APeekforaWeekKiwiJrClsrmFALL2010

=CATNIP FAll 2010= =__ A Peek for a Week - Inside a Kiwi Junior Classroom __=

__**Description**____:__ Rachel Boyd’s keynote presentation for the “Week in the Classroom” strand of the K12 Online conference. A peek for a week inside a kiwi junior classroom of 6 year olds. Come and see what we get up to in our classroom learning during a week using a variety of online and web2 tools. Please note that due to this presentation also being visual it is best viewed with audio AND visuals in movie format. **__Presenter:__** Rachel Boyd, Nelson, New Zealand **__Length of Presentation:__** 20:58 **2** CATNIP HOURS __**URL:**__ []

__**Steps for completing the class**__
 * 1) **Register for the class in True North Logic.**
 * 2) **Write down the Essential Questions located below. You will want to refer to these as you are watching the video.**
 * 3) **Watch video presentation at URL listed above.**
 * 4) **Return to this wiki page to answer the Essential Questions and write a Summary**
 * 5) **Adding to this wiki**
 * 6) **Click on the Edit button located on the right - note that an Editor toolbar will appear**
 * 7) **Scroll down to the next empty spot**
 * 8) **Type in your name**
 * 9) **Write a brief answer for each question**
 * 10) **Write a brief summary as to how you might use this new information in your classroom**
 * 11) **When you are done click on Save in the Editor toolbar**

//If you have questions regarding entering information into this Wiki please contact Kim Thomas (kthomas@msd38.org).//


 * Essential Questions:**

Your Name: Victoria Coughlin 1. Get your pencil ready to take notes...this presentation has an incredible list of resources and ideas..... Spelling City and Tutpup are already saved in my bookmarks!

2. What are your thoughts on the paper keyboard activity? Is this something you could do with your students? I already do this and love it! We use the paper keyboard before we go to the computer lab. I have color coded many of the buttons: ctrl-alt-del to unlock, backspace in case of mistakes, enter, and the tab key. Students practice unlocking the computer and typing in their name and password using the tab key in between. I then have these keyboards available in case the students do not remember or need a refresher.

3. Do you have a "walkaway" (one item you can take back to your classroom to use) from this presentation? I would love to have the students read and write online as part of our literacy centers. I am going to look into places we can do this, although I am not exactly sure where to start. Anything that you may want to incorporate into your own classroom? I love the idea of having a place online for the students to write, whether it be about something they did or a place they went or even if they just have a story idea. I would also love get my students using a show and tell wiki since this is something the students love to do but we just do not have the time any more.

Summary (How might you use this new information in your classroom?): Just remembering to incorporate technology for more than just a Waterford and using the “big screen” to view things. Technology is so much more and our students will have to be able to use it. The sooner they start the better! I also want to work on having students create a power point or something similar which shows what they know, which they could present to their parents for April conferences.

Your Name: Amy Bondeson 1. Get your pencil ready to take notes...this presentation has an incredible list of resources and ideas.....

2. What are your thoughts on the paper keyboard activity? Is this something you could do with your students? I thought that the paper keyboard was a good activity to use in the classroom to work on typing skills and keyboard functions- especially in classrooms that do not have enough computers for each student to work. I would be using this activity with the class as a whole to teach them different combinations of keys and what they mean, as well as non-letter keys and how to use them, such as Tab, Backspace, and Delete.

3. Do you have a "walkaway" (one item you can take back to your classroom to use) from this presentation? Anything that you may want to incorporate into your own classroom? As a social studies teacher, the activity that stood out most in my mind was the way the students watched news stories and researched them further using Google and other resources. Not only does this help students to find current events from sources other than print, it allows them to dig deeper into the story and even find information that was not presented in the newscast. This will show them how to digest the news and develop their curiosity about the world around them.

Summary (How might you use this new information in your classroom?): In addition to the paper keyboard and the new way to look at the news, I am also intrigued by the way the teacher in the video incorporated Google Docs into her lesson plans. For my 5th graders, I think it will be helpful for them to use Google Docs in group projects. This will teach them how to work in a group and include technology into that process, giving them a head start for the challenges that lie ahead of them. This video has shown me new and creative ways to teach my students about technology and it's many uses, and I cannot wait to get started with them!

Your Name:Jamie Jay 1. Get your pencil ready to take notes...this presentation has an incredible list of resources and ideas..... a) Classroom Blog - shows learning journey b) Classroom Wiki- Classroom learning hub - every link st. use throughout the day. c) "Interactive Whiteboard" - Links to everything class needs to use throughout the day. (Morning Program?) d) Classroom Jobs- have jobs that see how many people have looked at the blog -- what about privacy issues? -- wallwisher - posts they can put an idea? e) Oral Language Activities - "Class News" --> Email photographs that can be shown on the white board. --> Listening (news form the world - keep politics out?) ?'s that need to be answered. f) Narrative writing - Cooperative writing with another classroom. Groups that write collaboratively. - directions there for writing in. g) Paper keyboards. h) tutput? i) xtranormal? --> Is this a program or a website? j) Class email who check for comments to the class. Visit other schools? - Map comments. k) earth.google.com --> Map skills? j) Digital art -- music too loud to learn the words? - use cameras - cketch using phots taken, cut out pphotos, double check everything, --> huh. Interesting.

