1. Collaborating with Technology Early Childhood

2. Agenda Introductions What is collaboration Technology –Livescribe pens –iPads –Digital Cameras –Skype Let’s Get Started

3. “ALONE WE CAN DO SO LITTLE; TOGETHER WE CAN DO SO MUCH.” – HELEN KELLER

4. What is collaboration? How do you collaborate? How does collaboration benefit you?

5. What does collaboration look like in the Pre-K classroom? How will it benefit the students?

6. Livescribe Pens

7. Livescribe Collaboration Ideas Have a collaboration icon where you use discussion questions. Encourage students to share their thoughts with the whole group. Encourage the students to create their own questions or wonderings.

8. iPads

9. Sock Puppets Children use a digital puppet show as a way to use their new vocabulary during a study of rocks and fossils.

10. Digital Cameras

11. News Reporter and Photographer The weekly News Report and Photographer collaborated about which pictures to print and what they wanted to say about them.

12. Skype

13. Living or Nonliving Comparing Gardens

14. Authors Who Skype with Classes (for free!)

15. Collaborative Projects Square of Life Lost Ladybug Project Seasonal Changes Through Our Eyes

16. Let’s Start Collaborating!

17. Gail Laubenthal glaubent@austinisd.org & Robbie Polan rpolan@austinisd.org