Tool #11

The students must understand their roles and responsibilities in digital society. Teachers must help students become responsible citizens, and must work as a model.

Teachers must explain and teach students the norms, rules and laws that govern the use of technology for they become good digital citizens, and responsible users of technology through the information around world network, while they use and share information appropiately.

Students must understand how digital tools are accesible to them and it's easy to work them.

Students must know how to work with some of the many digital tools that could facilitate them accessing knowledge.

Tool #10

These are some of the free apps I like:
1. Dictionary.com. It delivers trusted reference content from Dictionary.com and Thesaurus.com. No Internet connection is needed once downloaded.
2. Dragon Dictation. Easy to use voice recognition application that allows you to speak and instantly see your text or e-mail messages.
3. Comic Touch Lite. Make your own photos come alive by giving them the Comic Touch. Add balloons to give your subjects thoughts and words. Add captions to describe the scene or title the photo.

My PK students can use the iTouch watching videos, listening music, learning to read, playing games, enhancing knowledge after experiences at the zoo, etc. These are some apps appropriate for them:

1. I Can Read Lite. Designed for young children learning to read and spell. Over 60 three letter words.
2. Houston Zoo. Designed to enhance the guest experience at the zoo while increasing knowledge of wildlife and conservation both at the zoo itself and while at home.
3. VideoScience. Science experiment videos 2 to 3 minutes minutes in length that demostrate the steps of simple experiments designed to inspire kids of all ages.

Note: All the descriptions I have given before were taken from the list of SBISD Approved Apps for the iPod Touch.

Tool #9

I think screencast.com, Jing, and Skype could be used by my PK students with my help. Jing could help me save time by allowing me to take videos, or captures to create videos, when working with my students.

Skype could be useful for students in the classroom to learn to chat.

I downloaded Jing and Signed Up for screencast.com

I saved took two captures and saved them in one of my folders. Also I share one of them in the screencast folder.

Tool #8

It was a great experience uploading videos.





Videos is a powerful tool to teach new concepts because they are the visual and hearing part of the topic been taught. These 2 videos are very important while I'm teaching about Water and Animal Architects units.

Tool #7

This has been my best excited experience working with "11 Tools". Here it is my product.

Tool #6

Wikis are fun web pages to work collaboratively. PK students could begin to use them with teacher's asistance and help. Students could be working in projects adding, sharing, and discussing ideas.

Teacher teams could post road maps, lessons plans, and diferent student activities to share them and with other teams.

Tool #5

I found 2 web pages using the tags "Writing Numbers" and "Counting Numbers". I have include them in the Social Bookmarking Site into my Library. These are:

http://www.lessonplanspage.com/MathWritingNumbersInDifferentWaysPK.htm

http://pbskids.org/curiousgeorge/games/count_your_chickens/count_your_chickens.html

This is a powerfull tool to share important information (web sites) when our work teams.