2. What are your thoughts on the paper keyboard activity? Is this something you could do with your students? Maybe I'm a too much in the first generation of computer users, but I'm not sure I would use the paper keyboard not unless I had more usage of our classroom computers. I firmly believe in the usage of proper typing skills and with a paper keyboard the students would not be practicing those skills. Also, I have many students who are very visual learners, and if I was to give them a keyboard to pay with it would take their attention away from whatever visual I happened to be using at the time (no matter what type of technology that I used) to help the content be comprehensible.

3. Do you have a "walkaway" (one item you can take back to your classroom to use) from this presentation? Anything that you may want to incorporate into your own classroom? I love the "Read Blogs from Other Schools". This gets students reading work from their own students and hopefully improve their own motivation for reading. It's hard when the only audience is their teacher. On a blog they realize that the world is their audience and are given an extra oomph to want to write better.

Summary (How might you use this new information in your classroom?): This presentation has given me some ideas of how to use the internet effectively in my classroom. Unfortunately, I still have some serious questions. The biggest one is about privacy. How much information is allowed to be given out for each child? I would love to be able to use a lot of these ideas - especially being able to use the interactive white board. I have more computers than she does, but my classroom isn't quite as cut up as hers is. It seems like if I'm going to really use the computers that I need to set up a centers time for them to be used. I'll need some serious think-time before I am ready to really introduce the students to computers being a regular part of our classroom time.

Your Name: Bonnie McCarthy 1. Get your pencil ready to take notes...this presentation has an incredible list of resources and ideas..... class blogs, email pictures to class from weekend activities, tutpup.com, spelling city.com, digital art, practice typing skills

2. What are your thoughts on the paper keyboard activity? Is this something you could do with your students? I like the paper keyboard activity. It's a nice strategy to teach all students at one time and allow them to practice pushing the buttons they will need to use. It also allows me to monitor if they have achieved keyboarding skills. Kindergartners will benefit greatly from this activity because many of them have had limited experience with computers and keyboards.

3. Do you have a "walkaway" (one item you can take back to your classroom to use) from this presentation? Anything that you may want to incorporate into your own classroom? There are many ways to use computers and websites in the classroom. I want to incorporate daily news in the classroom. It keeps the students current on local and global news events as well as helping them learn to dissect information into who, what, where, why, and when.

Summary (How might you use this new information in your classroom?): I am so excited to learn to use blogs, class wikis, email, websites, and computer skills within the daily curriculum. With some practice even the youngest of students can begin to interact with other classrooms and each other on the computer. With guided practice, the entire class can increase the connection with the global and local community.

Your Name: Teresa Belnap 1. Get your pencil ready to take notes...this presentation has an incredible list of resources and ideas..... First - who takes notes with pencil paper anymore? open a new window, have them side by side, and type your notes! Email pictures to go along with student sharing, listening to and responding to current events, plotting locations of events or interactions with other schools on a map and then using google earth to visit, movie making, digi art ....

2. What are your thoughts on the paper keyboard activity? Is this something you could do with your students? Love the idea and am already using it (thanks Kim). This can be sued to practice student logins, as well as general typing skills. This is great to introduce new things with and be able to observe students while they learn.

3. Do you have a "walkaway" (one item you can take back to your classroom to use) from this presentation? Anything that you may want to incorporate into your own classroom? Looking forward to November CATNIP class on Blogs and Wikis! Using the SmartBoard more frequently with small groups of students for online learning activities and local/world news.

Summary (How might you use this new information in your classroom?): Having photos emailed in for students to use while sharing news. The photos will help my ELD students by allowing me to see what they are talking about, so if they struggle for the language I already can see what it is and can support the verbal language.

Julie Bradford

 1. Get your pencil ready to take notes...this presentation has an incredible list of resources and ideas..... ** Class Blog ** ** Classroom Wiki “Classroom Learning Hub” ** ** Interactive Whiteboard Homepage ** ** Classroom Job – Head Counter on the Classroom Blog page ** ** Wall Wisher Page to determine what goes on the Classroom Blog next ** ** E-mail photos of a fun weekend ** ** Google Docs to collaborate with another school in narrative writing ** ** Watching a “Wiggles” video to get their brains moving ** ** Delicious bookmarking ** ** Xtranormal video making site **

2. What are your thoughts on the paper keyboard activity? Is this something you could do with your students? ** I really think the keyboard activity is a great idea! It can be difficult for students to learn strictly keyboarding skills. However, when presented in this manner, the students are not only able to brainstorm writing, but to practice keyboarding as well. I think I could incorporate a paper keyboard in my classroom in a small group format. Hopefully, by starting off in a small group, the students would become familiar enough with the concept that we may be able to do it as a whole group lesson. **

 3. Do you have a "walkaway" (one item you can take back to your classroom to use) from this presentation? Anything that you may want to incorporate into your own classroom? ** I would like to try the website “SpellingCity.com.” Students enjoy playing games on the computer. It would be great if I could incorporate their sight words while they played computer games. **

