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3 Blog Sites 1. [] This website is a place where you can create a blog account for your entire class. You are able to monitor and review all the blogs and ensure your students are staying on task and posting appropriately. You have control of the student blogs and accounts. This website is free and it remains private so only students and teachers can view them. I want to explore this site further to see how I could best use it in my classroom. 2.[| http://www.iteachkinderkids.blogspot.com] This blog is written by a teacher who teaches Kindergarten. I am interested in this blog because she creates some interactive activities that other teachers can join. Before Christmas break she posted that Miss Bindergarten was missing and she needed help to find her. Other teachers were able to post their pictures of Miss Bindergarten at their school. I really think that my students would be very engaged and excited to help in the hunt for Miss Bindergarten. There are different themes you can choose from and ideas, activities, and crafts for those themes are provided. The blog also has reproducible flash cards, worksheets, and coloring pages that can be printed off. I will be following and exploring this blog for ideas I can incorporate into my classroom. 3. []This blog is written by a teacher who teaches first grade. She has a lot of great videos on her blog that her class has created. The students have created a video about the different rituals they have at home and school. I could see myself sharing the different videos with my students and then we could create our own videos. The blog also contains different problems for students to figure out and they need to post how they were able to solve the problems. I think it would be a great way to communicate with another class and share different problems for them to solve as well.

[|http://larremoreteachertips.blogspot.com/]Chalk Talk~A Blog for Kindergarten Teachers

3 Technology Lesson Plans 1. [|Colorful Caterpillars] This lesson plan is a good way to introduce primary students to Kid Pix. The students are shown how to use the toolbar in order to create a caterpillar. The lesson breaks it down step by step and the students follow along doing the same thing on their computer. When I use it in my classroom, I will use it after I have read The Very Hungry Caterpillar. Once the students have created the caterpillar, I would show them how to use the stamper to find some of the food that The Very Hungry Caterpillar ate. 2. [|Alphabetic Principles Practice] This lesson plan introduces students to using Kidspiration. I think this lesson plan is beneficial because it has students practicing and demonstrating an understanding of letters and letter sounds. Each student or pair of students is given a letter and needs to create a Kidspiration story based on that letter. When the students are done creating their story they share it with the class. 3. [|All About Butterflies] This lesson plan teaches the Life Cycle of a Butterfly. The students start out learning about the stages of the life cycle and hand signs to go with each stage. After discussing the life cycle, the students create their own butterfly. The students need to include the life cycle on their butterfly. As an assessment piece, in order to demonstrate their understanding of the life cycle, students need to use Kidspiration to put the stages of the life cycle in the correct order. I like this lesson plan because it incorporates movement, art, and technology.

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Web 2.0 []This website allows you to place text in a text box and when you click create, it makes a word poem for you using all of the text you placed in the box. You can change how the text looks and how it is placed on the page. This website also has a gallery where you can view posted word poems that other people have created. I think it is a great interactive website for people of all ages.

[|www.]**[|pixton]**[|.com/] A great site to create and share comic strips.

[] Create and share cartoon strips.

[] Ebooks for kids.

[|www.]**[|glogster]**[|.com/] Create and share posters.

[|www.animato.com] Upload pictures, site will create transitions and you can add music.

[|www.talkingpets.org] Select a pet and type in text, the pet will read it to you. You can change the voices and add a variety of accessories to your pet. You can upload pictures of your own pet as well.

Educational Game or Tool [] The PBS Kids website has a variety of educational games for students to play. The nice thing about the website is that the games contain characters students know because they have seen them on television. The website also contains coloring pages and cards that can be printed out. I really like the how-to videos on Mr. Rogers site. []On this website students can create their own story. Students can type in their story and create pictures to go along with their story. The site offers a couple options for how you would like to create your story. I think this site could be used by students of all ages because the complexity can be adapted. I think even my 5 year old students would be able to create a story of their own. (It just might take awhile) [|www.]**[|spellingcity]**[|.com/] Insert spelling list words and practice them with different games and tests.