In this podcast Anna and Helen share their experience at ISTE (International Society for Technology in Education) in Denver, Colorado. They also share different links and resources that teachers can incorporate in their lessons or pass down to their students. Most of them are FREE, however my favorite one is the Toddler Timer and it cost 99 cents. This timer consist of four different timers which are:
1.The Quiet timer: if you put a child in time out or if you tell the class we are not going to recess until everyone has been quiet for five minutes… you start the timer and it starts counting down. If you’re too loud the timer STOPS counting down. The louder you are the longer the time is.
2.The slow timer: you can control the countdown speed. You can set it for ten minutes but if the kids are acting up you can slow it back down where you can make a second last a little bit longer OR vice versa, if the class is being good you can speed up the timer and make a second last a half of second.
3.The sharing timer: Use it between a group (2-6 kids) of kids that are sharing something (slide, toy, station..etc). Set the timer, Each child is represented by a little animal so when you start the timer the little animal pops up in the middle of the screen to let them know how much time they have left. THEN once they have run out of time it goes to the next animal to let them know its there turn. It eliminate the whole “you’ve been taking to long…”. Everyone has the same amount of time.
4.Activity timer: You can set it for seconds. Most timers are set for minutes. You have the options to do a voice countdown too.
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