergarten and Grade 1 children have been having lots of fun creating stories with Pinky Dinky Doo:

http://www.pinkydinkydoo.com/storybox.html ...

VoiceThread  We are using VoiceThread with Kindergarten and Grade 1.

Here's one that Kindergarten created after a visit from Alison Lester:

http://ed.voicethread....

Bee Bots  One thing we have just added to our Prep/One room which the children are just LOVING is Bee Bot play.

They are little programmable robots that remember ...

Wonderful Example of using Edublogs...  Here is a wonderful example of a Grade 1 edublog....using technology in the classroom in full swing....

Mrs Wojtera's Year 1 Class Blog

Wonderful ...

Using Wordles for Classroom Polls  I have been experimenting with www.wordle.net lately. Wow another great technology resource for the K-3 Classroom....

It does take a bit of practise ...

Handwriting and the Interactive Whiteboard  I teach Kinder and find that different sets of lines are needed to show them where to write their letters. So I have a group of pages which have different ...

digital immigrant creates photostory!  I just used Photostory 3 with my class for the first time. After a visit from an Indigenous group the children did some painting inspired by the symbols ...

First Grade Teacher  I have a SMART Interactive Whiteboard that I use throughout the day. I also use Discovery Education materials and videos in my lessons.

Along with ...

First Grade Teacher - Reading Recovery Teacher  Having received my Master's Degree in Curriculum and Instruction/Technology in Education, I find it beneficial to my students' learning to use technology ...

Kinderclips - A kindergarten blog  Hello,

Recently I have set up a Wordpress blog, http://www.eastwood.nsw.edu.au/kinderclips/
for our kindergarten grades.

Wordpress.org offers ...

Voicethread Example  Just found this - just gorgeous -

Great Voicethread example - will write more soon about Voicethread

Voicethread Example Year One

Cheers Donna...