Learning, Teaching & Technology

My S(M)ART Goal for Writing Class – Winter/Spring 2007-08

I took this course so that I would have more interaction with teachers who are looking to improve writing instruction in their classrooms. In particular, I want to know more about writing instruction in the K-4 classroom so that I can offer students the most appropriate technology tools to support writing for various purposes.

My goal for my students is to see an increased interest and productivity when students are writing in the computer lab. This will look like:
•    2nd graders writing stories in the Clicker program with voice feedback.
•    4th graders doing quickwrites in Clicker with voice feedback.
•    2nd and 3rd graders using Classroom Blogmeister blogs
•    All grades recording voice narration on voicethread.com
•    All grades comfortable with font, size, color and alignment for text.
•    All grades learning to add a Drawing to a Word Processing page for illustration
•    3rd & 4th graders learning to add images from the Internet to writing.
•    3rd & 4th graders designing ezedia projects combining text and images.

http://usmsummer2007.wikispaces.com/ is the link to Alice Barr’s course that I attended at USM for graduate credit. During that course I started this blog and tried many web 2.0 tools for the first time.