Online Activities

Our online class title, New Literacies and Technologies has been a great way to explore new things to bring into the classroom, it is also a little frustrating here's why...

I teach pre-k. Don't get me wrong, I love technology but I spend time working on social skills, hand strength (writing, cutting activities) and teach my students how school work. The only thing I really think I could do with them that we have been exposed through in this class is digital storytelling.

This is my son at 2 1/2 with my new iPad. 

I have three iPads for my classroom and a personal one (4). My students can have their own iPad for instruction purposes. It's great but they aren't interacting with each other one they are on them (which is a big part of Pre-k). I'd like to find out how to better use these iPads. I have the capability of downloading free Apps or purchasing them. Any ideas would be great!

I have had the students use the camera App to take pictures on our color hunts. We made a huge wall of colored pictures. They take 15-20 pictures of something red, for example. Those pictures get printed then glued onto a red 11 x 18 construction paper. We go over all of the pictures then up on the wall it goes.

There are other Apps that are letter ID but I really only put them on the StarFall ABC's App. I want to do a digital storytelling for the unit we are working on now but to get them to record a voice over is what may be hard about that.

Any ideas?