Pam

Pam's Technology Page- The ideas from our technology PDP has been invaluable for us to use with students. For weeks, my students have been recording their at-grade-level readings on an ipod to increase their fluency. The student's voices have been saved to the computer to share improvement of their reading with them and their parents.

Our fusion page will help communication with parents. My fifth grade students are sharing their rating of the Indian Paintbrush books they have been reading at home on the fusion page. They will use the internet to vote on their favorite book this week.

Interaction on the smart board will enhance student learning, along with the website pages we've found and studied. High interest books will be exciting for students to read and tracking comprehension questions on the books will be helpful.

Hats off to Marcia and Molly for planning and sharing their ideas with the staff! This was the most useful and enjoyable PDP ever!!

1-21-2011 We set up a page in Wikki, sent messages to members and typed notes about our experiences. What a wonderful tool to use with students to motivate their learning! We also set up our profile page on schoolfusion. We typed our personal statement, selected a pix, and then had a slide show on managing the fusion pages, learning about the tools to change our page.

1-27-2011 Explored Wiki sites around the country.

1-28-2011 Demonstrated how to use Wiki free. Set up fusion page, with the spotlight on tools, setting calendar and background, time schedule, teacher background and philosophy.

2-10-2011 Studied notebook on smartboard. Used Smart Tech to play learning games. Modeling on how to interact with students. We played an active role learning the applications on Smart Board.

3-4-2010 Marcia discussed Student digital citizenship and its importance. A handout was provided with an example of a kid pledge. We were then exposed to the storybird.com site where artistic work is provided for storytelling. It's a wonderful idea to expand writing with art. We also tinkered with wordles.com and made a word cloud. This site will be helpful for many applications of colorful words in the classroom. Then off to the h.s. for training with MaryEllen from Capstone. The online reading program will give students a big selection of books to read with their interest choice. The books will be grouped by lexile ratings after the students take a quiz. The program can be extended for at-home use now and in the summer.