Technology in Education: Notes from the Closet

image source: http://www.moyeamedia.com/blog/?tag=mothers-day-pictures Happy Mother's Day!   Recently we've spent some time focusing on mom.  During lab students have had the opportunity to create Mother's Day projects.  Younger students created "I like" lists for mom.  Older students chose to create PowerPoint coupon books, PowerPoint Poetry or Wordles that describe mom.  Below are the templates I used with the students and some finished products (the Wordles will be laminated with a magnet for the refrigerator). Take a look: Mothers Day Wordle Template by nmzumpano Mother’s Day PPT coupons by nmzumpano Sample Mother's Day Coupons Happymothersday Template 1st2nd by nmzumpano

Image source:  http://schools.stlucie.k12.fl.us/oak/2013/01/27/survey/ Survey Says..... This week our voice will be heard!  Students have been asked to give their opinion for a couple of different projects this week (and part of last week and next week).  Here is the lowdown: May Community Academy Culture Survey Mr. Hetrick, our Dean of Students has asked that staff members and students take a school culture survey.  Almost all of the classrooms in grades 2-8 have participated.  If you have not done so yet you can get to the survey here .  If you are not a May school member please don't take the survey!  I'll report out the findings in a future blog post. My Voice-My Vote Survey Seventh graders in room 303 continue to work on their T.E.A.M . project with Krista .  Last week four of the students worked together to create a video that explained their infographic.  After viewing the video students were asked to take t...

Happy 3rd Quarter!  We are already half way through the 2012-2013 school year! It's a Microsoft Love Fest this week!  Our kindergarten students continue to build skills through fun educational websites (see past posts for specific websites).  Students in first grade were exposed to Microsoft Word for the first time in technology lab this week.  They absolutely loved it!  Using Insight I am able to show my computer screen on each student's monitor.  With the little ones I explain to them that its like watching a tv screen. Insight allows to me to demonstrate how to launch the program, type, change my font, font color, font size and add images.  Students were excited to know that next week I will save their masterpieces and print them for classroom display.  Teachers were excited to know that they can now focus on classroom projects that involve typing. Second through sixth grade students are now creating Power Point presentations based o...