Melissa+C.

=Melissa's Wiki= Hi my name is Melissa Clancy and I presently teach kindergarten at the Bates Elementary school in Wellesley. I have been teaching at Bates for the last 12 years. I am excited about taking this class especially learning different technology tools I can use in my classroom. This year I created a classroom blog and just love it!!! I find it a simple way to communicate with parents and students. I have created a teacher blog too. I am amazed at all the resources I have found from other classroom blogs. I am interested to see what I can do with Wiki's with young children. I am not even sure what a Wiki is. I do use technology on a regular basis in my classroom. I have a smart board in my class and an Elmo. I am also taking a smart board course this summer too. I am taking this course for credit. On a personal note..I live in Medfield. I have twin boys age 3 Owen and Finn. My days are very busy keeping my boys out of trouble. I am enjoying trips to the beach, going to the gym and reading books. I hope everyone had a happy fourth! Melissa

Assignment 2

I decided to use Google Squared for my class project. I made a chart that contains a few of the authors we learn about in kindergarten. In the description part of the chart it automatically links a web page if the author has one. It didn't automatically fill in the information about books, but I could easily type it in. I think it would be easy to make a Smartboard notebook with this chart and have my students fill in missing parts. The last column has a place to put videos about the author. I couldn't figure out how to link some of the videos in that space. Creating this chart was so easy to do! I learned a lot about the different ways you can use Google. []

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media type="custom" key="10007539" This google map is the school in which I teach. Working with young children we explore the neighborhood.

Assignment #4 In my classroom I love creating projects using VoiceThread. If you are a teacher you are able to create 3 threads at a time free. You can upload pictures and record voices. For this project, my Kindergarten class had been learning about Mexico. During large group time, we created a list of things we learned about Mexico. Each child was assigned a page to illustrate and read about it on the final project. Some other things I have create using this site...creating a big book that the children sing, make an alphabet book with each child creating a page, document a field trip and have the kids go back and talk about what is happening, all about books. Click below to see the final piece. media type="custom" key="10077273"

media type="custom" key="10091953" I made a Wordle with all of the students in my class name. This was so easy to do and embed! I just have to figure out how to make it bigger.

I loved this site...AMAZING!! The following three sites were great **KerPoof**, **Fotobabble** and **Into the Book** KerPoof...this was a free site for teachers to join. I loved Super Doodle, it was similar to Kid Pix but easier to follow. It was simple to save the document in a jpg. This site also had Spell A Picture. Spell a picture allows you to type a word and on the screen and different images show up. The child would then have to select the image. This site also had a section for teachers and PDF documents to give you information on how you could use the different programs.
 * Fotobabble**...this site is free. You take a picture and you can record your words to the picture. It was simple to upload and record. The only thing I didn't love was the look of the template. I didn't realize your username would be on the picture too. If I was going to use this for my classroom I would have used KC Kindergarten...rather then my first name. It would be great to have the kids record what is taking place in a photo and post on the class web page. It appeared to be easy to link your final projects. I would love to use this during science experiments.

The last site I loved was called **Into The Book**, this was an excellent resource for reading comprehension. This site offered lessons, discussions and videos focusing on Prior Knowledge, Questioning, Visualizing, Synthesizing, Summarizing, Predicting, and evaluating. I will definitely use this site to look up lessons for my classroom.