The first week of school, or more accurately the first actual 7 days of school, will therefore be a great chance to integrate tech into my classroom and get my students ready to participate in the Global Read Aloud.
So what will we do?
- Using Skype, parents will be invited to call us in the classroom at the end of the day so we can share what we have been doing.
- Using Wordle, students will think of adjectives to describe themselves and parents' adjectives will be added as a surprise. These print-outs will go in lockers.
- Voki will be used to create book hooks describing one cool book they read over the summer.
- We will write a letter to ourselves about our expectations for the year using Future Me. We will plan to receive them back the last week of school.
- Wallwisher will be used and shared with parents to showcase something we learned in class.
- We will blog about something we hope to learn and post in our kid blog.
- Voki will also be used to introduce another classmate to the class.
- We will use Google Earth to look up participants in the Global Read Aloud and then do pins on a world map in the classroom.
- Digital Cameras will be introduced by having them go on a scavenger hunt in my room and having to photograph the "treasures" - these will be posted on VoiceThread as a guide to our classroom for parents to see.
- We will use Animoto to come up with our hopes and wishes for the year letting each child add a picture and a sentence.
- Wordia will be used when students have to come up with the definition of student, classroom, community, teacher, and school. We will tape and post our own definitions.
How will you integrate technology into your classroom? How do we get the kids excited about using it and how do you make it purposeful and not just technology for technology's sake?
