This blog is intended to share information for the busy teachers at Pine Meadow Elementary School on integrating technology. There will be video links, iPad resources, helpful tips, and tech directions.
I'd like to begin with one of my favorite elementary teacher websites (well, actually it was created for media specialists, but I think the elementary teacher will find it an awesome resource).
http://webtools4u2use.wikispaces.com
This is a wiki that lists all the best in web tools, from audio and podcasting to word processing and productivity tools and everything in between! The links are listed in categories, and each category has a great description of what they are, 5 best tools in this category to testdrive, and then a long listing of additional similar resources.
One of my favorites is the listing on Drawing, Charting and Mapping Tools. The top five include:
- ToonDoo Create a comic strip or whole comic book. Lots of backgrounds, characters and styles to choose from.
- Create a Graph Generate 5 different kinds of graphs from your own data
- MindMeister A collaborative online mindmapping tool.
- Gliffy Draw, share and edit flow charts, diagrams, technical drawings.
- Scriblink An online collaborative whiteboard
Here are some reasons you might want to use them:
Help students create diagrams and drawings for reports and multimedia projects
Encourage students to create book covers and images for book reports
Brainstorm research projects
Diagram workflow for media center projects
Manage projects
Diagram stories and books - recall, sequencing, etc.
Graph data collected in polls and surveys for distribution to stakeholders
Analyze data
Help students understand and present data they have collected
Design presentations
Help students and teachers design effective presentations
Help students see relationships, cause and effect, sequences, timelines, chain of events
Teach vocabulary
Help students appreciate illustrations and illustrators and understand illustraton techniques
Provide tools for students to illustrate stories and reports
Develop spacial relationships
Planning and editing written reports, multimedia projects, research
Develop visual literacy
Provide tools for visual learners
Provide tools for non-verbal students to express ideas
Provide tools for non-English speaking students to express ideas
Generate ideas
Design and guide complex projects
Communicate complex ideas
Integrate old and new knowledge
Assess understanding
Diagnose misunderstanding
Plan library media center programs
Assess media center programs
Provide tools for digital storytelling
Create images and cartoons for the school library media center website
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