 Summary (How might you use this new information in your classroom?): ** I would like to use more technology in my classroom. The students truly seem to love it. Additionally, it is simple to incorporate what the students are learning electronically by utilizing educational resources such as “SpellingCity” and “Xtranormal.” **

Your Name: **Katie O'Neill** 1. Get your pencil ready to take notes...this presentation has an incredible list of resources and ideas..... **I love WORDLE! This is something I am already using in my classroom. At the beginning of the school year I had my students create poems about themselves using wordle. It was an awesome 'get to know you' activity.**

2. What are your thoughts on the paper keyboard activity? Is this something you could do with your students? **I was fascinating by the paper keyboard! I would love to get myself a set so that my students could actually learn how to type :-)**

3. Do you have a "walkaway" (one item you can take back to your classroom to use) from this presentation? Anything that you may want to incorporate into your own classroom? **As I stated before, I really enjoyed the information I received regarding wordle. I now have a plethora of idea of how I can incorporate this website**. **For example, I think that I will have my students create a wordle based on whatever god or goddess they are studying during our Greek mythology unit.**

Summary (How might you use this new information in your classroom?): **My hope and dream is that all of my students will feel success when working with wordle. I think this is a fun and engaging way to edit papers for way to many words being used in a nonthreatening and fun way (plus it makes a pretty picture!).**

Jenny Davey: 1. Get your pencil ready to take notes...this presentation has an incredible list of resources and ideas...

Woo whooo!!!!! I couldn’t type fast enough. Had to put my “notes” page side-by-side with the presentation and pause frequently to get it all. Wow. Loved her use of a wiki as a “learning hub” where students access links to engage with during the day. I have been told we can do something similar with our class web page; need to get more info from our MICE.

2. What are your thoughts on the paper keyboard activity? Is this something you could do with your students?

Given that muscle memory is so powerful, providing the time for our students to practice keyboarding using the paper keyboard would be a great start to help them feel successful when they begin using a physical keyboard. I would absolutely use it in my classroom!

3. Do you have a "walkaway" (one item you can take back to your classroom to use) from this presentation? Anything that you may want to incorporate into your own classroom?

Do we only get to pick ONE?!? Sorry. Cannot pick ONE – many, yes, but one? I will add my top choice here; see below for additional. I will follow up with the MICE to have a permanent link added to my desktop so students can access the links from one central location. The class website doesn’t appear to be the best format (text only) – with Kindergarten it would be necessary to have something pictorial, i.e. the class learning hub wiki or the interactive whiteboard homepage. Need to find out if these are also possible in lieu of the link to the class web page...

Summary (How might you use this new information in your classroom?):

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">I have looked at a few interactive calendar/morning meeting documents to use on the SMARTboard, but haven’t yet found one that really fits our needs. I will keep looking and would love to incorporate it into our daily routine. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Love the idea of giving students the job of reading and responding to email for the blog using the SMARTboard. Her classroom was so well organized, with routines that shifted the responsibility for content from the teacher to the students. Love it! <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Here are the resources listed at the end of the prezi: <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Extranormal <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Google earth <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Prezi <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> Animoto <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Blogger <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Wikispaces <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Online news videos (local and international news sites) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Delicious <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Wallwisher <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Google docs <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Spelling City <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Tut pup <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">You tube <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Gmail <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; line-height: 19pt;">Freeplaymusic.com

Your Name: Katie Newton

1. Get your pencil ready to take notes...this presentation has an incredible list of resources and ideas..... I had my fingers typing away as I was watching/listening! What great ideas!

2. What are your thoughts on the paper keyboard activity? Is this something you could do with your students? I could certainly do this with my students. I like them to have the authentic experience of using an actual keyboard, which is what I use primarily in the classroom, but I like the idea that the students could gain familiarity with the keys on the paper keyboard first or to reinforce location of keys students seem to "forget."

3. Do you have a "walkaway" (one item you can take back to your classroom to use) from this presentation? Anything that you may want to incorporate into your own classroom?
 * Emailing in photos of what children have been doing over the weekend/on vacations - I think this is an excellent tool that I could incorporate into the classroom, and would also be a great way to expand our "star student" of the week. Each week, the "star student" could email in photos they want to share with the class, and could then discuss them in a "show and tell" type way on Fridays of their star student week.

Summary (How might you use this new information in your classroom?):
 * Google docs to share stories - I'm not sure that I would use google docs for students to collaboratively write, but I would use them to share documents with our pen pals in Chicago. This would be a fast and easy way for us to share information on a more regular basis.
 * Wallwisher - I would like to use the wallwisher idea for parents in my classroom, if they would like to add an idea/comment for anything they would like to see on the classroom webpage.
 * Tutpup - this would be a really great idea for my students, especially those that need a challenge and ones who love to compete!

Your Name: 1. Get your pencil ready to take notes...this presentation has an incredible list of resources and ideas.....

2. What are your thoughts on the paper keyboard activity? Is this something you could do with your students?

3. Do you have a "walkaway" (one item you can take back to your classroom to use) from this presentation? Anything that you may want to incorporate into your own classroom?

Summary (How might you use this new information in your classroom?):