For my final project I want to display how one iPad transformed the learning in my Kindergarten classroom. When I first started taking classes towards my instructional technology degree I was very excited to transform my Kindergarten room into using 21st century skills. At first I was a little nervous because
most of the other teachers getting this degree worked with older kid’s second grade to the high school level. I teach Kindergarten, so how much technology can my little ones actually access? I soon found out a lot!! Blended learning can
happened in a Kindergarten classroom by having a set of iPads as a center rotation. See my blog below! What I discovered once I actually had an iPad as the power of the video camera and an app called iMovie! With one iPad I transformed the learning in my room. I videoed children learning, reading, teaching others, and I posted them on my classroom website. Each month I would have over 500 hits on my website! That went up from the average last year of 100 a month. It wasn’t just the parents using my website to learn about my classroom, but the children were using it to learn and see themselves! It inspired them to want to write better and produce high quality work so I would pick them to be in a video. There was something magical about the iPad camera.
Knowing I had an end of the project assignment coming up I videoed my kids teaching next year’s kids their letter names, sounds and actions for all the letters of the alphabet. My hope is that parents and students will be able to access this
video to help them learn their letter names and sounds. I can assign homework as going onto my website and watching the video along with other videos my next year’s kids will make. We have a new handwriting curriculum next year called
handwriting without tears. I will video children forming the letters we learn each week along with the words they are supposed to say as they form the letter. The videos will be posted to my website and for homework I can assign the parents and students to watch how to properly hold their pencil and form their letters correctly.
The idea of posting videos to my class website to reinforce what we are doing in the classroom is a brilliant idea. In a way it’s like the flipped classroom for the Kindergarten classroom!
most of the other teachers getting this degree worked with older kid’s second grade to the high school level. I teach Kindergarten, so how much technology can my little ones actually access? I soon found out a lot!! Blended learning can
happened in a Kindergarten classroom by having a set of iPads as a center rotation. See my blog below! What I discovered once I actually had an iPad as the power of the video camera and an app called iMovie! With one iPad I transformed the learning in my room. I videoed children learning, reading, teaching others, and I posted them on my classroom website. Each month I would have over 500 hits on my website! That went up from the average last year of 100 a month. It wasn’t just the parents using my website to learn about my classroom, but the children were using it to learn and see themselves! It inspired them to want to write better and produce high quality work so I would pick them to be in a video. There was something magical about the iPad camera.
Knowing I had an end of the project assignment coming up I videoed my kids teaching next year’s kids their letter names, sounds and actions for all the letters of the alphabet. My hope is that parents and students will be able to access this
video to help them learn their letter names and sounds. I can assign homework as going onto my website and watching the video along with other videos my next year’s kids will make. We have a new handwriting curriculum next year called
handwriting without tears. I will video children forming the letters we learn each week along with the words they are supposed to say as they form the letter. The videos will be posted to my website and for homework I can assign the parents and students to watch how to properly hold their pencil and form their letters correctly.
The idea of posting videos to my class website to reinforce what we are doing in the classroom is a brilliant idea. In a way it’s like the flipped classroom for the Kindergarten classroom!