Wrap-Up

Last Class Of The Year

Kindergarten

You’ve learned a lot about using the internet for fun and learning this year, but don’t forget while you’re having fun this summer that it can be a dangerous thing if you are not careful.  Watch this video starring Garfield and friends, then do the activities with your teacher on the SMART board.  If there is time left after the lesson, it is yours to play any game you want to from the Links page.

1st

You’ve learned a lot about using the internet for fun and learning this year, but don’t forget while you’re having fun this summer that it can be a dangerous thing if you are not careful.  Watch this video starring Garfield and friends, then do the activities with your teacher on the SMART board.  If there is time left after the lesson, it is yours to play any game you want to from the Links page.

2nd

You’ve learned a lot about using the internet for fun and learning this year, but don’t forget while you’re having fun this summer that it can be a dangerous thing if you are not careful.  Watch this video starring Clicky and friends, then hang out at the website for 15 minutes learning about cyber safety.  If there is time left after the lesson, it is yours to play any game you want to from the Links page or go to Lab Share.

3rd, 4th, and 5th

You have 3 jobs today, then free time.  Here they are in order.

1. Watch this video that “raps up” your internet safety lessons from this year.
2. Take this typing test 3 times and be ready to tell your teacher your best score (it’s it the number in the blue circle).
3. Tell your teacher your best typing score to get the post test.  When you have completed it, turn it in with your name on top and have fun.

During free time, each student may print one page.  If you want to print multiple pictures, use MS word to arrange them onto one page or to stretch a small image onto a full page.

What a great year!  In my 7 years at Fremont Elementary, I don’t think I’ve had such an engaging and content-filled school year as this one.   With the help of the students at Fremont, we have learned about everything from how computers work to using computers to talk to the rest of the world in a safe and polite way.  Now let’s take a look back at

my top 5 favorite activities from this year

1. NetSmartzKids.org-Router’s Birthday Surprise (2nd-3rd grade)
   Clicky and his pals at NetSmartzKids were planning a party for their friend and they had to solve some serious internet safety problems in order to have a great and safe party.
2. File Management SMART Board presentation (4th-5th grade)
   Yeah, this is pretty nerdy, but teaching kids how to keep their files organized was a great interactive learning opportunity.  It’s easy to get frustrated with a cluttered computer, so hopefully this will help.
3. ePals.com (3rd Grade)
   When we had too many students enrolled at Gaggle.net to do the normal digital citizenship stuff, I thought we were ruined.  Then a colleague at Boyd Elementary introduced me to ePals.com, an online international collaboration site where students can study other cultures by directly interacting with other students around the world.  We will definitely do this again next year, maybe with the whole school.
4. Photosynth
   After all years here, I finally found a site that makes working with pictures interesting to me.  This was a really neat site for showing students what you can do with free software on the internet.  Click here to check out our Synth from field day at our home page
5. Weather Research Unit (K-5)
   To show students how computers relate directly to their lives, we spent a long time looking for ways that computers can help us solve everyday problems.  Younger students had fun researching normal weather conditions while the older grades took on everything from choosing weather appropriate clothes to emergency weather preparedness.

Okay, as a part of out economics lesson, and in conjunction with SPS MIGs (Tech 1.e) and ITSE’s NETS, I present to you

HOT DOG BUSH!!!

DIRECTIONS

1.  Go to Internet Explorer Web Browswer
2.  Go to http://www.voki.com
3.  Click   with gaggle.net
4.  Click create
5.  Pick your character
6.  Dress your character
7.  Add bling if you like
8.  Add a background
9.  Give it a voice (folder)
10.  Publish
11.  Name it your first name

5th Grade

Databases are awesome, let’s play a game of Whodunnit!

1st Grade

Your computer has lots of parts, let’s talk about them and then play EM Games!

2nd Grade

Typing is hard, try these games to get better at it!

3rd Grade

This week in the lab we are looking at an interesting job in computers: Graphic Designer. A graphic designer works with images (or graphics) to show meaning or emotion.  One of the things graphic designers do is use eye-catching pictures and interesting fonts to make advertisements for magazines, TV, and the internet.  We are going to look at some interesting graphic design work today and then create our own graphic design projects.

5th Grade

• Practice typing on Mavis Beacon or TTL3.
• Watch BrainPop video about Graphic Design, then use the webquest at http://kathydoty.com/colonies/13colonies.html to complete your groups’ worksheet and create a brochure about your colony.

4th Grade

• Practice typing on TTL 3.
• Explore the website http://pbskids.org/dontbuyit/.   When you have discovered 3 traits that make an eye-catching advertisement, create one on KidPix or MS Paint then send it to a friend on Gaggle.net.  Add my address (tmiano@gaggle.net) in the Cc box.

3rd Grade

• Play EM Games for 15 minutes.
• Create a Pop Star at PBS’s site, Don’t Buy It!
• Use KidPix or MS paint to draw a self portrait to advertise your biggest talent.
• Use your ePals account to send it to a friend.  Add my name in the Cc box.

1st Grade

1. Open kid pix.
2. Click “add” then find your teacher’s folder in Lab Share.
3. Click on the folder that says 2012.
4. Change the File Type box from bmp to jpeg
5. Click on the pictures until you find yours.
6. Play with it on KidPix.
7. Print and color when you are done!

4th Grade

Now that you have an email account, people are going start sending you spam.  It’s your job as a good digital citizen to know how to spot spam and advertising.  Let’s learn some of the tricks advertisers use at PBS’s website, Don’t Buy It!, then create your own ad using MS paint, then send it to a friend on gaggle.

5th Grade

www.wix.com/tmiano/13-colonies

Fremont Chatroom

3rd Grade

http://www.carnegiecyberacademy.com/funStuff/quiz/academyQuiz.html

http://www.wiredkids.org/kids/personal_information_safety/email_safety/index.html

http://www.ePals.com

2nd Grade

http://www.brainpopjr.com/socialstudies/citizenship/rightsandresponsibilities/

Bill of Students’ Rights

Together as a class, draft a Bill of Students’ Rights. You may want to review and discuss the differences between rights and responsibilities before drafting a set of rights. Many schools and states list students’ rights, and you may wish to bring in examples. Write the Bill of Students’ Rights together and post them in your classroom. Discuss the responsibilities each student has to uphold and protect their rights. Then draft a set of rules or class laws that protect students’ rights. For example, a right might be to express opinions and a class law might be to always be quiet and respectful when someone expresses his or her opinions. