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I recently just introduced Prezi to my middle school students and they LOVE it! I told them that they do not have to always stick to the traditional power-point for their presentations. We just started using prezi last week and it's been going great so far! It even got some of my less motivated students more motivated to do their work so I am extremely happy about that!

I also use WIX for my classroom website and that works great as well for communicating with parents! Check it out below:

http://arichardson6.wixsite.com/2ndgrade

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Example of one of my 2nd graders science fair projects. :)

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Here are some of my 2nd graders using technology to complete their Social Studies research projects.

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Innovation: I absolutely love the idea of the virtual school option for inclement weather. I think this is perfect! I live in the DC-metropolitan area, so we experience a lot of snow! Consequently, students unfortunately miss a lot of instruction time. How awesome would it be if teachers in this area were able to offer virtual lessons for our students as well?! This is something that I will definitely bring up at the next staff meeting!

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Digital Resources: I would love to try the Symbaloo website for my middle school Law and Social Justice students. I often find myself emailing them a lot of useful websites as resources. Therefore, I would love to try sending them this information in the form of a cool, hipp website such as Symbaloo. I'm sure they'd love that since it would arguably be a lot more entertaining than my boring emails! :)

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For this post, I chose 2nd grade, Language Arts.  I currently teach that now, so I was very familiar with the Indiana standards since they are similar to the ones I use now. I currently integrate technology a lot in my classroom. We use a website called IXL (which implements Virginia's standards). On IXL, the children can play various games that allow them to apply what we have learned in class. My students love this website and so do I. We also use a website called "Storyline Online," that allows us to enjoy various different audio books.

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If we teach today as we taught yesterday, we rob our children of tomorrow. - John Dewey

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Social Media: Social media could really help shape my classroom because I constantly am in contact with my students and their parents. I email, call, and text parents on a daily basis. Therefore, maybe if I decided to make a class Twitter page, I could send important messages to parents that way. Perhaps it would also take less time than sending an email (especially since my number of characters would be limited). I also think this would be more effective because most of my kids parents have social media. Perhaps they could even subscribe to my tweets so that they are sent to their phone. I think that'd be pretty cool!

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Were you aware of these standards for grades K-6?

Yes, I was aware of these standards. They were very similar to the standards I follow for my 2nd grade Virginia students.

How do I implement these standards?

I implement these standards in my classroom everyday by using the scientific method (and not just when we're doing work related to science). I also implement these standards all throughout the year with various science experiments that require critical thinking skills.

I work at a science & technology K-12 private school. Therefore, as you probably can imagine, we implement various forms of science and computer science all year round. In fact, we just had a science fair a few weeks ago. It consisted of all grades, K-12, so it was pretty interesting to see that.