I really enjoy learning new tech tricks, keyboard shortcuts, or anything that will help me to be more efficient with my time or digital lesson designs. One of my all-time-favorite tricks is creating stacks of objects. As a nerd, I like to see the animation of duplicating objects, grouping, and aligning Continue Reading →
#GAfE4Littles chats have been occurring since August of 2016! We have had a number of discussions on a variety of topics from growth mindset to HyperDocs to discussing the 4 Cs and many more! Check out the archive to previous #GAfE4Littles chats HERE! Chats are twice a month on the first and third Continue Reading →
Part of our morning ritual in kindergarten is to check the weather outside. Someone’s classroom job is to open the door and peek his or her head out as the class sings the weather watcher song that is to the tune of Frère Jacques (I did not create the weather Continue Reading →
There is literally a whole other world out there of people in the education field who are collaborating, sharing ideas, and chatting about current events and new resources. On Twitter, people are sharing about GAfE 4 Littles by using the hashtag #gafe4littles in their Tweets. If you create a Twitter, you Continue Reading →
One of the discussions for #GAfE4Littles Twitter chats was dedicated to learning about how we were integrating technology with our Littles. A TON of resources including websites, apps and more were shared during that chat. A list of these resources was generated and is continuing to grow! Check out Continue Reading →
Share YOUR resources and find MORE!! So many templates are shared on the #GAfE4Littles hashtag, but it is can be easy to “miss them” if we are not checking the hashtag regularly. Fill out the Google Form below if you have a template you would like to share with others. Continue Reading →
Often times I try putting myself into my kindergarten students’ shoes and wonder how they embrace the world. Approaching a keyboard can be intriguing for students because they contain letters and numbers, items that little kids are learning about. Since the letters on the keyboard are out of their alphabetical order, Continue Reading →
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Day two of TK (transitional kindergarten) using GAfE, and the kids were already in spreadsheets! Credit for that fact goes to the EdTech specialist and spreadsheet queen, Alice Keeler. She was so curious about what the kids could do in Google Sheets and passed along her Pixel Art template. We were Continue Reading →
The first time my spring transitional kindergarten (TK) students used GAfE was about two and a half months into their school year. They started with me in January, and they did their first GAfE activity in mid March in the computer lab. They had gotten practice with using the mouse once a Continue Reading →