NetSmartz Workshop
We’ll be working on presentations second semester. For the most part we will be working within Microsoft PowerPoint but we will also use OpenOffice Impress and Google Apps from time to time. Before we get started (unless you had me in class Friday in which case I hope you learned something to help you on this) we’re going to do a pre-test so I can see what you remember if you were in my class two years ago or have learned on your own.
Several of our best typists have or will soon have completed all 25 Type to Learn 3 missions. This is a fun way to keep those skills sharp. When the students complete mission 25, I issue them a ForAllBadges badge that they can export to their Open Badging Backpack. All I need for this is a unique email address for each student. It is fine if they use yours as long as you don’t intend to use Open Badges for your own online learning resumé.
Congratulations to Jesse (6th grade) for being the first to complete Type To Learn 3 Mission 25, the final lesson of the program! She beat the game!
Also working on Mission 25 is Rachel (5th grade) who should be finished very soon. Students working on the final ten lessons are:
4th grade–Blaise, Keeley, Rebecca, Darci
5th grade–Kristen, Rachel
6th grade–Reagan, Daniel, Ken, Shelby
We are also doing free-choice projects. These projects can be completed using any creative program on our computers EXCEPT Tux Paint. This includes any Microsoft Office program, Paint, or Gimp 2. Get your creative on!
Next Tuesday, the second and third grade classes will be learning how to do live video streaming. The second grade Readers Theater will perform for the third grade audience and it will be broadcast and recorded live at CCSpti on Ustream.tv
Students are working on posters to advertise the upcoming Transforming Lives concert. The winner from each class will receive a free dress-down week. The overall winning poster will be printed and posted around town. Students are allowed to use different programs to create their posters, one of which is TuxPaint which is the most popular among the younger grades. Most older students are using Microsoft Publisher. These TuxPaint creations are works in progress (WIP) created last week. I will post updates and Publisher projects soon.
C:\Documents and Settings\student\Application Data\TuxPaint\saved
Computer A:
Computer B:
Computer C:
Computer D:
Computer E:
Computer F:
Computer G:
Computer H:
Computer I:
Computer J:
Computer K:
Laptop 2:
No TuxPaint entry
Laptop 5:
No TuxPaint Entry
Laptop 9:
No TuxPaint Entry
Laptop 10:
No TuxPaint Entry
Laptop 11:
No TuxPaint entry
Laptop 12:
No TuxPaint entry
Not everyone did a fantastic job on the Spreadsheet Test. We will be reviewing those in class this week. I’m not satisfied that we’re ready to leave spreadsheets as I had planned, so everyone will be taking the Entrance Quiz as an Exit Quiz. Anyone not passing the Exit Quiz will be retaking the Spreadsheet Test again next week. Students who pass the Exit Quiz will be free to move on to creating their Transforming Lives posters and videos for the Advertising Contest. Poster winners will be printed and used around town as advertising. Video winners will be uploaded to the CCS YouTube channel and used on Facebook, Twitter, and other Social Media promoting the Second Annual Transforming Lives.
Please complete the Exit Exam below to be excused from further Spreadsheet instruction.
7th Grade Rust Week
By Friday all assignments should be completed through:
We are starting new units in Science and Language Arts, so please review the information at the beginning of the units to prepare for what is coming up and how long things are going to take.
Do you know your spreadsheets as well as a Kindergartner? Submit your test now to be graded by Mizzu. If you are not one of her students, please submit your email address instead of your computer designation to receive your results.
Use your scroll bar to get to the Submit button or Mizzu will not receive your test!
Sometimes websites have great games for kids but the site itself is not user-friendly. The FreeTypingGame.net website has a lot of great material, but the games are surrounded by tons of off-site links (very easy to lose a child on the Internet). So, I borrowed the embed code to their car game, because the boys in preschool love to race cars, and we will see how the game works out for us. Click the link to load the game.
| http://media.freetypinggame.net/swfs/game14a.swf?lessonnum=1
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| Please click link to load game in a full window.
The game is ready when the play button is visible. |
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