Can’t believe that she is able to do this with such young students! I’m impressed!
Try Something Different In Class!
Apathy is a disease among students, cure it with creativity!
Can’t believe that she is able to do this with such young students! I’m impressed!
Try Something Different In Class! 
I agree with her that third graders are the best typists. They hunt and peck, and it becomes clear really quickly who has had experience typing before. Great ideas and I love the global interactions!
I am still a hen-pecker as my mother calls it. I don’t use home keys but I can proudly say that I am typing this right now and not looking at the keyboard. lol. 🙂
She has a lot of great ideas! I really like her integration of WallWisher–it is something I have heard about but never used. I checked out the website, and I think I am hooked!
Good! Glad to hear!
Pretty cool! I like to find out about cross-currilcular assignments, and this one included writing, technology and geography!
I agree. I found it to be very inspiring. I’ve listened to a couple of her other Podcasts and she’s got some good ideas.
I love the international collaboration between classes at different grade levels. What a great way to learn from each other and begin to build global awareness in young children.
-Barry
Agreed! You know I’d never really known any of the wonderful tools that can be utilized on GoogleDocs. You really learn something new everyday! 🙂
I would love to do this with my second graders. How did you get in contact with the other teachers that you collaborated with?
I admire this teacher for embracing new ways to write with her students. It makes sense that using this technology would save time with instantly receiving student work by email rather than collecting and reading papers.
I was also wondering how she located the classrooms to collaborate with.