Carrie Lindholm's final project focuses on integrating technology like blogs, photo galleries, and communication logs into the Pre-Kindergarten classroom. The project also evaluates new technologies being used in the classroom, including five iPads used during free time and centers, and educational apps like Teach Me Toddler that track individual student progress. Lindholm aims to help parents understand and support their children's use of technology in learning.

1. LRC 430 Final Project
Carrie Lindholm
December 10, 2014

2.  Integrating technology into the classroom-specifically
the Pre-Kindergarten classroom at my work.
 Working on integrating blogs for all classes in the
center.
Blogging Throughout the Semester

3. What we are learning this month:
 Includes lesson plans,
activities, and projects for
each month.

4. Photo Gallery
 Display of pictures and
videos of the students.
 Easily accessible-parents
can print copies of
photos.

5.  Place where parents can communicate with
teachers/send messages to their children throughout
the day.
Communication Log

6. • Each student has a portfolio
showing his/her success
throughout the school year.
• Includes anecdotal notes,
photographs, art, stories, and
other samples of children's
work.
• In the Pre-K class-students
write their name on their first
day, and also right before their
graduation.
Portfolio

7.  Parents can view and understand the use of the
different technologies students are using within the
classroom.
 Currently, our Pre-K class has 5 iPad’s used during free
time/centers twice a day.
New Technologies Within the
Classroom

8.  Designed with the educator in mind and is extremely
customizable.
 It allows a whole classroom of students to use a single
ipad, and tracks each student’s individual progress.
 It also has leveled instruction. Each student progresses
through the activities, moving forward only when mastery
has been achieved.
 The teacher is also allowed to define what mastery looks
like for each student.
Teach Me Toddler App

9.  Timmy wanders through a variety of scenes that
require him to complete a series of different tasks.
 The children find this app very engaging.
 Teaches color matching, patterning, shapes &
counting.
 It offers stickers as each task is completed.
 Does not lend itself with multiple users
Timmy’s Pre-School Adventure

10. PBS Parents Play and Learn
 Teaches literacy, math
and thinking skills.
 Leading the children to
deeper learning, not just
deeper into the app store,
as is so often the case
with online learning.

11. Jump Start Pre-School
 Children were guided
through a series of activities
that became progressively
harder until they had
completed an entire group
of tasks.
 Children complete activities
to earn stars.
 Works better for individual
students, not for whole
classroom.