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Every Fall I try to pick one or two new tools to pilot with teachers and students. Last year was the Year of Sketchup and Voicethread, which we successfully used with students in a number of grade levels. The year before that we experimented with Edublogs and Garageband for the very first time, and both [...]

Today my colleagues and I spent the day at The Nueva School in Hillsborough, CA. We were hosted by Matt Levinson, the Head of Middle School, and were there with the intention of hearing about their brand-new 1:1 laptop program in grades 6-8.The Nueva School is a 40-year old K-8 school located in Hillsborough, CA [...]

I’ve been very anxious to begin playing with the new educational version of Voicethread, and I finally found a willing set of guinea pigs in our 2nd Grade Team. If all goes according to plan, we should begin recording student voices later this week. For $10, it has been relatively easy to set up an [...]

2nd Graders using 3-D modeling software? No way! See for yourselves…here is a little project our very own 2nd Graders have been working on.  To quote one student, “Now I like going to the Computer Lab even more than lunch!!”
 Click here to see the projects.

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 Here’s a link to another terrific presentation from the K12 Online Conference, given by John Pearce of Geelong, Victoria, Australia:

http://k12online.wm.edu/its_elementary/player.html

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In January 2006, I wrote a post entitled “The Demise of the Computer Teacher,” wondering aloud about whether the entire format of the tech coordinator’s job should change. Almost 2 years later, the MCDS Kindergarten team and I are piloting a new model for Computer Lab this Fall, in which I go to the Kindergarten [...]

I recently presented a session at the CAIS (California Association of Independent Schools) Northern Regional Meeting in Atherton, CA. The session was entitled “Hello World! Blogging and Podcasting in the Elementary Classroom.”
If you attended today’s session, please be sure to leave a comment letting us all know how you’re intending to use blogs & podcasts [...]

One of the websites I love using most with my Lower School students is Starfall, a reading & phonics website for small children. Here’s a link to a c/net article about why I love it so much!

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I just downloaded the demo of this plugin and here are the results — yet another cool way to publish/document student and classroom work!

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One of the things I love most about working with 1st Graders is watching them morph from pre-readers into confident readers and writers. It is always so much fun trying to decipher words when they write stories using “best guess” or invented spelling.
In honor of Halloween, I asked the 1st graders to write & illustrate [...]

I posed the following question to my colleagues on the BAISNet listserv yesterday:

Hi All,
I thought I would utilize your collective expertise once again! What are your current favorite software applications for wysiwyg webpage creation? I’ve lately been working with websites that have built-in web-based page editing, so I feel a bit out of touch. When [...]

My tech department colleague and one of our 4th grade teachers took the “blog as final project publishing tool” model one step further this week. Using the identical setup to the one I used for the audiobooks and the duck blog, these wonderful teachers have created a repository for all of the 4th grade student [...]

Who’s brilliant idea was it to try to upload 56 1st graders’ stories as podcasts before the end of school?! Oh yeah…mine… I’ve been trying to wrestle with a combination of Audacity, GarageBand, archive.org and edublogs to make the whole thing work for free (excluding the price of GarageBand and my time…)
To give [...]

Over Spring Break, our Director of Facilities discovered that a neighborhood duck had decided to build her nest right under the Middle School play structure. Being the tech-savvy school that we are, of course, we had to create a blog for our own feathered mom-to-be. I used the comments section of the first post to [...]

Each Spring, the MCDS 1st Graders host the First Grade Library as a culminating project to celebrate their collective growth as readers and writers. Students hand write a series of stories, edit the stories, type them into a PowerPoint template I’ve created for the project, print the stories out, illustrate each page and bind them. [...]

Today I got one of our second grade classes set up on learnerblogs.org! The teacher plans to pose a weekly question and each of the kids will post their responses. They did a great job for the first time out, and when I just checked my email this evening, 2 of the parents had left [...]

This coming Wednesday, Debra Jarjoura and I will be giving a presentation to the MCDS Lower School faculty about how to use technology to document classroom activities and to create simple student portfolios. Debra, a preschool teacher at The Phillips Brooks School and a true Reggio Emilia aficionado, would definitely not describe herself as a [...]

A Lower School Technology Coordinator at a K-8 school recently posted a question to BAISNet, wondering whether other independent schools still schedule regular weekly computer lab classes for K-4, or whether we are moving toward a model based on individual teacher signups as classroom projects and needs arise.
For a long time, I’ve been arguing that [...]

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