WRITE TRAITS TECH INTEGRATION K-1January 17th 2011

ORGANIZATION,VOICE-KIDSPIRATION

Kidspiration allows students to visually explore and organize their thoughts. “Research shows that visual learning is one of

the best methods for teaching thinking skills. Visual learning techniques - graphical ways of working with ideas and presenting information - teach students to clarify their thinking and to process, organize and prioritize new information. ”

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You can use simple pictures with words to create a graphic of their writing. Or, you can have a template created for them.

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Within the Writing view they can hear the words that they are putting down.

KIDPIX With Kidpix you can create a story such as writing about a butterfly and illustrate it using the drawing tools and text tool. Then they create a presentation with the slide tool.

GREAT WEB RESOURCES

Visions in all elementary Computer Labs Youtube Videos Story Bird- Story Bird uses art to inspire the

student to write. They have beautiful pictures that and a template to create their own story.

Create a Newspaper Article with a newspaper generator.

Read Write Think provides online templates and lessons for students and teachers to use.

http://www.internet4classrooms.com/index.htm is a list of sites that provide specific help with writing conventions and lessons

Sheppard Software provides specific skill games for students

BLABBERIZE AND PODCASTING

Let’s Talk Turkey Integration Project at http://techintegrate-lizzyliz.blogspot.com

Blabberize

VISIONS LAB SOFTWARE

Send out files to all computers Virtual Teacher on all computers in lab Send out web addresses to all computers Monitor all computers Remote into the computer to help students

with problems. Also use Classroom “EYE” to lock student

workstations.

YOUTUBE AND EDUCATIONAL VIDEO LIBRARY

Acquire the web address of the Youtube video(from home).

Login into Eduphoria: HelpDesk and click Educational Video Library

Enter the web address(url) and submit. You will receive a message from Eduphoria

stating that your request has been approved or not approved.