Technology Tools In Kindergarten!
Kelly Miksch and Brenda Rodriguez
Tools for even 5 year olds!
There are many tools today in which can assist students of all ages. Here are just a few ideas of how to use them with five and six year old students. Why hold them back? Let them explore and easily create their own project without any true instruction.
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- Websites:
- Sheppards Software
- Scholastic
- PBS Kids
- Time for Kids
- StarFall
- Harry Kindergarten Songs (from Youtube)
Shuffle Ideas
- Phonics songs
- Color songs
- Number songs
- Books teachers have read for student listening center.
- North East ISD has built a course in iTunes U that was designed for Kinder and First Grade. Phonics, Numbers, Rhyming, and more.
- iTunes U Resource
iPod Classics Ideas
- Convert Youtube videos to MP4 format to have students listen too.
- Keepvid, AnyVideo Converter, FreeMake
- IF you have Discovery Education subscription you can do the same to those videos.
iTouch Ideas
- Use apps that will reinforce academic skills such as handwriting, number recognition, letter recognition, basic addition and subtraction, counting, and basic skill reinforcement.
- Using the camera feature to take pictures or videos of science experiments,
SMARTBoard/Airliner/Slate Ideas
iPad Productivity Ideas for Kinder
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· Story Me
· Kids Journal
· Book Magic
· Screenchomp
· Doodle Buddy
· Read To Me
· Collins Big Cat Books