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Communication Tech in the Elementary Classroom: Using Music and Sound Effects in Class Projects
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Communication Tech in the Elementary Classroom. Thursday, April 23, 2009. Using Music and Sound Effects in Class Projects. Mean that no additional music will enter the public domain until 2019. You or your students just have to make the recording. It could be a great project for you to coordinate with a music teacher! When I record my class' podcast. I use Apple's Garage Band. A few sources of free music are:. Has a large library of music by composer Kevin MacLeod. Him for the music that you use. Learnin...
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Communication Tech in the Elementary Classroom: Using Text as Artwork: Wordle and TYPEDRAWiNG
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Communication Tech in the Elementary Classroom. Thursday, May 28, 2009. Using Text as Artwork: Wordle and TYPEDRAWiNG. Recently, I read a blog post by Terry Freedman called "Five Reasons to use Wordle in the Classroom.". It gave some good ideas for ways to use this application to represent text graphically. Wordle. Today I was browing the iPhone app store (a guilty pleasure) and came upon another application called TYPEDRAWiNG. All in all, though, the thing that I like about both of these applications is...
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Communication Tech in the Elementary Classroom: March 2009
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Communication Tech in the Elementary Classroom. Thursday, March 26, 2009. Creating a Purpose for the Project. It can be easy for some teachers to view the integration of technology into their classrooms as an "add on" or a fad. After all, can the reality live up to the hype? Wednesday, March 25, 2009. Let me take a moment in this, my first blog post, to introduce myself and set a course for this blog. I am currently a fourth grade teacher in Watertown, Massachusetts. I've been teaching in this gr...Each ...
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Communication Tech in the Elementary Classroom: May 2009
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Communication Tech in the Elementary Classroom. Thursday, May 28, 2009. Using Text as Artwork: Wordle and TYPEDRAWiNG. Recently, I read a blog post by Terry Freedman called "Five Reasons to use Wordle in the Classroom.". It gave some good ideas for ways to use this application to represent text graphically. Wordle. Today I was browing the iPhone app store (a guilty pleasure) and came upon another application called TYPEDRAWiNG. All in all, though, the thing that I like about both of these applications is...
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Communication Tech in the Elementary Classroom: Elementary Podcasting
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Communication Tech in the Elementary Classroom. Tuesday, April 14, 2009. For the past year and a half, I have had my students produce a weekly podcast. There are many ways that students and teachers could use podcasting: reporting news, reading works they have written, sharing research results or opinion pieces, interviewing community members, and more. I'd love to hear other suggested purposes. There are a lot of great examples of podcasting in the elementary classroom (besides my class, of course!
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Communication Tech in the Elementary Classroom: Using Copyright- and Royalty-Free Media
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Communication Tech in the Elementary Classroom. Monday, April 20, 2009. Want to use). A search on-line for. Can get you many. Be aware, though, that many (or most) of these sites do not contain filtered content and may include images that are not appropriate for children. You must examine the sites yourself before linking your students to them. Here are a few places to find images to use (be sure to check the sites prior to your lesson to make sure that they are still operable):. View my complete profile.
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Communication Tech in the Elementary Classroom: Ideas for using word processing software
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Communication Tech in the Elementary Classroom. Sunday, May 3, 2009. Ideas for using word processing software. Much of my thinking about technology integration seems to be. On online technologies. However, teachers should not overlook stand-alone technology, such as word processing when considering tools for technology integration. Word. That can have some significant impacts on student communication. Below are a few ways that you might incorporate word processing software to support student work. Offere...
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Communication Tech in the Elementary Classroom: October 2009
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Communication Tech in the Elementary Classroom. Monday, October 5, 2009. Kick off the year with technology! Ok - summer's ended and the school is is back underway. In the hustle and bustle of reorganizing and getting kids back into the swing of things, it can be daunting to consider taking on a new technology project. Despite that, I want to tell about a project that I've done each year at the start of school that yields some great results. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). View my complete profile. Kick off t...
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Communication Tech in the Elementary Classroom: Some "best practices" and other considerations
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Communication Tech in the Elementary Classroom. Tuesday, April 7, 2009. Some "best practices" and other considerations. I have been thinking about what guidelines ought to be considered when an elementary school teacher decides that he or she wishes to bring more technology into the classroom. It's a bit of a daunting task! For problem solving, communication, and application of their learning in authentic ways. The Center for Applied Research in Educational Technology (CARET). On their home page, they sa...