Week 4
1. It has been a real learning experience making my photo story. I can definitely use this tool in Kindergarten. I take many pictures of my students. They will enjoy arranging the pictures and dictating text to make a movie of the things we learn. Parents will enjoy it also. This is where I would post my photo story but unfortunately the system is experiencing difficulty with embedding videos and my only choice is to keep trying.
2.,3. United Streaming is an excellent learning tool. I use it often in my classroom. It was fun looking through Teacher tube, but often the videos were not good quality and it took a lot of time to view them. I did find videos to embed in this blog; one video is titled "At what age Kindergarten?" and the other is Technology in Kindergarten. Again, I am unable to embed these into the blog because of the difficulties in blogger.

Week 5
1. Given that I have a Kindergarten classroom, I think that using a wiki with my students will not be easy but I can see that perhaps I could have a wiki to use with parents of students to post calendars of Kindergarten events. I do think, however, that this is a lot of trouble for posting a calendar!
2.A wiki and a blog are both tools for sharing information and both give opportunities for the reader to respond. It seems to me that a wiki is a better tool to use when it is necessary to involve certain people (as on a committee) and feedback from those people is easier since the information, or document can be turned into a working document and then changes can be made very quickly and easily. Also it is nice to have a history of all the revisions on the wiki.
3. I am open to any suggestions on how to use a wiki in a kindergarten classroom!! This is something that perhaps could be used but not until the second semester! Any ideas?

Week 3
Wow!! I am still overwhelmed at all of this stuff!! I will definitely be using Google Earth with my Kindergarten class. I was able to find some Kindergarten Math games using the google reader. I can see that I really need to spend a lot of time playing around with this to be able to use it in the classroom.

Week 2

Thanks to Mrs. Griff this was easy!! Some of the things we were asked to do (view Blogs in plain English) we could not do. That was unsettling for me as a first time blogger/ blog creator. Also, I will be creating my voki at home because we are unable to do it at this session. I think I may even play around with the setting at home! I'm feeling a little less overwhelmed!

Week 1

I've always known that I am not in tune with technology and I know that I need to be more "hip" in this regard. The video shows the importance of technology to children and that this is their future. In order to better prepare my students for the future, I need to keep up with technology. I am still not sure how this will impact my Kindergarten class but I am willing to give it a go!