Mrs. Boone's Class

"ABCD" The most popular kids song ever (Vol.1) www.TOONBO.com

claudia.boone@gmail.com (Boone) — Mon, 15 Nov 2010 12:02:00 -0800

ABC Song

claudia.boone@gmail.com (Boone) — Mon, 15 Nov 2010 11:58:00 -0800

Tool # 11 - Final Post

claudia.boone@gmail.com (Boone) — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 14:45:00 -0700

For your final 11 Tools post, answer these questions:

1. What are your favorite tools you now have in your personal technology toolbox? Briefly describe a particular activity that you will plan for your students using at least one of these new tools.

I really enjoy working with Photo Story 3 - I am planning in use each student’s voice on their Storytelling Project - they will tell me the story, illustrated, I will add everything in Photo Story 3 and add their voice telling the story to their friends.

2. How have you transfomed your thinking about the learning that will take place in your classroom?

I was a little skeptical about working with I-touches’ with my Pre-kinder students. After watching and going through all my training I found that they will not just love it but also learn so much with all the apps that is going to be available for them.

3. Were there any unexpected outcomes from this program that surprised you?

Just the idea that my Pre-kinder students are going to be able to have great and upgraded technology in their hands is amazing!

I had fun doing this training!!

Tool # 11

claudia.boone@gmail.com (Boone) — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 11:47:00 -0700

Digital Citizenship:

To make our 4 year old students great digital citizens I will need to model, model, and model!!!
They will need to care for all equipments and materials. This is going to be the first lesson and a very important one! Almost of my students never been around or touch a computer. I will need to create easy and engaging lessons to keep their interest. They will need to understand that the I-touch and notebooks are not toys and that they are not going to be playing on it but working/learning on it! They will need to understand that all materials are expensive and belong to the school. Pre-kinder students are going to have specifice websites and specifics games to work and they are not going to be aloud to go in any website without permission. Basic first - with adult supervision!

Tool # 10

claudia.boone@gmail.com (Boone) — Sat, 7 Aug 2010 20:45:00 -0700

Everybody has one! :)

This year is going to be great... The possibility of having all this technology available to all students is amazing! The apps are challenging for all ages. They have games that teach and this is what I like. The students are going to think that they are playing but in reality they are learning. I always tried to make technology fun in my classroom but now is it going to be easy!

It all there...they just need to touch!

Tool # 9

claudia.boone@gmail.com (Boone) — Sun, 1 Aug 2010 23:25:00 -0700

I have been working with SKYPE for a long time. This is the way I talk with my friends and family in Brazil. It is a very easy tool to download and use - you just need a camera and microphone.

This is a tool that can be used between teachers around the district and also having a camera is a great tool to share projects from one classroom to another.

Tool # 8

claudia.boone@gmail.com (Boone) — Sun, 1 Aug 2010 14:16:00 -0700

Tool # 7

claudia.boone@gmail.com (Boone) — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 16:14:00 -0700

My video...

This tool will be great for my storytelling project!!! I can see my students adding their pictures and voices! It is going to be awesome! I can also make movies with fieldtrips pictures and each student can add their on voice to each picture telling what happened...It is going to add so much fun to my lessons! I can use pictures from each student on my science lessons and let them add to each picture what they learned...I can hardly wait!

Tool # 6

claudia.boone@gmail.com (Boone) — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 12:03:00 -0700

WIKI:

Very interesting...It can help me be very organized. Just the thought of fewer emails to communicate my ideas...this is great! ...I just need creativity!!

This tool is great to work with parents to ask for help in activities in my classroom like fieldtrips, book fares, parties, and etc. I can create a list and parents can add to the list or change it.

I will use this tool with parents and co-workers. I did not see yet the use for pre-k students.

GREAT WAY TO SHARE THE INFORMATION ABOUT BLOGS WITH YOUR STUDENT!!

claudia.boone@gmail.com (Boone) — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 09:07:00 -0700

http://www.brainpop.com/english/writing/blogs/

Enjoy!!!

