The Kindergarten team at Sandburg is rocking technology throughout the school year. Elizabeth Deuser, Stefanie Young, Kayla Adams, and Michele Rosenow started the year having their students use technology to help express their thoughts and opinions at a time when letter recognition is still new to many students. Using the Clever badges to login, kindergarteners started by recording themselves expressing thoughts and ideas using FlipGrid.com. To introduce FlipGrid and get students use to the program, they had students record their favorite color. From there, students discussed what career they would like to have when they grew up. They utilized FlipGrid for many following units. Students have even gone back on, when done with other work, to respond to a prompt again or to a classmates video.
After introducing FlipGrid, the team introduced Google Slides to their students. First, they had their students create posters on paper for a unit. For a following unit, they took the same idea but had the students create posters on Slides instead. They gave the students a template and assess to an image folder that allowed the students to dress up the Caillou and his background based on the season they studies. In an upcoming unit, students will create a 4 slide slideshow as an assessment piece for the unit.
I love how these teachers are using one tool at a time, scaffolding the learning, to introduce the kindergarteners to the new tools. Great job Elizabeth Deuser, Stefanie Young, Kayla Adams, and Michele Rosenow.
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