These are my notes from the session ABC’s of Technology Integration: Primary Ideas for Primary Teachers at TCEA 2007.
Michelle Heindrick, the presenter, is a first grade teacher at Lee Elementary School.
Basic computer skills for K-2
Scholastic Keys is a program that overlays MS Word, PowerPoint and Excel. It makes it easier to use for K-2 kids.
Give them a sentence strip with their name is all capital letters and have them type it. Having it in all capital letters help them match the letters on the keyboard and eliminates the need for them to translate lowercase letters of their name into upper case mentally. As students get more familiar with the keyboard they can start to add the step of translation.
Spelling Practice in Word
Students work with a buddy. Teacher creates a table with three columns labeled: 1st try, 2nd try and Correct. One student calls out the spelling words and the other types. The typist can see when they have a word spelled wrong because of the spell check “squiggle” that Word puts under the text. On the third trp they are allowed to right click their incorrect spelling and try to choose the right option from the suggested spellings.
Four columns in a Word document
Column 1 and 3 have words that you type. They have to duplicate the words by typing in column 2 and 4.
PowerPoint Descriptive Writing
Insert clip art in a slide. Have students write a sentence describing the picture.
Modified “Creature Feature”
After reading the book “Creature Feature” the class creates their own version. Students each choose an animal and write their description of the animal. In kindergarten may want to have “reading buddies” do the typing. Kindergarteners can create an illustration in KidPix or other drawing software. Import the illustrations into PowerPoint. Print and bind your own class book.
Spelling refresher or high frequency word practice
Put one word in each slide of a PowerPoint slide show. Adjust the timing for the ability and attention of your students. Put it on continuous loop.
Free K-12 PowerPoint presentations are available from Pete’s PowerPoint Station.
Counting
To practice 1:1 correspondence create a template in KidPix with blocks for each number 1 through 10. Student pick a stamper and put the correct number of stamps in each box for the numeral in the box.
Sorting with Kidspiration
Put words for objects from two categories in the middle of the screen. Put a box and label for each group on the sides. Students are supposed to move the objects to the correct box. Then switch to outline mode and the terms are sorted. Older students then can write a sentence about each item and why it is in that category.
Other suggested Web sites
http://www.lil-fingers.com/
http://www.earobics.com/gamegoo/
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Friday, February 09, 2007
My First TCEA Session
These are my notes from 21st century Projects for 21st Century Learners session at TCEA 2007.
Amy Elliott, the presenter is a tech facilitator for Sherman ISD in Texas.
They initiated technology report cards to help raise the visibility of technology standards to parents and classroom teachers. They have implemented this in primary grades. The report cards are issued twice a year. They include a line for Texas technology standards (TEKS) for the grade and indicate the student’s mastery level for each standard. Presenter said they remind teachers to work on the standards and keep them in the forefront of teachers’ minds. They are stored electronically by each classroom teacher and printed for parents.
Claymation
She uses PowerPoint to create claymation projects with third and fourth graders. They use clay, a digital camera on a tripod, a desk, poster board taped to the wall for a backdrop and PowerPoint. Each PowerPoint slide has one digital picture on it and is displayed in a slideshow for 1 second or less. Students are told their project can portray one object doing one thing (i.e. a snowman melting). She coaches them on making very small changes for each “frame” of the animation.
Recording Audio Books
Older elementary students record narrations of picture books. They are stored electronically for younger students to listen to.
PowerPoint Book walk
Start with a visual image to introduce the book. Then take a picture walk – posing questions about images from the book. i.e. What does this character look like he is feeling?
[Personal note: Be careful copyright laws when using images from any published work.]
Can use this as an introduction to Powerpoint where students view the Powerpoint slide show on their own computer and type answers to questions on slides by moving to edit mode and typing in a text box.
More advanced students can create their own slide. Simplify the process by creating a media kit in a folder. The media kit would include a word document with instructions for the students, documents with key vocabulary words, clip art, video clips, etc.
PreK and Kindergarten Powerpoint
Have NAME typed in a slide, they type their name in place of the text.
To help the students be more independent, add voice instructions to each slide they are supposed to modify. They click on the speaker icon to hear the instructions.
Have them move clip art to show understanding of concepts. i.e. sort the pumpkins from the smallest to the largest. Students show understanding of math concept and also get to practice click and drag.
If you are in a lab setting, when they finish their work in Powerpoint have everyone stand up and rotate to a different computer to see what a classmate has done.
Print handout notes and turn them into a mini book.
Create a "How To" Video using PhotoStory
Students create a rough storyboard on paper or in Powerpoint. Then they take digital pictures on a topic of interest. They import the pictures into PhotoStory 3. They make notes for each image about key ideas they want to describe. Then they record a narration for each image.
Tips: Don’t let them type an entire script or they will read it verbatim and the narration will sound stilted. Remind them to pause for a split second after pressing the record button and for a split second before stopping to avoid truncating the voice track.
I will post a link to the on-line handout when it is available.
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Amy Elliott, the presenter is a tech facilitator for Sherman ISD in Texas.
They initiated technology report cards to help raise the visibility of technology standards to parents and classroom teachers. They have implemented this in primary grades. The report cards are issued twice a year. They include a line for Texas technology standards (TEKS) for the grade and indicate the student’s mastery level for each standard. Presenter said they remind teachers to work on the standards and keep them in the forefront of teachers’ minds. They are stored electronically by each classroom teacher and printed for parents.
Claymation
She uses PowerPoint to create claymation projects with third and fourth graders. They use clay, a digital camera on a tripod, a desk, poster board taped to the wall for a backdrop and PowerPoint. Each PowerPoint slide has one digital picture on it and is displayed in a slideshow for 1 second or less. Students are told their project can portray one object doing one thing (i.e. a snowman melting). She coaches them on making very small changes for each “frame” of the animation.
Recording Audio Books
Older elementary students record narrations of picture books. They are stored electronically for younger students to listen to.
PowerPoint Book walk
Start with a visual image to introduce the book. Then take a picture walk – posing questions about images from the book. i.e. What does this character look like he is feeling?
[Personal note: Be careful copyright laws when using images from any published work.]
Can use this as an introduction to Powerpoint where students view the Powerpoint slide show on their own computer and type answers to questions on slides by moving to edit mode and typing in a text box.
More advanced students can create their own slide. Simplify the process by creating a media kit in a folder. The media kit would include a word document with instructions for the students, documents with key vocabulary words, clip art, video clips, etc.
PreK and Kindergarten Powerpoint
Have NAME typed in a slide, they type their name in place of the text.
To help the students be more independent, add voice instructions to each slide they are supposed to modify. They click on the speaker icon to hear the instructions.
Have them move clip art to show understanding of concepts. i.e. sort the pumpkins from the smallest to the largest. Students show understanding of math concept and also get to practice click and drag.
If you are in a lab setting, when they finish their work in Powerpoint have everyone stand up and rotate to a different computer to see what a classmate has done.
Print handout notes and turn them into a mini book.
Create a "How To" Video using PhotoStory
Students create a rough storyboard on paper or in Powerpoint. Then they take digital pictures on a topic of interest. They import the pictures into PhotoStory 3. They make notes for each image about key ideas they want to describe. Then they record a narration for each image.
Tips: Don’t let them type an entire script or they will read it verbatim and the narration will sound stilted. Remind them to pause for a split second after pressing the record button and for a split second before stopping to avoid truncating the voice track.
I will post a link to the on-line handout when it is available.
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