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Tools for Primary K-3 Online Instructing & Learning

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Individual Feedback:
Basic Information and Format
Target Audience
Groupings Identification + Description
Two types of technology groups are clearly identified, defined, and described AND Multiple tech tool examples are included for each group: You have included a wealth of options and their corresponding links, along with a thorough description of each grouping (instructor presentation; early childhood/elem literacy).
Tip: zoom out and look at the overall padlet. How could you label and organize the visual such that the observer did not need to search to bring sections together?
Groupings Justification
Two types of technology groups are justified as meaningful to the selected audience AND Language is written in a way that could correctly and easily be used to communicate with audience.: Thorough, and the justifications fit the groupings.
Digital Artifact
One tool featured AND How you would introduce the tech AND Focal features identified and rationalized AND Links to content, skills, dispositions AND Plan for audience engagement.: Multiple examples of VoiceThread created; description, explanation and justification included; information about how you would train teachers also present.

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View the following 2 VoiceThreads which demonstrate my fluency in this technology productivity tool.

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RazKids has leveled reading material. The tool allows the teacher to assign a book for the student to record themselves reading aloud and then send their recording to the teacher. This recording can be used to assess the student's oral fluency.

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We live in a Digital World and we teachers need to be literate ourselves to teach the new literacies of this digital communication revolution.
I just want to encourage all teachers to start taking the risks it takes to become literate in 21st Century Literacies and give your BEST to your students. Be literate and integrate technology with practical wisdom into your classroom.

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Literacy REMIX for 21st Century Learners

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The 21st Century Learner links to my Capstone Project

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The Beginner's Guide to Becoming a Tech-Savvy Guru Imagin... by Yvonne Carlson

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TOUCH this image to discover its story. Image tagging powered by ThingLink

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Curated by Yvonne Carlson 4/18/2017. To see more works created by Yvonne, visit Yvonne's Technology Literacy & Integration Website at http://thebeginnersguidetobecomingatech-savvygu.weebly.com/

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Writing Skills

Letter formation for early and emergent writers can have more practice reinforcing their handwriting skills. http://www.doorwayonline.org.uk/literacy/letterformation/

Story Starters are great to get reluctant writers going on an interesting and imaginative story. http://www.storyit.com/Starters/stgetaway.htm

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VoiceThread Tutorial for Online Students

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VoiceThread Tutorial for Online Students

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To use VoiceThread with students, I would introduce them to it through tutorials made for students. This VoiceThread  tutorial shows three ways students can do assignments with VoiceThread.

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How To: Using VoiceThread LMS Assignment Submission (for Students)

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This tutorial explains how students can complete VoiceThread assignments in your LMS.

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VoiceThread is a great Interactive App that allows for multimedia combinations of sound, static images, slides, video uploads, and voice or text comments on each slide. The commenter can use markers to mark up the slide to bring attention to the important feature of ideas in that slide. I demonstrated my ability with VoiceThread in my Case Study Technology Story about doing Online Collaboration. I embedded my PowToon video and included screenshots of various online pages where the online collaboration was done. For both audiences (educators and students) I would demonstrate the methods for uploading material, all the varieties and demonstrate the text and voice methods for leaving comments. I would demonstrate the ways teachers for various age groups are using and how well it supports collaborative learning and asynchronous communication. Because comments can be left with text, voice and video, there is great potential for human communication to include word meaning that comes through voice inflections and body and facial gestures. I would use the video commenting feature to help build up my rapport with the students and let them get to know me better as a human person by letting them see me and hear me in my feedback responses. I also believe the voice and video options provides a user friendly way for young children to share their thoughts as they have more they want to say than their writing skills allow.
I created a Primary Summative Assessment to use following a "Fiction or Nonfiction" general unit using VoiceThread. I believe it will be easier for students to state their answers with the microphone input option versus typing in answers due to their limited typing and writing skills. Through VoiceThread I can learn more of what the students are thinking as they process the learning tasks.
Also VoiceThread is a great way to create classroom projects to share on the classroom webpage. Those with the link can be given the option to make comments. In this way students can receive real world feedback from other people the class has connected to in the community such as experts, civic leaders and fine artists. One class had a visit from a children's literature author and they used VoiceThread to send her a collaborative thankyou card. The students were thrilled that the author left a comment for the class on the thread they sent her.

