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Contents contributed and discussions participated by Karen Kohn

Karen Kohn

Miss Night's Marbles: I heard them say, love is the way - 0 views

  • a virtual exchange between our class, and a partner class overseas. For my 20 Canadian munchkins, we found a partner group in East Borneo, Indonesia. Both classes have created an imaginary friend, who attends our partner school. (For the curious, our imaginary friend is a little girl named Ella. She is 6 years old, she has blond hair, brown eyes, and brown skin. Her gender and name were decided by vote. Her age and appearance were drawn at random.) We use Twitter to ask research questions of our partners, and the answers allow us to write stories documenting our imaginary friend's experience in another country. Each child has a journal for the project, where they record things they have learned. It being kindergarten, the recording mostly takes the form of drawings. The children dictate text to go with their drawings, and then copy that text onto their pages. We are working on a Prezi presentation to share our learning with parents and other classes. We have made a video to teach our "Indonesia friends" about snow and how to get dressed for recess when it is very cold. When my team conceived of this project, I knew it was going to be cool. As mentioned in my previous post about Twitter in kindergarten, I love love LOVE that my students are building real connections with other children their own age. This project brought it to another level, by pushing them to imagine themselves in a completely different setting. (As we graph the often FIFTY degree difference in our daily temperatures, I often imagine MYSELF in a completely different setting, too!) I knew that this project was going to take us in unexpected directions, and there is no doubt that it has.
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    This is a great example of why Social Networking in the classroom works. Please visit this blog post. Miss Night, along with her fellow Kindergarten teachers in her school in Canada use social networking to communicate with another class in Indonesia. Night has come up with many lessons using the information the students gathered from their friends in Indonesia. Her students have learned so much from this contact and have even surprised her with some of their comments and questions. This has given me so many ideas! READ THE POST.
Karen Kohn

How to Use Social-Networking Technology for Learning | Edutopia - 0 views

  • How do you keep students from wasting time chatting or sneaking to inappropriate sites? You teach! You have frank discussions. You show them examples and ask them to make ethical decisions. You ask: What does it mean that fifteen-year-old kids are calling themselves nineteen and posting racy pictures online? What does it mean that college kids are posting raunchy spring break pictures that a prospective employer can find? The idea that we are the stories we tell has never been more important. Schools have always taught kids how to present themselves -- that's why we did oral presentations in the classroom. Now we need to teach them to present themselves electronically. That's why it's so scary to lock these technologies out.
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    Answers a question I'm sure is on every teacher's mind when thinking about incorporating social networking into the classroom. Teachers need to teach students how to act, write, speak, and present themselves.
Karen Kohn

Social Networking in Schools: Incentives for Participation -- THE Journal - 3 views

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    How social networking is beneficial to schools. Research shows students use social networking to talk about school work.
Lesley Maurer

50 Free Collaboration Tools That Are Awesome for Education - 9 views

started by Lesley Maurer on 07 Jul 11 no follow-up yet
  • Karen Kohn
     
    Wow! I had no idea there were so many tools out there. This is a great resource. Definitely bookmarking this one!
Lesley Maurer

10 Google Forms for the Classroom - 8 views

started by Lesley Maurer on 07 Jul 11 no follow-up yet
  • Karen Kohn
     
    Lesley, Thanks for the ready to use forms. I particularly like the Get to Know Your Class form and the Prior Learning Assessment form. I think I will be able to apply these two to my future art classes.
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