1. Integrating Technology to enhance literacy in the early years
Ben Sheridan

2. Kids like to have fun
They deserve to have fun!

3. we live in a World full of wonder
There is so much wonder and excitement to share.

4. BORING!

5. Twitter in the
classroom
✴Open students to
experiences they couldn’t
have themselves
✴Validate their own
experiences
✴Used a gateway to share
other projects

6. Kindergarten
Around the WORLD
Kindergarten Around the World is a
twitter-based virtual exchange project,
allowing young students to experience
and explore life in another country by
building a relationship with a class of
similarly-aged children.
http://kindergartenaroundtheworld.blogspot.ca/p/welcome.html

7. Class Makes Introduction Videos

8. Our New Friends
We Made and End of Project Review
https://vimeo.com/47923152

9. The Project Was Picked up On Local News in Canada
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13qtrohBvs8&feature=

10. Collaborative VoiceThread
Project
✴ Kindergarten Classrooms
Around the World
✴ Student Generated Photos
✴ Student Generated
Comments
✴ Students took it to the next
level using Skitch

18. Kindergarteners In Japan
And Indonesia
Collaborate to Write
Story
Collaborate to Write
Story

19. Wanted Kids to work
together to Write Story

20. Standards Met:
•Demonstrate command of the
conventions of standard English grammar
and usage when writing or speaking.
•With guidance and support, explore word
relationships and nuances in word
meanings. Produce and publish writing.
•Students will listen and respond critically
to oral communication.
•Students will analyze and evaluate the
content and its presentation in a variety of
media.

21. tool

22. ✴SmartBoard
✴Twitter

23. ✴Skype
✴ Google Docs

24. ✴ iPads
✴ iPods

25. ✴Classroom
Blog

26. Introduction
✴Reviewed earlier
collaborative story to build
context
✴Tweeted to partner class
✴created google document

27. •Kids
were
stoked!

28. Did we meet
our goals?
✴Students wrote a 5
chapter story
✴collaborated with partner
class using google docs,
twitter, skype, blogs
✴met standards High Five!

29. Evidence
✴e-book-
The Adventures of the
monkey and the Cat
available in the Itunes store
(
http://itunes.apple.com/us/book/adventures-monkey-cat/id524
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✴ Google Document
✴ Blog

30. In Hindsight...
✴ Illustrations as the story
progressed
✴ Made video reflections as
story progressed
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31. Sharing is
caring
✴ Blogged about it
✴ shared it with #kinderchat
folks
✴ Shared with PLN via
twitter (RT)
✴ shared on various
websites focusing on
collaborative projects
✴ Wrote article on project
for NewsLinks

32. Learning
✴ Collaboration can
motivate and elevate
✴ Learning process for both
students and teachers

33. Blogs in
Kindergarten
✴ Validates student
accomplishments
✴ Provides opportunity
for direct feedback
✴ Great place to share
work from other platforms
✴ Communication with
parents, grandparents etc
✴ Resource for other
teachers

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