Tool # 5

claudia.boone@gmail.com (Boone) — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 09:00:00 -0700

My links and tags:

My account with "Delicious" is http://delicious.com/boonebear

I used tags like: activities, art, blog, books, children, cloud, coloring, crafts, creation, downloads, education, family, free, Isabella, photos, and school.

http://printables4kids.com/ (Education)

http://www.eslkidslab.com/index.html (Education)

http://www.dadsclub-swimteam.com/ (My daughter)
http://www.raz-kids.com/ (Education)

http://bighugelabs.com/mosaic.php (Photos)

http://www.wordle.net/ (Creations)

This is a great idea…be able to add all my favorite websites in one document! Now I can get all my links in any computer, anywhere in the world (http://delicious.com/)! This is a great tool to share my ideas with friends and family. The possibility of sharing just a paragraph from a website and be able to add notes is amazing (http://www.diigo.com/)! I am glad that now I know all this information! My life is going to be much easier!

Las Aguilas - motivacion

claudia.boone@gmail.com (Boone) — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 07:36:00 -0700

Tool # 4

claudia.boone@gmail.com (Boone) — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 20:36:00 -0700

I've shared Beginner of the Year

Message from claudia.boone@gmail.com: Click to open:

Please read the notes and add comments! Thank you! Claudia

Beginner of the Year

Google Docs:

For the higher grades students are going to be able to participate with one assessment. They can learn all time of the day. Students can talk with other friends and work in any assessment in their on house. This will help teachers and students in so many way…and students really enjoy staying at the computer. Students can work in their writing process in one document. They are applying the teachers thinking with their one thinking, allowed students to publish their one work. I really enjoyed the possibility for the students to work together with friends and teachers.

The level off their work is going to be high because they will know that a lot of people are able to read their work. Google Docs is a great tool for teachers to talk with each other around the school without need to meet. The collaboration between teachers working with Google Doc is great. Lessons are more interactive.

Google Readers:
I can read new content from your favorite’s website. It will be efficient to read and easy to share with friends and coworkers! You can always keep up with new information without going to each website, you just need to go into your Google Reader and check all your favorite sites and new information. Great tool!

Tool # 3

claudia.boone@gmail.com (Boone) — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 23:23:00 -0700

I made a word cloud at http://www.wordle.net/

All about ME and my FAMILY!

Made a movie from my trip to Brazil. Check it out!!!

If you like to make a video like this one...go to:
http://animoto.com/?ref=lpzdhixo
Have fun!!!

Tool # 2

claudia.boone@gmail.com (Boone) — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 20:51:00 -0700

I am very excited with this new information. I love to learn new things and the idea to be able to share my thoughts with all my friends and parents are great.

I will be able to tell everyone what my classroom is work on and give the opportunity to my students to share their learning with their family. We can use so many different ways to communicate what we are doing in the classroom: videos, books, songs, pictures, etc.

Children with any age love to see themselves on TV or computer and with a classroom blog they are going to be able to show themselves to their family and friends. Children are going to be able to listen to their favorite sounds and read their favorite books on their classroom blog and this is a great thing to a first year of experience in a school environment. We are in a new era and we need to change our ways…we learned differently and now this is the way to teach! What do you think?

---Reading around---

Good Blogs that I comment on:

1 - I also liked the post from “Problogger.net” he has great ideas to start a good blog and it was interesting to read the 23 questions that he give you to see if a blog is the right thing for you...
http://www.problogger.net/archives/2006/02/14/is-a-blog-right-for-you/
And also: http://www.problogger.net/archives/2006/02/14/blogging-for-beginners-2/
Ideas for a beginner blogger...

2 - Mrs. Lapointe's First Grade

3 - Technology in the Bilingual Classroom

4 - Hammer's PK

5 -

Tool # 1

claudia.boone@gmail.com (Boone) — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 16:06:00 -0700

Today I am starting my blog and still waiting for my autorization to start. I am having a lot of fun!

I love my avatar!!! rsrs!!

claudia.boone@gmail.com (Boone) — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 09:56:00 -0700

Dear Parents,

It is with great pleasure to welcome you and your wonderful children to an exciting year in Prekindergarten at The Bear Blvd. School for Early Learning! As they begin on this new journey in school, each child will encounter a happy learning environment designed to foster a love of learning through creativity, exploration and purposeful play.

Thank you for your cooperation in working together to make our children’s year in prekindergarten a wonderful beginning to their learning
experience!

Sincerely,

Mrs. Boone