Teaching Community Helpers with Technology

Have students write a story about a community helper. They can create their own pictures or use pictures off the computer. Have them record themselves and import the pictures to create a digital story.

Little Bird Tales

Create a podcast of either students pretending to be a community helper or have them pretend to interview a community helper with one asking questions and the other answering about community helpers. Post on blog to share with class, family and other classrooms.

Podomatic

Create a word wall of community helpers for brainstorming/writing, use to begin organizing a project, use to show background knowledge the class has of community helpers.

Gliffy

Mindomo

Have students dress up like a community helper, write a narrative, and record themselves pretending they are the community helper. They can show what they do or talk about it.

Flip Camera

Video Camera

Cell Phone

Have students create powerpoint of one or all of the community helpers explaining their jobs as well as adding picturs or media. Share with others via Slide Share.

Powerpoint & Slide Share

Create community helper pictures and have the talking picture explain their career.

Blabberize

Make a poster of a specific community helper to share in the classroom or on the web.

Pixie

Glogster

Have students share what they know about community helpers and what they can find on the web about them. Students may edit each others entries and/or add their own information.

Wikispaces

Use educational videos to build background knowledge before beginning independent projects.

Youtube.com

Discovery Streaming

Teacher Tube

Brainpop.com

Have students interview community helpers working in the community. Interviews would need to be prearranged and set up by teacher.

Skype

Create a webquest teaching students about the different community helpers or have students create their own webquest.

Zunal