Description: Using technologies with beginning or not-yet-readers requires a critical eye and a select group of resources. This workshop will help you find AND use great technological tools and resources with your youngest learners. We’ll explore resources as they relate to standards and also examine good implementation and management strategies. An emphasis on free tools will be kept throughout the workshop. Everyone will leave this workshop with new online resources, activities and teaching tools appropriate for learners from 4 to 8 years old. This may be appropriate for some teachers of older students with special needs as well.
We will also explore free websites and tech tools which can make learning in your class more engaging and fun without throwing standards and curriculum out the window. You will create your own website on which to collect your tools and ideas using a free web creation and hosting service.
What to Bring: Bring your laptop, (Mac, Windows or Linux) with room to save materials and files you may create or collect. Bring your laptop charger and a flash drive to ease sharing of materials or ideas. Please try to have current browser (Internet Explorer, Firefox, or similar). A healthy appetite for learning is required; a high level of technology savvy is optional.
