Children today will becoming inventors, creators and powerful thinkers through their access to technology. Students will learn cooperatively and be able to share their dreams. This will have a monumental impact on the world. Educators are shaping the future and using opportunities to broaden student's life.
Browsing through numerous wiki sites, I discovered a poetry wiki. Although it was for older students and quite complicated, I think it could be easily adjusted to the lower grades. Poetry Wiki
Continuing my trek in cyberspace I learned that Mrs. Ballweg's third grade class keeps tracking of their reading throughout the course of the year along with the genres they must read. Mrs. Ballweg's class This is useful because instead of having student's write things down they can keep track of it electronically. In addition she offered a site for book talks which my students would thoroughly enjoy.
How cute is it that they have a video recording team? They are learning so many skills, I don't even know how to edit videos! I would like to use this for my ELLs to help develop their oral language skills because they will be able to watch and listen to themselves. Once the verbal skills are developed, we can work on writing the message. Thanks for posting!
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