Websites!

Do we start with blogs or FrontPage?
Students:
You have been asking about making Websites and blogs to go on the Internet.
Here are some rules:
This year we have used Classblogmeister for you to post your thoughts, ideas, and concerns. This blog is private so remember to make your blog private and ask for help [...]

FrontPage and Making Digital Files:

Microsoft FrontPage allows you to create WebPages! My students have been working on many Word documents, slideshows, brochures, and spreadsheets throughout the school year. Now, it is time to link these documents to FrontPage. Below is the teacher index page where all the students’ WebPages are linked.
For each student:
Each student has created one WebPage where [...]

Informal Survey on Technology

It is always interesting to read what students think about school and what they consider their favorite “thing to do” regarding technology. So, I surveyed my students to find out:
1. What was their favorite “thing” to do in the media center or in tech class. They are as follows:

Creating brochures
Working on the newspaper
Typing Stories
Working on [...]

Add Color to Your Posts!

Attention fourth and fifth grade students:
Add color to your posts!
If you type your posts using Microsoft Word, you are able to use color and the color does transfer to your post “as is” if you have a blog created with Blogger. https://www.blogger.com/start
Or if you have a blog at http://www.wordpress.com
Titles can be added using different [...]

What is Myspace and why are children interested in it?

According to Wikipedia, the definition of myspace is as follows:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MySpace
MySpace is a popular social networking website offering an interactive, user-submitted network of friends, personal profiles, blogs, groups, photos, music and videos for teenagers and adults internationally.
The following is how Wikipedia defines social network service:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_network_service#Social_networks_for_social_good
A social network service uses software to build online social networks for [...]

Who’s on First?

This week we watch a skit created and performed by Vivian, Jasmine, and Julliana.
Here is something you might like, a skit by Abbott and Costello!

Publisher

We have been working on brochures using Publisher, adding images and researching facts about famous people. It is quite interesting to watch my students work helping each other and creating newspapers, brochures, plays, and books. They are interested in writing and creating without being told this is an assignment. Instead, they arrive early morning to [...]

Our media center early morning before the students arrive. We have 12 computers that serve approximately 243 fourth and fifth grade students. Class sizes are about 20 or more students on the average.
Our students love coming in working on various activities with their teachers and tech staff. They are encourage to create powerpoints, inspiration projects, [...]