Web 2.0 just keeps getting bigger and bigger! It is hard to keep up! Here are a few applications with ideas and examples of how we are using them with our elementary students.
I use wordle with all grades K-4! One word of caution: when working with students, link right to the create page so you avoid any inappropriate wordles displayed in the gallery. We don't post to the gallery, we just print their favorite word cloud.
K - we typed family words and names to create cards for Valentine's Day
K - typed words that they know
1st - parts of speech wordles
1st - word wall words
2nd - word wall words
2nd - content area vocabulary words
3rd - important people quick facts
3rd - report cover pages
3rd - fact sharing pages
4th - biography facts
These are kindergarten examples! Powerful stuff!!
Comic Life
We use Comic life in 1st - 4th grade in lots of ways.
Goal setting - each quarter we take the students' pictures and have them record their goals, some teachers include their goals for the students on this sheet as well. Parents love to see them at conferences and what a neat way of watching the children grow throughout the year. THey love to go back and look at how they have changed - especially those toothless ones!
Story mapping
Character analysis
Fact sharing - quick and easy nonfiction reports
Skype/iChat
We love to Skype or iChat with colleagues in our own building or from around the world! We have joined integrated projects or created our own sharing! If you want to join us, contact innes.kirsten@d46.org or d46kir@aim, skype name kirs10i.
Moodle
We have joined some Moodle projects to write for an audience and participate in 100th day activities.
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