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**LEARN Elementary Technology Academy November 12, 2009

Cool Tools for Primary Teachers ** **__Participants__**: Please enter your information below. Don't forget to SAVE when you are finished!

Oil City || 5th Grade Teacher || jwatson@mail.ocasd.org || Oil City || 5th Grade Teacher || kfulmer@mail.ocasd.org ||
 * **Name** || **School/Organization** || **Title/Position** || **email** ||
 * Christine Carucci || IU#5 || Supervisor: Training and Consultation || christine_carucci@iu5.org ||
 * Nicole Hill || DuBois Middle School || Professional Development/Communications Teacher || nhill@dasd.k12.pa.us ||
 * Sara Haines || Brookville Area School || 5th Grade Teacher || shaines@basd.us ||
 * Rhonda Shook || CL Elementary || First Grade Teacher || rshook@clasd.net ||
 * Roxane Lewis || Redbank Valley || Third Grade Teacher || rlewis@redbankvalley.net ||
 * Melinda Burton || Redbank Valley School District || Elementary Technology (K-6) || mburton@redbankvalley.net ||
 * Linda Barnes || Brookville Area School District || 6th grade teacher || lbarnes@basd.us ||
 * Kristin Huffman || Redbank Valley || 1st Grade Teacher || khuffman@redbankvalley.net ||
 * Jane Watson || Hasson Heights
 * Annette King || Redbank Valley || Second Grade Teacher || aking@redbankvalley.net ||
 * Keith Fulmer || Hasson Heights
 * Amy Garbacz || Oil City || teacher || agarbacz@mail.ocasd.org ||
 * Carrie Richey || OCASD || Media Specialist/Technology Integrator || crichey@mail.ocasd.org ||
 * Joe Caffrey || Oakland - OCASD || 3rd Grade Teacher || jcaffrey@mail.ocasd.org ||
 * Larua Heasley || Redbank Valley || 1st Grade Teacher || lheasley@redbankvalley.net ||
 * Gretchen Kunselman || Redbank Valley || 1st Grade Teacher || gkunselman@redbankvalley.net ||
 * Abigail Stafford || IU5 || Coordinator for Instructional Technology Support || abigail_stafford@iu5.org ||
 * Annette King || Redbank Valley || Second Grade Teacher || aking@redbankvalley.net ||
 * Valerie Sloan || Redbank Valley || 3rd Grade Teacher || vsloan@redbankvalley.net ||



[] Curricular Resources Integrate 80,000 concept-level video clips, virtual labs, interactives, audio files, lesson plans. [] Find all Web 2.0 Tools and Applications on one page, get a short description, compare, read reviews, see what people are saying about each one on the web, see screencasts and more. [|www.kindersite.org] The **Kindersite** has 1,000s of graded educational and fun content specifically for the 2 to 8 year group. [|www.teachersfirst.com] [] Tips, tricks, ideas and help with using web 2.0 technologies and edublogs [] [|www.spellingcity.com] Great site to practice spelling words
 * TeachersFirst** is a rich collection of lessons, units, and web resources designed to save teachers time by delivering just what they need in a practical, user-friendly, and free format.
 * Verizon Thinkfinity** is a Web site created through a partnership between the Verizon Foundation and the nation’s leading educational and literacy organizations that contains tens of thousands of free, standards-based lesson plans and student materials in every core subject area and grade level (K-12) plus adult and family literacy.

Reading ** [] [] [] []
 * Reading Rockets** offers a wealth of reading strategies, lessons, and activities designed to help young children learn how to read and read better.
 * Pennsylvania's One Book, Every Young Child** program highlights the importance of early literacy development in preschoolers ages 3 to 6.
 * Carnegie Library** of Pittsburgh: Kids

Math ** [] [] Designed to "illuminate" the new NCTM Principles and Standards for School Mathematics with interactive math tools. [] Animated, interactive math dictionary with definitions of over 600 common math terms in simple language. - Animated & interactive [] A digital library containing Java applets and activities for K-12 mathematics. Great for interactive whiteboards!
 * Sesame** **Street** uses animation, puppets, and live actors to stimulate young children's minds, improve their letter and word recognition, basic arithmetic, geometric forms and more for grades pre-k - 1.

[] The **Pennsylvania Early Childhood Education Standards** are research-based standards that identify key learning areas of development for children and are reflected in the Core Body of Knowledge competencies. Newly updated! [] The **Pennsylvania Department of Education** is pleased to announce that its new Web Site is now available for public use. [] Student Center Activities from **Florida Center of Reading Research**. During 2004-2007, a team of teachers at FCRR collected ideas and created Student Center Activities for use in kindergarten through fifth grade classrooms using the 5 Big Components of Reading.
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Student Collaboration ** [] [] Online Mind Mapping: **MindMeister** - free web-based collaborative mind mapping tool for brainstorming and project-managment [] Use **Webspiration** to map out ideas, organize with outlines and collaborate online with teams or colleagues.
 * EtherPad** is the only web-based word processor that allows people to work together in really real-time.



Digital Storytelling ** [] Narrate your pictures with text to tell a story. [] Digital Storytelling resources



Presentation ** [] Upload and share your PowerPoint presentations, Word documents and Adobe PDF Portfolios on **SlideShare**. [] Create beautiful presentations, access them from anywhere, and share them with the world. [] Alternative to PowerPoint Tell your story anyway you like. Add photos, music, video, and audio, and share it publicly or privately in an instant. []
 * Wordle** is a toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide.

**Wikis**

http://iu5slc.wikispaces.com/ http://iu5elemlitcouncil.wikispaces.com/ [] wikis in education