Integrating+Technology+-+Ideas+and+Resources

__**Screencasting Apps- (Educreations, Explain Everything (paid app),**__
In the classroom –
 * Take pics reading book pages and document students reading. As students are reading, have them place their finger underneath the word they are reading. This should create a dot, thus creating a read-a-long
 * Take shots of students writing journals (the actual pages, not the process) and record them reading the journal. As students are reading, have them place their finger underneath the word they are reading. This should create a dot, thus creating a read-a-long
 * Create alternate stories of books that you are reading by taking pics of characters from the book and loading them onto your ipad or pc. Have students insert the pictures into the screencasting app and record their own story
 * Create an all about me storybook. Students can either draw pics in doodlebuddy or upload digital pics. Students then record audio.
 * Create a book about the topic you are working on in class (geography, insects, etc)
 * Storytelling without the writing! Create a picture in Feltpad or doodlebuddy and import the story into educreations or doodlecast (or like app). Have the student record audio of the story they made.
 * Video cards
 * 10 Frame Models
 * Students can create tutorials ( how to make shapes, letters, what starts with, students can find things around their house or classroom, take and upload photos)

__**Online Communication/Collaborative Sites**__
Examples: Padlet, Twitter, Voicethread, Edmodo, Wikis Ideas for classroom use: Teachers can post questions/videos/files for students to view/answer for homework and then discuss in class: Example Questions-
 * Phonics-Write down a word with –at or –an ending.
 * Write down as many adjectives as you can.
 * KWL’s
 * List 2 primary colors and name 2 things that are that color
 * Write one fact about Georgia
 * Where were you born? Let’s find it on Google Earth.
 * List different ways to make 20.
 * Take a picture of something shaped like a circle and post it
 * Tell me something you learned in PAC time.
 * Write down different animals and then sort into groups.
 * Write down one living and one non-living thing and then once everybody has done that you can sort into groups of living/non-living things.
 * Write down a question for discussion on a note. One can then then be chosen for morning meeting discussion.
 * List adjectives to describe this image…

**__Blogging Ideas __**
Kidblog, Edublog, Blogger, Wordpress Classroom Blogs: Teacher Blogs: Student Blogs
 * Post Homework
 * Classroom Daily Activities -Blog about what your students are doing
 * Student work examples and accompanying write-up about lesson
 * Classroom Rules
 * Post a writing prompt for students to respond to
 * Let students create the writing prompt
 * Weekly wrap-up posts - Have students take turns creating these
 * Reflective blogs about worked or did not work in the classroom
 * Share lesson ideas
 * Share teaching philosophies
 * Blog a sentence with mechanical and grammatical errors and have students retype the sentence correctly.
 * Provide a math problem and have students explain the steps to completing the problem.
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">Have students write a book review.
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">Have students give an online book talk.
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">Have students view an online video and write a response or a fact they have learned.
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">Have students bog about what they learned in science or social studies.
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">Have students explore an interesting web site and write an interesting fact about something they have learned.
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">Have students share opinions by blogging about a current event.
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">Have students do daily or weekly free-choice journaling.
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">Post student artwork, pictures of classroom activities, etc.
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">Have students write opinions to an issue at school (homework, lunch, hall, teasing, bullying, etc.)
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">Have students post a joke or riddle of the week.
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">Have students pretend to be characters in a book or historical characters and have online
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">conversations.
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">Create a book study for a book being read and engage in online blogging with the book’s author.

__Centers & Technology__
Create an ebook listening center Teacher can record activities in Educreations for students to complete during center Individualized skills practice

**__ Augmented Reality __**
[|Aurasma] [|2 Guys & Some Ipads Blog] Classroom Ideas: Create a gallery walk with student work as triggers for student videos E-bulletin Boards Living books - pages act as triggers and can link to webpages or student videos

__**Digital Vocabulary -**__
Thinglink, Educreations, PPT, Word, Spelling City, Flash card apps In the classroom: Students can create digital frayer models Students can create their own spelling word challenges to present to class Students can create digital flash cards

__**QR Codes**__ Create a scavenger hunt - (show pic and student has to tell which letter it starts with on a worksheet printout, number search-student has to visually represent number on paper)

__[|Thinglink]__
Thinglink is a free app and website Students or teachers can create living Phonics Cards by adding "things" to pictures of flashcards Teachers and students can create E-bulletin boards by snapping a picture of the bulleting board and adding "things" to elaborate on student work