My Personal Learning Network

For My Personal Learning Network I contacted four people through email and one through Twitter and Tweetdeck. I first contacted Mrs. Sharon Barnette by using her email at sbarnette@bcbe.org . She had a lot of interesting techniques on how to incorporate technology into an elementary education classroom. She gave suggestions such as Promethean Planet . It has great ideas on how to use the Promethean board that is now in a lot of public schools. She also suggested United Streaming . It has culminating ideas that can be usede in Science and in Social Studies activities. Mrs. Barnette also says that a lot of her second grade students use the computer to take tests on in reading and also to practice their keyboarding skills.

Another educator that I contacted through e-mail and through Twitter was Ms. Jennifer Smith. She teaches fifth grade. You can contact her through her e-mail at jnsmith@bcbe.org or through Twitter using her name aujensmith. She suggested using a software called Kidspiration. It is a graphic organizer that allows the students to be creative and be able to put pictures on their otherwise boring looking graphic organizer.

My third educator that I contacted was Mrs. Erin Payne. She can be contacted at epayne@bcbe.org . She teaches fifth grade as well and has many ideas on incorporating technology in the classroom. She suggests using google to search for powerpoint that are posted by other educators around the world. She also says to use guided research inquiry. This is a more hands on approach in technology. It gives the students a set of websites and guided questions to find information about an assigned concept.

The last educator that I contacted was Ms. Danielle Watson. She can be contacted at dwatson@bcbe.org . She says that video clips are an easy way to incorporate technology into your classroom curriculum. It helps give the visual and auditory learners a more appealing form of instructional enhancement.
I have learneed a lot from all of these eduactors about how to incorporate technology into an elementary education classroom.