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Allison Jennings

ImageChef - Word Mosaic - 7 views

I like that there are instructions on the site to help you. It is also nice that after you are done designing you can easily email or post to another website. I agree that it would be a great too...

artwork and image creation blogging

started by Wendi Loggins on 29 Oct 09 1 follow-up, last by Allison Jennings on 29 Oct 09
Katie Whitaker

CarePages - 18 views

I know a few different families from my high school and church that have used CarePages to keep people updated about how their child was doing. This is a wonderful way for the family to share with ...

techhome blogging

started by Gayle Smotherman on 27 Oct 09 3 follow-ups, last by Katie Whitaker on 02 Nov 09
Kristen Hall

Website Creation- Jimdo - 4 views

Jimdo is used to create websites where teachers can post class pictures and videos, a calendar with weekly activities, and class news. It is a creative way for teachers to include parents in the ch...

websitecreation techeducators

started by Kristen Hall on 04 Nov 09 no follow-up yet
Brittany Milner

The Art Zone - 4 views

techchildren techeducators artwork and image creation

started by Brittany Milner on 04 Nov 09 no follow-up yet
Anna Berrier

Floorplanner - 5 views

www.floorplanner.com

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shared by Anna Berrier on 04 Nov 09 - Cached
  • Anna Berrier on 04 Nov 09
     
    Floorplanner is a resource that I discovered in my EDIT 2000 class and have used numerous times since then. It is an interior design software that helps create layouts and floorplans, as the name might suggest. What does this have to do with education, right? My original use for it was to create my ideal classroom in the land of unlimited resources. If I wanted to, I could go back in and create a more realistic classroom so I could visually lay out how I wanted to conserve my space. This tool would be useful for anyone trying to visually plan out how to lay out a space, whether it be a classroom, bedroom, hospital room, cafeteria, etc. This resource taught me a lot about classroom layout and the way to make a classroom more efficient and user-friendly, which is huge in any educational setting.
Kristen Hall

Webs - 0 views

members.webs.com/...sitemanager

websitecreation webdesign

shared by Kristen Hall on 04 Nov 09 - Cached
  • Kristen Hall on 04 Nov 09
     
    Webs is a website creation tool that allows users to blog, share videos and photos, and engage in discussions in forums. The teacher could create a class website with pictures and videos of the children engaging in various activities. Parents could access this website to see what their children have been doing in class each day.
Michelle Pederson

Wix Website Creator - 4 views

Wix is a site where anyone can create their own website. It is free, after you create an account. This site is very user-friendly, giving you steps to follow to set up your website, and it gives yo...

techchildren wikis web2.0 websitecreation

started by Michelle Pederson on 04 Nov 09 no follow-up yet
Jessi Williams

Collaborative Document Creation - Adobe Buzzword - 3 views

Adobe Buzzword is a program that is new to me, but I had a lot of fun learning to use it. The site is used mainly to create and collaborate on PDF files. The tool is free, but you must set up an ...

techeducators community collaborativedocumentcreation creation

started by Jessi Williams on 03 Nov 09 no follow-up yet
Shelby Jackson

Glogster - 2 views

http://www.glogster.com/edu/ Glogster is a site in which you are allowed to create a blog-type page to share with others. This technology allows creators to post videos, graphics/pictures, text, a...

web2.0 techeducators techchildren

started by Shelby Jackson on 05 Nov 09 no follow-up yet
Bonnie Blagojevic

All Auburn kindergarten students getting iPads this fall | Sun Journal - 3 views

www.sunjournal.com/...1011728

ipad maine kindergarten

shared by Bonnie Blagojevic on 07 Apr 11 - No Cached
  • Brian Puerling on 10 Apr 11
     
    I think it is great that some districts are getting this new technology out into classrooms, and particularly early childhood classrooms...but I am finding that there is often a piece missing--the professional development or training that shows teachers "what to do with this thing".
Tanya Ramsay

Take a Giant Step: A Blueprint for Teaching Young Children in a Digital Age - 15 views

joanganzcooneycenter.org/Reports-31.html

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shared by Tanya Ramsay on 04 Nov 11 - No Cached
  • Sean Naughton on 05 Nov 11
     
    Great link. Thanks for the post. Definitely something I will read over the weekend.
  • Tanya Ramsay on 18 Nov 11
     
    PLA Report
  • Tanya Ramsay on 22 Nov 11
     
    Thank you, I'm a novice bookmarker and don't want to lead anyone astray if my sources aren't valid - do read on your own :)
Emily Kmetz

