Foundations+of+Educational+Technology

Katie Senger's wiki

Assignment 1: Ed Tech Assignment

Assignment 2: Wiki  ﻿Welcome to my Wiki:)    ﻿Assignment 3: Blogs  My [|BLOG] My 3 educational BLOGS...
 * 1) [|Kidblog]--My team teacher and I use Kidblog in our classroom. We use it to communicate with our students, for now. We log in during class meetings to share "appreciations" and suggestions for our class. We also have set up communication with students who have moved to stay in contact. The kids have starting posting about the books they are reading independently. This has been a great motivator for our students.
 * 2) 4th Grade Blog--This is the blog that my amazing team teacher created. We use this blog daily in our classroom. The kids have it bookmarked in their favorites and it is linked to websites that we have previewed. It is a great monitoring tool and an easy way to help the kids be safe on the internet.
 * 3) [|National Geographic Blog]--This blog caught my eye, and I am sure it will do the same for my students. Student love learning about the world around them and this blog gives them the opportunity learn in a fun way. They can interact with the blog and learn so much more than they would from a magazine. I was very impressed.

My 3 articles... Article 1: //Teaching Tips // //This article is a great place for me to get started. It includes different places that blogs can be created, blogging tools (which I still need to explore), information about blogging and using the internet safely, and ways to get my student to blog. This is where I will start on my "Blog Adventure:)//

Article 2: //A Vision for Classroom Blogging // //My favorite quote from this article is "connecting new to the known extends the learning." Using a blog is another way, as a teacher, that I can facilitate making that connection. Uncovering their own answers, and becoming independent thinkers and investigators is also something encouraged by the writer. I am reminded how important it is to let my students have a "voice." Blogs allow students to share and gather different perspectives on a topic they choose. Being heard is validating for anyone, especially kids.//

Article 3: //Blog Ideas // // This is a great spot to look when you think there is nothing to blog about! There are a plethora of ideas to use with students to get them into blogging. //

Assignment 4: Technology Websites Lesson plan 1: [|Technology and Reading] This lesson plan integrates a variety of technological programs to use while reading a text with students. It has student design character webs, book posters, business cards, thank you notes and letters to the author. It seems like a great way to make a book "come alive!" Super ideas.

Lesson plan 2: [|Technology and Poetry] This lesson gets the kids to research poetry topics, read poetry, write poetry, and recite poetry using a wide variety of programs such as...webspiration, podcasts/vodcasts/videos and wikispaces.

Lesson plan 3: [|Technology and Aesop's Fables] This lesson has students animate Aesop's Fables. It will

Assignment 5: Lesson Plan  Sharing personal narratives through PhotoStory

Assignment 6: Web 2.0 [|Thinkquest] is an interactive website that I have used to brainstorm ideas with my students. In guidance we talked about Ghandi's statement "Be the change you wish to see in the world." I posted on Thinkquest for the students to share different actions they could take to be a change agent. We also used Thinkquest in writing when we wanted to brainstorm different ways to be heatlty. The kids loved it and it saved A LOT of paper! The only thing that was a little tricky with Thinkquest is that I had to go through our technology department to get an account. This was just another added step, but well worth it. In the future I plan to explore all that Thinkquest has to offer and use it to connect to classrooms all over the world! Assignment 7: Educational Game or Tool [|Brain Pop] is an interactive tool that I use to support what I am teaching. It contains videos, quizes, activities, and Q&A. It explains, hundreds of topics, at my 4th grade students' levels. They do an amazing job of making learning easy, understandable, and fun! The kids respond to the robot that teaches them about anything imaginable!