To introduce VoiceThread to teachers I would use a video similar to the one produced by Penn State University.
Published on Mar 11, 2015

This video introduces VoiceThread, the online video collaboration tool that is being used by Penn State.

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Voicethread - Simply Speaking (updated on 3/11/15)

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Interactive Literacy Applications for K-3 Learners:

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Interactive Literacy Applications for K-3 Learners:

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Reading Skills - Reading Reflect is a foolproof reading program that can be used with emergent readers of all ages. These interactive pages help reinforce the direct instruction time with the teacher.

Sound charts: http://www.phono-graphix.com/members_sound_charts.php

Worksheets http://www.phono-graphix.com/interactive_worksheets/Pink_WS_BOJ_final-US2.php

Word Recognition and the beginning sounds -http://www.arcademics.com/

Reading Rockets This site is great for supporting emergent readers and developing and strengthening reading literacy. It has sections devoted to teachers, parents and children. Researched based best practices for literacy education and professional development are presented in this site. This site is funded by a national multimedia literacy initiative and also contributes to the PBS series for children by the same name. One feature I find very useful is the section on how to teach reading literacy. There are many excellent videos and articles to help teachers learn the best practices for helping children succeed at reading. In addition, it is loaded with lessons and classroom activities to encourage a lifelong joy of reading (Reading Rockets, 2001).

Scholastic is an excellent site for students to drill and practice reading skills. The students enjoy the activities and want to do them for fun and learn at the same time.

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Students enjoy the Web 2.0 interactive application where they can respond to the text and receive and give feedback.

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Mouse and Keyboarding Interactive Learning Apps

Mouse Skills http://minimouse.us/  Mouse skills are important input skills that students need to master to navigate their way through online applications and websites using a PC or laptop. Touch screen skills would also be good to include at this age level, though touch pads and screens are very intuitive for young children.

Emergent Keyboarding Skills http://keyseeker.parkfieldprimary.com/ locating keys on keyboard - this very basic lesson helps the students to find the different keys on the keyboard to become familiar with them.

Two Hand Touch Typing for Primary Students http://www.bbc.co.uk/guides/z3c6tfr#z34thyc Dance Mat Typing This app guides the students into placing their two hands onto the home row correctly and shows the hands on the keys as you work through the touch typing game. The students can see their progress and how many lessons are included in that level. It is motivating and provides enough support to help students to hold the index fingers on the correct keys "f" and "j" which have a bump on them.

Upper Case - shift key and Sentence Typing ABCYA - Keyboard Zoo - Touch typing for primary learners. This link connects to the lesson for upper and lower case letters are practiced on this link. The students learn to use the shift key to make upper case letters and then type sentences starting with a capital letter to use correct language mechanics.

Basic 2 hand typing skills by Doorway Online - Touch Typing no thrills traditional approach to learning touch typing fingering. This app is the closest experience to touch typing instruction I had in high school typing/business elective. It seems very effective and straight to the point for those not interested in a game like touch typing application. http://www.doorwayonline.org.uk/typing/

Animated Gamified Storytelling Talking Fingers - http://www.talkingfingers.com/read-write-type/ Interactive cross-curricular app where emergent readers learn touch typing while reviewing and practicing phonics and writing skills. The letter symbols are referred to by the sound they represent versus their letter name. The story line is engaging and involves increasing levels of difficulty as the student progresses. This individualized quality provides the students with the right amount of practice they need to attain mastery.

Keyboarding-Skills Practice - This is a great site for learning touch typing. Keyboarding skills are essential for 21st century learning. All children young and old must master these skills, the earlier the better. A skill practice site like this can engage all age ranges and give them the skill practice they need in short 5 to 10 minute sessions.

