Last week, both 5th and 6th Grades were introduced to Photo Shop Elements. Using a Lego Avatar creator, the students manipulated both their avatar and backgrounds in Photo Shop. Other avatar creators and cool text makers appropriate for kids were shared on the Tech 117 site. In Photo Shop, the magnetic lasso, photo effects, saving …
Monthly Archive: September 2009
Sep
17
Thursday September 17
Classes are finishing up MAP testing this week. Students have utlized the IGLOO lab and Tech lab 117. Thank you to all of the students, parents, and teachers who have made these testing weeks go smoothly. The students have finished the Welcome to the Web activity. It is now an expectatation that students have usernames …
Sep
12
Friday September 11
Have a wonderful weekend. Enjoy this tech toon!
Sep
09
Wednesday September 9
…an interactive web-based learning activity By working our way through this web site and taking part in the exciting challenges and activities, we will learn all about the Internet. “Welcome to the Web” is an interactive set of web pages which can be used to teach children (and adults) about the Internet. These can be …
Sep
08
Tuesday September 8
After a long weekend, classes returned to Tech Encore and “Typing Tuesday”. This will happen each week. Using Custom Typing, students will be keyboarding portions of text that is uploaded from a variety of sources; textbooks, newspapers, speeches, literature. During this exercise, students will be aware of proper keyboarding techniques such as hand and finger …
Sep
03
Thursday September 3
Both 5th and 6th Grades completed their Comic Life activity today. I look forward to looking at them and finding the best way for us to share. To connect our Comic Life technology lesson and discussion about conversations, dialogue, and speaking, to our English, Grammar and Writing skills, students went to Brain Pop and watched …
Sep
02
Wednesday, September 2
Today, the 5th/6th Grade classes created comics using Comic Life. From the software webpage, “Comic Life lets you create astounding comics, beautiful picture albums, how-tos… and more! The easy-to-use interface integrates seamlessly with your photo collection or iSight. Drag in your pictures, captions, Lettering text (‘ka-blam!‘) and speech balloons and your work is done!“ Using …
Sep
01
Tuesday, September 1
Today was our first “Typing Tuesday”! Although we are encouraged to practice proper keyboarding techniques every day, Tuesdays will be the day that we focus from week to week on our progress of accuracy leading up to a WPM goal. Individually, students will keyboard at their own pace. What is most important in beginning keyboarding …
Sep
01
Monday, August 31
In classes today, All Students (5th/6th) manipulated photos taken in Photo Booth and imported them into iPhoto. Albums were created, tags (names) we given to each photo and photos were edited using the editing options available in iPhoto.
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