PLN and Web 2.0 for elementary students

[BethB]

Looking for ways to integrate web 2.0 tools with elementary students K-3. Any ideas on good places to start?

[Beth Sigman]

Do you use a SMART board in your classroom? I think that a SMART board is a great way for younger grade students to begin to interact with the web. Using the SMART notebook software you can have students create their own responses to prompts and then save their responses as images. These images can then be uploaded to a blog or wiki.

[Bob Sprankle]

Beth,

I mentioned this in the webinar last night:

Arcademics.

It's an incredibly engaging way for students to start to realize the power of the network and makes learning math facts easy and fun. Also, Dave from Arcademics will be on our next Seedlings' Podcast --June 11th.

Bob

[BethB]

WOW - I love it. Thank you.

Lots of great information on their site.

I do have a couple of questions. How do you set up games for use with a class or grade level? Once you set up a game can you save it so students can access it at any time? Is this a free site or only parts of the site are free?

Also how do you access student data? is this done on-line or do does each student have some type of paper/pencil record sheet that they complete?

I will try to attend the Podcast on the 11th but I believe I have an evening meeting.
Again, thank you.

Beth

[Bob Sprankle]

Hi Beth,

At this point, there's no way to capture all that data, but I understand that Arcademics is working in that direction. Hopefully we'll hear more next Thursday :)

Bob

[BethB]

Thank you for the suggestion. We do not use SMART boards. We have promethean - but I'm sure I could figure out another way to do the responses and save as images. Then I could upload them to a blog or wiki. Great idea.

What grade do you teach?
Beth