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Primary K-2 Interactive digital tools for supporting communication block literacy for reading, writing and keyboarding.

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For Primary Summative Assessment

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Multimedia slides embed Powtoons, VoiceOvers, Images from the screen shots and interactive writing on the images while audio replying to the slide

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Animated Video Production Tool

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Collaboration Experience with D2L course to create a lesson plan template.-- Created using PowToon -- Free sign up at http://www.powtoon.com/youtube/ -- Create animated videos and animated presentations for free. PowToon is a free tool that allows you to develop cool animated clips and animated presentations for your website, office meeting, sales pitch, nonprofit fundraiser, product launch, video resume, or anything else you could use an animated explainer video.

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Web Link Assess or Brainstorming - examples of each question type.

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Create interactive content and formative assessments with Pear Deck

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Students process a real-world problem through this interactive PearDeck production that includes video and space for students to submit their estimates.

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School is just right around the corner for us up here in Ontario and I can't stop thinking about that first day. As for my grade 9 applied class' first day I have ran the R2D2 problem in the past with great success.
Now, over the summer I've seen great improvements in Pear Deck and wanted to get into it! Also Desmos has been busy and released Activity Builder!! So let's mash these two apps up with some R2D2!!

So here is the R2D2 problem presented with Pear Deck and an extensions with Desmos....

Act 1: The video

and this is what Pear Deck will show after you insert the video.....love how the video will be displayed on the projector and not on each individual device!!!

I like using Pear Deck here for asking for wonderings and notices because it allows students who normally won't shout out answers to have a voice in the room. Students get to input their responses and the teacher can show them on the projector.

For generating estimates I absolutely love how they put our Too high and Too low guess on a number line.....it gives us the visual of where our actual estimates will lie.

Act 2: Gathering the Info

In the new version here I get students to draw their estimates of the dimensions of both the board and the post it note.....this pushes them into drawing diagrams.

Revealing the dimensions....

Students are ready to solve....

Act 3: Revealing The answer

The Extension: How many rectangles can we make that have an area of 609 post it notes?
To extend I want students draw out different rectangles and label their dimensions! They can use Pear Deck's white board!

But then they can enter them into Desmos through a pre-made activity I created in Activity Builder. (the Pear Deck file links to the Desmos activity).

For each rectangle the student can come up with they find the perimeter and plot the length vs. perimeter in the Desmos graph. The teacher on the projector can use the Overlay function and show all the different rectangles students are coming up with...essentially showing the pattern that emerges! Using the pattern students can read off the minimum perimeter!

If you have a Pear Deck account Grab and download the file below!
Link to the Desmos Activity

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School is just right around the corner for us up here in Ontario and I can't stop thinking about that first day. As for my grade 9 applied class' first day I have ran the R2D2 problem in the past w...

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Voki Presenter can be embedded in Wikis  like PBWorks. I used 2 - 60 second audio clips I recorded with Audacity to make this 2 segment presentation flow as 1 two minute production. I then embedded the Voki as in a PBWorks page:
http://creativeandcriticalthinking6117.pbworks.com/w/page/111331582/ED%206117%20Transformational%20Design

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Presentation Apps for PCs, Laptops or Mobile Devices

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Presentation Apps for PCs, Laptops or Mobile Devices

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1. Interactive tools for Assessment and Feedback:

Google Forms to create Surveys https://www.google.com/forms/about/

PearDeck https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/pear-deck/dnloadmamaeibnaadmfdfelflmmnbajd

2. Interactive and multimedia content presentation tools:

ThingLink to create interactive lessons, practice guides, tests - https://www.thinglink.com/.

Voki to create Voice Over animated avatars to embed in a lesson - http://www.voki.com/site/index.

Screencastify to create video of your navigating through a website and making tutorial for how to use an application or do a task - https://www.screencastify.com/.

PowToons I used PowToons to create my Technology Case Study Story. There is music, my voice over and images and text headings and segments that I added to communicate a story with animated slides.

