My First Post: Livescribe Pencasts

This is my first real post. I'm choosing to write about Livescribe Pencasts, because I just attended a training last night! I can't wait to get started using my Livescribe pen. If you have other ideas for incorporating the pen, I'd love to hear them. I'm not sure how to best utilize this technology in my first grade class.

Some ideas I've had are...

• Recording the phonemic awareness assessment
• Making interactive worksheets/centers
• Using the pen to develop fluency in writing
• Sharing classwork on the internet
• Sharing math problem solving
• Share learning with students who have been absent
• Share literacy (extra opportunities for some students to learn)
• Recording some of my SmartBoard lessons so I can take some anecdotal records without influencing the flow of the lesson
• Recording word wall words and charts (by taping small squares of the paper on my posters or purchasing the stickers from Livescribe)
• Recording our vocabulary work
• Recording our P.W.I.M.s (picture word induction model work)

I just can't wait to read some of your ideas.

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Graphing and Data

My first graders are learning about minimum, maximum, and mode. We're making comparison statements about bar graphs, pictographs, Venn diagrams, pie charts, frequency tables and more! Recently, I was able to use a spider pie chart that I found online with my class. Of course, I've gone complete overboard with the use of the "Pinterest" site to find teaching ideas. Below are a few of the pinned and repinned ideas I've found on that site...

I absolutely love the idea of graphing sight words presented by the Moffatt girls on Teacher's Notebook.

http://teachersnotebook.com/product/MoffattGirls/sight-word-graphing-pre-primer  

Kindergarten Crayon's blog at http://kindergartencrayons.blogspot.com/2011/06/chapter-4-now-lets-explore.html had a great template for your yes/no graphs.

https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=explorer&chrome=true&srcid=0B-QxpZBRIL3NMjRhMDYxMmQtMjFhYy00MmYyLWFiZWMtZmYwNWI1ODcwZTRk&hl=en_US&authkey=CLHskowB&pli=1

Froggy Friends had a project posted on Teacher's Notebook that integrates the use of pattern block shapes into graphing at http://www.teachersnotebook.com/product/kgl925/pattern-block-activities

My goal is to post some of our projects soon. Pin It Now!