My own "digital plunge"

In the first district I taught in, there was a computer lab in the elementary school which served grades K - 4. Although there weren't computers in the classrooms aside from the teacher's computer, the students had computer class once a week for half an hour. The computer teacher centered her lessons around curriculum concepts that were being taught in the classroom. For instance, if we were learning about seasons, then in computer class that week, the students might create a picture in KidPix of a tree as it would look in each of the seasons. As a matter of fact, this was how all of the specials classes worked (aside from Phys. Ed.) but from computer to library, music to art, integrated curriculum was happening.
Well, that's not the direction I had intended this post to take, so let me get on with it. I recently read and agree with the fact that a lot of times if new technology equipment is going to be purchased it tends to go to the upper grades first. The rationale, although I can't say I agree here, is that perhaps the students at that level will be better able to utilize the resources. I have decided to take the "discarded" first generation of MLTI laptops, and see what I can do with them. The readings in this course were the deciding factor to take this initiative, and it has worked wonderfully!
I began simply by creating a portaportal account and finding websites to add to it. For those of you who are not familiar with portaportal, it is basically what I would call a "baby-sitter". It allows me to create links on a home page so that students simply need to click the links, once signed into the portaportal, and reduces the amount of "searching" that a second grader would have to do. My students access this site at least once a week, and has become just a piece of our technology learning.
I have participated in one webinar and have continued to read articles as they come to find out how others are integrating computer technology at the lower elementary grades.
In addition to portaportal, my students are word processing and we are just beginning to look into the possibilities of imovie. I am excited to keep this endeavor going, and if anyone has any sites/articles that they think would be helpful, please feel free to share!