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4th Grade Literacy using Smartboards and iPads

=Welcome 4th Grade Teachers! On our Wiki Page you will find many different resource on how to incorporate literacy and technology. These interactive resources and activities will allow you too make learning fun in your classroom. Students will be able to enhance their knowledge and literacy skills. Please explore our Wiki and learn how to incorporate technology into your literacy curriculum. =

Interactive Literacy Resources:  1. Blog - helpful ideas on creating a blog for your classroom.


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 2. Myon.com - Interactive Digital Library (Corporation who need to buy a subscription)


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 3. Zooburst.com - Students can create their own pop-up books about any subject they wish, this could be a good way for the students to create a fun book summary.


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4. <span style="color: #9e089e; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Toondoo.com <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">- Teachers can create animated story for their students to learn from. The students can read stories and create their own story.


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<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">5. <span style="color: #00ff00; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">PBSkids.org <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">- Students can create a story with or without help from the teacher.


 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">[| http://pbskids.org/storyfactory/]

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">6. <span style="color: #00ffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Professional Learning Board <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> - Here teachers can blog about cool ways to incorporate using smart boards into the classroom. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Tips for Integration - Smartboards
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 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Watching videos on the Smartboard helps students pay attention better, rather than on the traditional Television.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Smart pens are great tools to give students the chance to interact with the lessons. The students will actually want to participate and volunteer to solve problems on the board. Like sentence labeling.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">The Smartboards are great for pulling up additional resources that go along with your lesson. These resources are easy and accessible from the Smartboard without having to go back to your computer and pull the resource up.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">As a class, you can do worksheets together, students will be able to see and want to interact while completing the worksheet. To the students, the smart boards are much more fun and exciting than regular white boards.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">You can also incorporate the Smartboard into other subject areas, for example, you can use the paint option to help students better understand geometric shapes.

<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Tips for Integration - iPads

 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">The iPads have many educational apps that can help the students increase their vocabulary skills.
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">You can find good stories and put them to the iPads Reading List for the students to read at home or during their free time.
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Students can watch videos then write up a summary, on the classroom blog, on what they learned form the video. This can all be done from the iPad.
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Use apps that will help the students with commonly confused words.
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Automated voice can help the students learn their vocabulary better than just reading it themselves.
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">The dictionary app can help students make sure that they are spelling words correctly, hear how the words are pronounced, and also you can have the students do a Word of the Day Activity.