Melissa's+Wiki

=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

I loved learning about Google Square and Google Wonder Wheel although I could not use the wheel at this time. I used Google Square. I made a chart with all of the authors we learn about in kindergarten. I love how the description on the chart automatically shows you a web site you can link write to. If the author has a personal web page it automatically shows up at the bottom. It was a little tricky to add books, so in some cases I just typed in a book written by that author. I tried to add video in the last column. The Google video search engine brought me to many videos connected to that person. I did not realize that you could do just a video search. I was trying to link the video in the last column but I could not figure it out. This chart could be put on a smartboard notebook which the class could help fill in. Click here to see my Author Square