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Visit the TeacherWeb® videos to learn about the features, modifications, and customizations available on your website. Click here to learn more. Announcements small medium large <BR> TECHNOLOGY ANNOUNCEMENTS: <p><font size=3.5>Welcome to the 2011-2012 School Year in Technology Class! The technology program provides opportunities for students to develop an understanding of technology tools that will help to enhance learning, promote creativity, strengthen problem solving and heighten the ability to access and communicate information. Classes meet one time per week.</P> <p>Projects are often theme-based and reinforce taught concepts while exposing students to real-world skills to be used in continued education and relevant to the workplace.</p> <p><font size=5><center><b>Skills and Projects</B></center></font></P> <br> <p><font size=3.5> In <i>Kindergarten,</i> students work on identifying letters and numbers on a keyboard. They learn to open a multimedia program and explore the toolbars. Kindergartners open an existing template and create their own masterpieces. We explore the pencil and paint bucket in our “What Plants Need” project. Kindergarteners have used the thickness tool and loves changing colors! Students have viewed web pages with the teacher to see examples of art using shades of one color. Students practiced the “shades of blue” technique by painting our own blue shade pictures of the sea. The class made shapes and even made caterpillars using circles. Our next project include using stamps to accent templates and illustrating and entering text in pages of our class book!</P> <p><i>First graders</i> have continued to explore toolbars and have viewed web pages with the teacher on constellations. We looked at the Big Dipper and Little Dipper. Students connected the stars in their constellation pictures. Students visited a web site on pumpkins, selected their favorite pumpkin and “carved” a jack-o-lantern, using their mouse skills. What fantastic jack-o-lanterns we had! Future projects include applying their knowledge of the five senses and opening an existing project and adding graphics and text.</P> <p><i>Second grade</i> began the year with a project based on Eric Carle’s <u>The Very Lonely Firefly</u> and develop their mastery of the toolbars by making their Very Friendly Friend Fireflies. We have also created text on ways to be a friendly friend. We hope you stop by to see the second grade bulletin board outside of the Technology Room. Students then created a Very Busy Spider and connected the two insect slides for a mini-show. Second grade reviews the parts of a computer and more about the location of each of the keys on the keyboard. Our next projects include entering text in Making Friends and writing Tall Tales to further develop word processing skills.</P> <p>In <i>third grade,</i> students have learned to move, place text, use arrow keys in the ABC Order List. In our next theme project, we have learned about jobs and explored qualities of a good worker using selected web sites with the teacher. Students are developing their word processing skills by entering sentences, using delete and backspace keys, learning about spacing after punctuation, selecting and changing font size and color in our Help Wanted poster project. Our next project includes using a multimedia program to develop communication in technology skills.</P> <p><i>Fourth grade</I> have been working on many projects to cut, copy and paste letters, words, phrases, and complete sentences in various projects. Selecting, deleting and inserting text and clip art have also been practiced while using the Internet to research facts to include in our projects. Fourth and <i>fifth grades</I> use the Type to Learn Program to practice keyboarding skills. Fifth graders have used ordered and unordered list options, and learned how to use the thesaurus. Students are expected to use spell check in all documents. Students have had a Web Scavenger Hunt Project in which students needed to find information by following the hyperlinks included with the questions page. Fourth and Fifth grade future projects include developing PowerPoint and Excel skills.</P> <p><i>Sixth grade</i> have developed research and communication skills and learned Internet and world wide web terminology. Students saw how location codes can tell more about the sources of information. Sixth graders became web critics to determine the validity of the information and that not all information or sites are created equal. Students bookmarked web pages and researched information following hyperlinks to obtain information in the sixth grade web scavenger hunt. Students then found their favorite site about healthy pets. Students organized this information into a web page they created and put the link of the healthy pet site into their web page. Future projects include further work in Excel, Word, and Powerpoint.</P> <p><i>Seventh graders</i> have been developing research skills and using the information to infer the best time to see peak color at select locations. Students use appropriate tools and technologies to find the changes of leaf colors and the role climate and elevation play by researching data of leaf color change and leaf drop rates through parts of the United States. After tracking this data, students compiled information into a spreadsheet using Excel and graphed the data. Seventh graders took this information and applied it into a problem solving situation. Seventh grade also have been practicing their web page skills and have created a Web Page information, Penguin page and their favorite religious person page. All pages included gif or jpeg graphic files and hyperlinks to other sites. Some pages had ordered lists and marquees! Future projects include work in developing Word, Excel and Powerpoint skills.</P> <p><i>Eighth grade</i> have become entrepreneurs in a simulation project in which they run their own restaurant. Students compiled a survey and listed those results using spreadsheet skills and focused on style, paste, header, hide/unhide rows. Students took this data and transformed it into a graph and imported this file into Word as part of a letter which explained the new business to an investor. Students designed their own letterhead and set up the letter using proper formatting. Eighth graders then used drawing tools to draft a floor plan. Students used templates to design their own menus. Our next part of the project will enable students to use Excel to calculate their earnings. Our business ideas really have taken shape! Future projects include work in developing Word, Excel and Powerpoint skills, in addition to an animated movie. Students will be able to participate on our class wiki.<p> <br> Automatically clean input to optimize for the web. Or, would you like to view and optionally restore one of these previous versions? Password: Forgot your password?

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