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It is very important to tie technology as well as any activity to an objective, that is our responsibility as a teacher; are the children learning or playing in our classroom? We have so much to teach that it is easy (but time consuming) to find an objective for the many activities to do with the new tools we are getting.
Holding students accountable for the stations/centers helps develop self determinant learners, at kinder level the majority of the kids at eager to learn and discover and must of all to SHARE ! and that is what we can use to demonstrate their learning. We must know our students well to provide different choices not every size fits all.
I like Thinkfinity , using Xpeditions the students use a Venn diagram to compare and contrast two animal communities of their choosing, first make a list, use the diagram, answer questions an print to show accountability.
Xpeditions Student Print Press
This student interactive, allows students to create print publications. Students can choose to design booklets, newspaper, advertise and they can print it.
How Many Under the Shell?
This student interactive from Illuminations allows students to discover basic addition and subtraction facts. This activity will help them prepare for the hidden assessment.
In Learning games for kids http://www.learninggamesforkids.com/ under Science games go to science songs there is Roy G. Biv a cute song about the rainbow. The kids can create their own rainbow.
From TES iboard I found simple activities for math good to for the netbooks in math stations http://www.iboard.co.uk/activity/3231 graphs bear and print their graphs and http://www.iboard.co.uk/activity/3912 an activity to identify ordinal numbers, first, second and third then print.
Here are some apps I found for the iPod Touch/iPad that already download. ABC letter tracing, ABC sequence and 123 animals count.
Some of the ideas of using the iPod besides apps that I’m thinking are: video tape a lesson for re teaching, kids videotape themselves reading, recording new words in English. When my students are doing research in some topics I spend a lot of time translating, printing and pasting text in the books. Not anymore! This year I will record the translation 