New Beginnings

With a new school year fastly appropriating it is time to begin the planning process for your
 classroom and how you plan to use technology. In my next few entries I will be sharing technology that I intend to use in my NEW kindergarten class. Yes! Kindergarten,  I am excited to bring technology to these digital natives, knoing that most of the work is going to fall on me in the area if planning, management,  and effectiveness of use.

If you have any ideas to share please do, I woukd greatly appreciate them!

Use Your Summer to help You Plan you Technology Intergration

I know that summer is the time that teachers take a break from writing lesson plans and use thise tim to focus on their personal needs.

However this is also a great time to plan how you will use technology.  This the time to look up the pricing of new equipment,  learn to use a technology you already have better, or recreate a plan to get funding for additional technology.

Although it is summer,  you can create accounts at Adoptaclassroom or Donors Choose to create projects for next school. You can savevthese projects rather than publish them, so that you will recieve the materials when you need them. You may also need to edit the projects prior to publishing due to grade or class size.

Share any ideas you have for the summer Vacation!

Technology and Inventory

Inventory is a tedious task that is necessary for schools to complete on a yearly basis. Why? Because a count of what is in the building is needed to ensure that funds are sent appropriately. With the funding concerns of schools today, knowing what you have, what you need, and how to bridge the gap between the two.

Being a tech savy educator is difficult when you find negligence of any form. Your tolerance gets tested at many levels. Please!!! Stay strong in you efforts to make at your school or district. Technology is a new field in education and the diffusion of technology moves at various rates. Continue to be a catalyst in the feild: one classroom,  one co-worker, one grade level at a time, one school, or district.

Stay strong and fight the tech battle

My Technology Specialist Comrades

Integrating Technology into a Fables lesson

Over the course of a the past two weeks, I have been working with my 2nd grade students on a language arts lesson that I wanted to use our technology standards too. So, I took the writing components of the lesson and extended the lesson to incorporate technology as the finished product. The result of these lessons were: students wrote a fable, students illustrated their fable, students recorded their fable (technology), and students typed their fable their fable.

As a surprise to the students I am compiling their work to create a classroom Fables movie. This movie will be used to demonstrate to other teachers especially primary grade teachers that technology can be used in their classroom.

At this time I am unable to share the movie with the public because we are checking county protocol for personal presentation. I soon as I have permission I will gladly share this wonderful experience with you.

Ring in the new year

It has been a long time since I've blogged, but I have decided to ring in this year with consist blogging about technology and lessons I am learning in my classroom using technology. Take this journey with me. I plan to share with you every month at least.

Happy Tech-ing in the new year