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Photopeach This is my first slide show using photopeach! In class, we decided to graph our predictions to see if March came in like a lion or lamb? The kids love getting their pictures taken and were excited to pose. Photopeach was easy to use and download. Even though it was very short the students loved watching it!

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Glogster- Here is my Glogster!!!!!!!! Students read a story using Photobooth. I downloaded their videos to glogster and had the students pick out the graphics and backgrounds. Finally, I downloaded the glogs to my blog so that parents could enjoy watching their children read! It was really fun for the kids and it was a good assessment for me to be able to listen to the kids read a book we have been working on in guided reading groups.

Photobooth- I have been using photobooth on my computer because my students can snap a picture of themselves or make a video. I had trouble using glogster to create a video and photobooth allowed my students to make short video that were easy to download to glogster or any other site I was using. I would like to expirement more with other tools for making videos though.



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I am officially a tweeter! I have been using the tweet deck on my computer so that I don't have to go into the twitter website. I have found a ton of websites that I don't think I could have found on my own. That has been the biggest benefit that I have found using twitter!



http://mrsspallaskindergartenblog.blogspot.com/ Here is my fabulous blog! I love blogging! This is what I have replaced my hard copy newsletter with. I sent home a letter to all my parents telling them that current expectations and class information would be on this blog. So, far I do not have the followers but recently I have been sending out emails to my parents encouraging them to look at the blog. It has been extremely fun adding video! I discovered photopeach in class and have been able to enhance my blog with a slide show from that.

Skype -I have used Skype with colleagues and with my students. Karen Innis, the Title 1 teacher, used Skype to have students from my class read to the remainder of students who did not attend Title 1 reading. The students in my class loved watching their classmates read to them knowing they were in another room down the hall. 

Diigo- my new best friend. I have been using Diigo to create lists for all my bookmarks. It has been so much easier than just having a bookmark tab. This is the example of my "class" list. These are all the bookmarks that I have been using for class. I have also used Diigo to share other links with teachers. Julie Gleason, Shelly Carter and I belong to a group called Kindergarten on Diigo. We have been using that to share classroom ideas.



Dropbox- Recently, I have also been using the application Dropbox to share files, etc with other teachers. Julie Gleason and I have one that we share collected ubd units on and other items that we work on together. The kindergarten teachers of FCSD have created another file which we are planning to utilize to share classroom ideas, common assessments, etc. I am still in the playing around stage of dropbox though and am certainly not comfortable yet....but planning on getting familiar with it.



Reflections~ All posts for class can be found on the class discussion pages!

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