Using Technology in the Early Childhood Classroom - 12 views

teacher.scholastic.com/...using_technology.htm

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shared by Emily Kmetz on 24 Oct 11 - Cached
  • Modern technologies are very powerful because they rely on one of the most powerful genetic biases we do have — the preference for visually presented information.
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  • The developing child requires the right combination of these experiences at the right times during development in order to develop
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  • On the other hand there are many positive qualities to modern technologies. The technologies that benefit young children the greatest are those that are interactive and allow the child to develop their curiosity, problem solving and independent thinking skills.
  • Computers allow interaction. Children can control the pace and activity and make things happen on computers. They can also repeat an activity again and again if they choose.
  • Yet external symbolic representation such as the written word, visual images on television, and complex three-dimensional videography are all sensed, processed, stored, and acted on by the human brain. Because the brain literally changes in response to experiences, these "new" (from a historical perspective) experiences (the written word or television) cause changes in brain development, brain organization, and brain function that were never expressed hundreds of generations ago.
  • So to tape a conversation and replay it for an adult means something entirely different than when a three-year-old hears their voice on a tape. These experiences can be very positive and mind-expanding for a child — as long as they are done at the right time.
  • Children need real-life experiences with real people to truly benefit from available technologies.
  • As parents think about the future they need to realize two things: technology is not going to go away and we are in the midst of a major sociocultural quantum shift. These technologies are revolutionizing the world our children will live in. So our task is to balance appropriate skill-development with technologies with the core principles and experiences necessary to raise healthy children.
  • I think the key to making technologies healthy is to make sure that we use them to enhance or even expand our social interactions and our view of the world as opposed to using them to isolate and create an artificial world.
  • In the end, as with all other tools, adults must protect children from misuse or inappropriate access.
  • Technologies should be used to enhance curriculum and experiences for childre
  • I believe parents and teachers can take advantage of the interactive qualities of a computer to enhance the experiences available to children.
  • Unfortunately, technology is often used to replace social situations and I would rather see it used to enhance human interaction
  • n addition, there are a number of specialized programs that allow children with certain information-processing problems to get a multimedia presentation of content so that they can better understand and process the materia
Bonnie Blagojevic

LTP | Getting Started: "I Wanna Take Me a Picture" - 2 views

cds.aas.duke.edu/wanna.html

techeducators digital_photographychildren

shared by Bonnie Blagojevic on 16 Sep 09 - Cached
  • we’re living in a visual culture
  • benefits of positive visual stimulation
  • Even very young children, when encouraged, have the ability to express their complex emotional lives visually.
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  • until the second or third grade a child’s predominant means of self-expression is drawing.
  • But when they’re just beginning to write, they often rely on their drawings rather than their writing to convey the meaning of the story.
  • the need to attend to our neglected physical and visual surroundings
  • and the need we all feel to articulate and communicate something relevant about our personal and communal lives.
  • thirty years of thinking about how we learn, and how we express ourselves with images.
  • when I demonstrated how the camera worked to the people I wanted to photograph, everyone, myself included, felt more at ease.
  • Their desire to be photographed was as strong as their desire to photograph.
  • The children’s pictures were more complicated and disturbing than mine — and, I began to realize, much closer to what it felt like to be there.
  • Merton’s photograph reflects that fear.
  • Their pictures and writings made for an uncompromising look at the problems they faced.
  • It’s unlikely that the young people would ever have written what they did without the pictures to prompt them (Kathy’s writing came from the beautiful landscape photographs she’d made), and the pictures would have been difficult to decipher without the stories to accompany them.
  • their photo-essays were a starting point for acknowledging and discussing, in their own voices, a very tough predicament. (
  • how photography and writing stimulated one another. Many of the students I worked with had trouble writing; they would labor painfully over a sentence or two. But when they worked from a photograph that had something to do with their own lives, especially a picture they had taken themselves, they were able to write more — and what they wrote about was their own experiences.
  • Asking them to write about the subject they were going to photograph, then asking them to make a list of images suggested by their writing — this was a way to help them organize their picture-taking before they went out to shoot.
  • These children had never seen each other’s neighborhoods, certainly not each other’s homes or families. They were essentially strangers to each other.
  • When the students brought back pictures of their families and communities, each child tried to explain what was going on in the pictures, and the others eagerly asked questions.
  • teachers rarely come from the same community as their students. Photographs can give them a glimpse into their students’ lives.
  • Photography is perhaps the most democratic visual art of our time. For most of us, picture taking is a part of our family lives. We don’t need a particular talent, like the hand-eye coordination necessary for drawing, to render what we look at. Even children and adults unfamiliar with photography can make photographs of what they see and imagine. For those of us who have used cameras, photography offers a language that can draw on the imagination in a way we may never have thought possible before.
  • Bonnie Blagojevic on 16 Sep 09
     
    Wendy Ewald shares from lessons learned working with children, using photography to express themselves. Lots of interesting ideas.
Bonnie Blagojevic

Teaching like it's 2999 - 6 views

teachinglikeits2999.blogspot.com

blog ipad iPadImplementation elementary

shared by Bonnie Blagojevic on 17 Nov 12 - No Cached
  • Bonnie Blagojevic on 17 Nov 12
     
    Jennie Magiera's keynote session for Advantage 2012 was both inspiring and provocative-exciting! Learn more about the impromptu evening presentation with the Auburn Middle School Student tweeters at the Leveraging Learning iPad Institute in Auburn, ME on her blog, and her ideas and suggestions to move education forward, past integration to redefining the innovative classroom and how she is doing it...
Brooke Newton

Other Web 2.0 tools - TeacherTube - 8 views

I really like this website too. I think that videos are a great way to demonstrate different topics in a memorable way. I have always found videos to be useful to help me to understand different co...

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started by mary corr on 04 Nov 09 1 follow-up, last by Brooke Newton on 04 Nov 09
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