3. Synchronous Apps:

Join Me https://www.join.me/ host a free meeting and have your students join the meeting for synchronous group learning,

Mikogo  Screen Sharing app for one on one learning and tutoring https://www.mikogo.com/,

Zoom.Us https://zoom.us/  can be used for individual or class Video Conferencing, Webinars.

4. Collaborative Asynchronous Apps:

PowerPoint PowerPoint allows for multiple audio threads to be linked on each slide. I included background music and my voice over in my PowerPoint for a Minnesota History Unit I created.

Google Slides Similar to PowerPoint but easy to use in collaboration, supports multimedia, video with control over the beginning and ending section to feature in the clip.

Padlet This toolkit is hosted and created on Padlet. Multiple editors can combine their knowledge together to share with a real public audience.

PBWorks Wiki space website can host multiple editors and includes a comment section at the bottom.

Prezi Multimedia presentation app that supports audio, video, graphical organizer and animated transitions.

Google Docs Word Processing Online hosted app that support collaboration, co-editors, history of changes, comments/replies tied to highlighted portions in the document and chatroom.

VoiceThread - See My Featured Artifact below.

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Vocabulary Lesson/Test/Practice
Published by Donna Baumbach

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Sample of a Unit on Fairy Tales using Thinglink Published by Donna Baumbach

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I have included two primary categories that virtual teachers will need for communicating curriculum and instruction to the learners. Virtual Teachers prepare lessons to be accessed from multiple digital devices.
The first category is Instructor Use Presentation Apps for PCs or Tablets. These are interactive presentation tools that the teacher will use to format content and receive student responses. Some examples include https://www.join.me/, https://www.mikogo.com/ Screen Sharing, and https://zoom.us/ Video Conferencing, Webinars. For the virtual teacher, it is important to have multiple ways to engage students both synchronously and asynchronously. The students need to receive communications from the teacher that includes instructional content, directions of how to do tasks, and feedback to questions and performances students have submitted. Digital tools that allow teachers to share content in multimedia formats which include images and voice-overs are important because according to the multimedia principle, students learn better when auditory information is presented with related images. (Mayer, 2009).Students working on interactive technology applications to accomplish academic tasks. Virtual teaching is 100% technology-dependent and the tools and applications need to involve as much of human forms of communication as possible, so I include multimedia tools that include video conversations so the human voice and visual video of the human face and body can be included so the gestures can be part of the communication process. These multimedia tools allow for a great rapport to be established between the virtual teacher and the virtual learner.

The second category is Interactive Applications to Support 21st Century Primary Literacies including Reading, Writing and Digital communications. Digital tools should be interactive so the learning experience can transcend the passive learning mode of consuming connect as in most Web 1.0 application of the earlier Digital Age software. The more students can manipulate and create content the deeper their learning experience will be along with greater transfer value to other content areas. Interactive tools support critical and creative thinking and give an opportunity for the learner to innovate solutions outside the closed system passive learning models. Interactive tools also can provide immediate feedback a novice learner needs at the early stages of skill development, such as in the touch typing skills or letter formation skills. Virtual teachers can provide students with additional meaningful practice through interactive websites and tools that allow students needing extra practice to work independently and receive feedback and reinforcement during self-directed learning activities. These interactive tools are supplemental and should not be used to replace instruction and guided practice.
Some examples include:
Digital Input Skills

http://keyseeker.parkfieldprimary.com/ locate key on keyboard
Reading Skills
graphix.com/interactive_worksheets/Pink_WS_BOJ_final-US2.php

Writing Skills
http://www.storyit.com/Starters/stgetaway.htm

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Online Instructors for Primary K-3 Virtual School is the focal audience for this toolkit. However many of the tools are of interest and use to administrators, online instructors of higher grade levels and those teaching in higher education, especially teacher colleges preparing preservice teachers for the 21st century classroom. Also, teachers in traditional settings will find these tools useful for managing hybrid courses and technology integration into their classroom. For those teachers who are strictly working in an online environment, each tool is selected to support this virtual classroom experience.