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Students of 3M, After yesterday’s introduction to Padlet (and your Padlet homework) you now have a fair amount of experience with it. Since Padlet is a digital version of a pencil and paper t-chart or chart paper with stickies, you will compare and contrast the pros and cons of both the digital and non-digital ways…
Here is the Padlet for today’s introduction: http://padlet.com/ccasal/mtme3xji5q0r Fill in what you “Know” about Padlet and what you “Want” to know. After we play around with it a bit we’ll add what we’ve “Learned” Have fun!
Here are some helpful videos to use during the 3rd grade mon journal project: Answer these questions as comments: What new things you learned from these videos? What things did these video talk about that you already knew? Anything else you would like to add? Write your comment in full and complete sentences, comment…
The following items are animated books created using Google Slides with Ms. Conklin’s class: The third graders created Information Books as a part of our non-fiction reading and writing units. They started with an “expert” topic, one they already knew a lot about. This topic required little to no research, simply background knowledge. After the…
This post is a work in progress as students finish & tweak their animated books The following items are animated books created using Google Slides with Ms. Mangan’s class: The third graders created Information Books as a part of our non-fiction reading and writing units. They started with an “expert” topic, one they already knew…
The Project: Using Google Slides 3rd grade students will create a 13 slide presentation, one month at a time, over the entire school year. The Why? It is never too early to start building a digital portfolio and not every portfolio will look the same. But one great way to show true growth and progress…
This post is a work in progress as students finish & tweak their animated books The following items are animated books created using Google Slides with Ms. Mangan’s class: The third graders created Information Books as a part of our non-fiction reading and writing units. They started with an “expert” topic, one they already knew…
3rd Graders, When we are typing we are entering our text using a particular font, or style of writing. But fonts aren’t just fonts, they are “typography” or the art or technique of arranging type in order to make language visible. Before computers there were typewriters and before that, handwriting. In order to make writing…
I have long told my students “there are only 2 things on the internet.” Two. Nothing more, nothing less. I use this, especially with elementary school students, as a way to explain, simply, the tenets of safe web use. The only two things on the internet are Good Garbage That’s it. Good and Garbage. Everything…