Welcome/Overview

• Article about preschool study on children’s technology use
• Center for Children and Technology
• Article about the SCSC Preschool Project.
• The instructional strategies we will explore today:

o        Providing recognition

o        Cues, questions, advanced organizers

o        Nonlinguistic representation

o        Homework and practice

Providing recognition  

Review making a slideshow of class activities or student work using:

   If you need photos, try Pics4Learning or Flickr's Creative Commons.

• Google Presentations
• Picture Trail
• One True Media

Cues, questions, advanced organizers

• Glogster.edu poster 

Nonlinguistic representation

• Using PowerPoint to make flashcards for wiki or iPod
• Links to websites

o        National Library of Virtual Manipulatives

o        Illuminations

Homework and practice

·         Links to activity websites

o        Kindersite

o        Online games and activities (click Games & Activities)

o        PBS Kids Games

o        Internet4Classrooms

Work on classroom activity

·         Activity sheet

Next steps

• February visits
• Online parent survey November to April