I have been thinking of ways that I can use pod casting in my room and will try next year to use it in my classroom as a tool to help the children with their letter sounds. I think this will help them in making the sounds correctly if they can hear themselves making the letter sounds. Plus this will have more meaning to them if they are taking an active part in the process.

I just read about pod casting and this also sounds like a great learning tool. I can see how it could be used in the classroom. When my daughter was in second grade they wrote stories and then did a pod cast. This was a lot of fun for her and she enjoyed sharing it with me. I now have to think of ways to use it in my classroom.

I recently used a Flip Video camera to take clips of students for my PSA group. This gave me the idea to use it with my kindergarten class to do a weather report for our weather unit. I will do the video taping since they are so young but maybe by the end of the year they would be able to help make a video for the classroom. I can see how this could be a great tool to use for the classroom.

Since I have been learning about wikis and blogs I have seen them all over the Internet. I have found them useful in some research that I recently did for a paper. I see how the can be a great tool for the classroom. I am still looking for ways that they can be used in my kindergarten classroom. Does anyone have an suggestions?

This week I read about wikis. I thought that it was very interesting and saw where it could play a part in the classroom. Many of the examples in the book by Will Richardson were for older classrooms. I am wondering if there are any wikis for kindergarten or if anyone has any ideas of how wikis could be used in kindergarten.

I am not sure how I can use blogging in my classroom. I may be able to use it toward the end of the year when more of my children are reading and writing. I may be able to use it as a communication tool with my parents. There may even be a blog for kindergarten teachers that could give me new ideas to use in my classroom.

First Blog

This is my first blog ever. Yes I am a "Digital Immigrant". Up till now I had never heard very much about blogging. Then in the past two weeks it is all I heard about on the news. It seemed that everyone had a blog about the inauguration. I am looking forward to learning more about blogging and how I can use it to be a better teacher.