As with every year, the first week of school in the lab is spent working out the kinks in our day to day computer routines and introducing or reintroducing students to new procedures and software.
With first and second grades, we reviewed how to log in to the computers and set up their accounts to load the correct system preferences.
All 2nd – 4th grade students are using new passwords this year. We distributed those on the first day of computer class and along with their usernames, they will be expected to remember this information to use not only to log in to the computers, but to a number of online resources like Study Island, Custom Typing, TCI, First Class, and our class wikis.
Third and fourth graders began learning how to use Custom Typing, our online keyboarding instruction tool. Each week, 3rd and 4th grade students will be visiting the second computer lab for 30 minutes to practice their keyboarding skills. Once we are comfortable with how all our students are using and understanding the program, we will allow them to use it at home if they wish to get in some extra practice.
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