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Post 6: New Technology Instructional Tool

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Post 6: New Technology Instructional Tool

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Grade Level: Kindergarten
Tool: Raz-Kids

Raz-Kids (Reading A-Z) is a digital literacy component that offers students individualized leveled reading books and literacy activities. I currently utilize this resource for E-Learning and within the classroom during our Guided Reading Centers. Students are also able to access this wonderful resource from home for additional enrichment. I am able to set each students reading level so they are able to independently select and read books at their instructional reading level. I am able to print reports to track student progress and determine when they need to level up. This tool helps to effectively integrate technology and offers a wide range of fiction and non fiction texts at the touch of a finger. Students earn points for each compete read and build their own personal robot avatar. I highly recommend this user-friendly resource!

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Kids A to Z login page for students, parents, and teachers

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Grade Level: Kindergarten
Social Media: Twitter

@INeLearn Provides educators in Indiana an opportunity to share ideas and connect anytime through the use of mobile devices. Teachers are able to post ideas and digital media as well as gain new ideas.
I currently do not have a Twitter account, mainly because of the lack of time to stay connected. After exploring their website, I do see the benefits of collaborating and sharing ideas and resources with fellow educators. This opportunity could help improve instruction by introducing best practices that I may not currently utilize.

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Post 4: Useful Tools/Online Communities of Practice

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Post 4: Useful Tools/Online Communities of Practice

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Grade Level: Kindergarten
Community: Indiana-Kindergarten Educator Community of Practice

This online community is a place for Kindergarten teachers across the globe to collaborate, share best practices, ideas, and resources. I am excited to join this community and learn more about the vast digital resources available to utilize within the classroom. It is also a great forum to share and learn new innovative ways to integrate the standards into daily lessons.

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Note: This blog post outlines upcoming changes to Google Currents for Workspace users. For information on the previous deprecation of Google+ for users with personal Google accounts, please see this post.

What's Changing

We are nearing the end of this transition. Beginning July 5, 2023, Currents will no longer be available. Workspace administrators can export Currents data using Takeout before August 8, 2023. Beginning August 8th, Currents data will no longer be available for download.

Although we are saying goodbye to Currents, we continue to invest in new features for Google Chat, so teams can connect and collaborate with a shared sense of belonging. Over the last year, we've delivered features designed to support community engagement at scale, and will continue to deliver more. Here is a summary of the features with additional details below:

This month, we're enabling new ways for organizations to share information across the enterprise with announcements in Google Chat. This gives admin controls to limit permissions for posting in a space, while enabling all members to read and react, helping ensure that important updates stay visible and relevant. Later this year, we plan to simplify membership management by integrating Google Groups with spaces in Chat, enable post-level metrics for announcements, and provide tools for Workspace administrators to manage spaces across their domain.
Announcements in Google Chat Managing space membership with Google Groups
We've already rolled out new ways to make conversations more expressive and engaging such as in-line threading to enable rich exploration of a specific topic without overtaking the main conversation and custom emojis to enable fun, personal expression.
In-line threaded conversations Discover and join communities with up to 8,000 members
We've also made it easier for individuals to discover and join communities of shared interest. By searching in Gmail, users can explore a directory of available spaces covering topics of personal or professional interest such as gardening, pets, career development, fitness, cultural identity, and more, with the ability to invite others to join via link. Last year, we increased the size of communities supported by spaces in Chat to 8,000 members, and we are working to scale this in a meaningful way later this year.
A directory of spaces in Google Chat for users to join.
Our partner community is extending the power of Chat through integrations with essential third-party apps such as Jira, GitHub, Asana, PagerDuty, Zendesk and Salesforce. Many organizations have built custom workflow apps using low-code and no-code tools, and we anticipate that this number will continue to grow with the GA releases of the Chat API and AppSheet's Chat app building capabilities later this year.

For teams to thrive in this rapidly changing era of hybrid work, it's essential to build authentic personal connections and a strong sense of belonging, no matter when or where individuals work. We will continue to make Google Chat the best option for Workspace customers seeking to build a community and culture for hybrid teams, with much more to come later this year.

Who's impacted

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New community features for Google Chat and an update on Currents

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Grade Level: Kindergarten
Symbaloo: A free digital organizing interface for educators that offers teachers and students web access in a safe and organized page. This is amazing how easily Kindergartners and teachers with limited technology skills could find and access their favorite apps and web links to classroom digital media. I am super excited to utilize this tool to organize my digital components and easily store and access them on one simple page!

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Save, organize and share your favorite online resources with Symbaloo! Use tiles to store links to websites, videos, web docs, and more.

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Symbaloo: Bookmarks & Favorites - The #1 Homepage for Educators

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Save, organize and share your favorite online resources with Symbaloo! Use tiles to store links to websites, videos, web docs, and more. Make your online life easier by keeping all your favorite websites organized in a visually-appealing, personalized environment. Save your links in tiles that you can customize with different colors, icons or images.

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Post 2: Performance Standards: Math and Computer Science 

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Post 2: Performance Standards: Math and Computer Science 

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Grade Level: Kindergarten
Subject: Math
Standards: K-2DI.1,  K.NS.4, K.NS.5
Digital Lesson: IXL  is an online differentiated math program that allows students to work independently to complete a series of math standards. This practice forces students to master specific skill sets and tracks individual progress. I currently use IXL as an independent math center during Guided Math three days a week. Students may also access IXL from home for E-Learning or additional practice. The standards above are listed to fulfill a lesson on counting objects. After this standard has been introduced and taught in the classroom, students utilize IXL for additional practice and enrichment.

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Learn kindergarten math skills for free! Choose from hundreds of topics including counting, comparing, shapes, addition, subtraction, and more. Start now!

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Post 1: Performance Standards: Computer Science 

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Post 1: Performance Standards: Computer Science 

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Grade Level: Kindergarten
I was aware of the computer science standards for Kindergarten and implement several of them into my classroom on a daily/weekly basis. My class also receives computer instruction from our school technology teacher once a week where many of these standards and skills are taught and utilized.
Standard K-2.CD.1
Use standard input and output devices to operate computers and other technologies.
Example: Utilizing the game Fuzz Bugs, teaches Kindergarten students the relationship between the mouse and the computer screen. This digital lesson focuses on the skill of drag and drop. It also integrates several Kindergarten math standards such as sorting, counting, patterning and graphing.

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ABCya! * Fuzz Bugs - Counting, Sorting, & Comparing Game for Kids

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Fuzz Bugs is fun activity for Pre K & Kindergarten children to practice counting, sorting, and comparing.