March 30 - First Night of class

I am amazed and impressed by all the Web 2.0 tools available to learn and use for this course! I am especially interested in learning more about creating videos to introduce a unit, teach a simple concept, review material, or have some active participation with my kindergarteners. I think they will be especially attentive and remain more focused, if they have an animated character to listen to and watch, like the one created with the xtranormal video program. I also am interested in learning how to use the Animoto tool. One thing I have not done is create a class webpage, for the kindergarten parents to view and access. I have often wanted to update families, let them know of some new or exciting learning activity, an upcoming event, or just share some pictures of things their students have been doing. The webpage would be perfect for this! I hope to learn ways to use this technology to make my teaching more current and interesting to my students. They are often so tech-savvy, that I need to keep up with them!