tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3886802680196710892.post8354916999715494114..comments2013-08-31T02:01:17.774-07:00Comments on Technology in Primary Education: Classroom Without WallsJewel Andersonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14183800587571300055noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3886802680196710892.post-5680643153181584932009-11-15T21:25:43.001-08:002009-11-15T21:25:43.001-08:00Getting the kids used to interacting with a scanne...Getting the kids used to interacting with a scanner is a great suggestion and I would have to make sure that I ask our technology teacher to support me with this class activity. Unfortunately, our technology teacher only provides weekly tech classes for 5th grade students. All other classes would have to ask for extra support or a special tech lesson done by the technology teacher if they wanted a technology lesson presented to them. I will definitely have to express an interest for my students so that we can receive as much support as possible.Jewel Andersonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14183800587571300055noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3886802680196710892.post-85966241351469174772009-11-15T21:18:16.369-08:002009-11-15T21:18:16.369-08:00Second graders don't have a required email add...Second graders don't have a required email address. I would have to have them either use their parents' addresses or find a way where they could post blog responses on a class webpage without having to submit personal email addresses. I wonder if our school cool create generic email accounts for the students. This who adventure is something that would definitely take deep and careful thoughts before I completely went through with it.Jewel Andersonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14183800587571300055noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3886802680196710892.post-40135991780638940622009-11-13T18:49:31.281-08:002009-11-13T18:49:31.281-08:00Jewel,
I shy away from even considering teaching ...Jewel,<br /><br />I shy away from even considering teaching elementary students working with technology, because I am a secondary educator who loves children who already know how to line up and tie their shoes. That being said, your idea for celebrating the students' work and allowing them to expand a social studies assignment or any more project or drawing based assignment by posting and commenting about it to a web log is great! <br /><br />I think that gives students a desire to practice typing, so they can encourage their friends, and it helps students practice interacting with each other "without walls". My only suggestion would be that you provide time in class to scan the material onto the website, so students without such technology can feel like their input will be able to validated. In that same way, you should take a moment to teach the children how to use a scanner and explain it's many uses. This way they can leave your classroom feeling comfortable not only with software type activities like interacting with blogs, but they will also feel more comfortable about using hardware like scanners.<br /><br />Charis JonesCharis Chttp://mrsccephas.edublogs.org/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3886802680196710892.post-59399404898973173442009-11-13T14:38:36.742-08:002009-11-13T14:38:36.742-08:00Jewel
I too am an elementary teacher and the blog ...Jewel<br />I too am an elementary teacher and the blog idea I have found difficult to fully develop at the elementary level without the full support of the parents. Upper elementary, third - fifth grade, are a little better equipped in terms of responding to blogs but I still think it is a difficult concept to bridge at this level. I will be interested to see how excited your students will be when they are given the opportunity to blog. Do you have a tech class at your building? We do but I don't believe that the students are yet participating in blogs.Michelehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05036163606664089784noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3886802680196710892.post-6704019853396006212009-11-13T13:29:12.949-08:002009-11-13T13:29:12.949-08:00Jewel,
I think you are very brave to set up a cla...Jewel, <br />I think you are very brave to set up a classroom blog for second graders. Do second graders have e-mail addresses that are required to set up blogs? I'm still very new to this and I'm not sure how you would manage their blogs. When you start this let me know how it works.Nancy Grosellehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17474701452857312962noreply@blogger.com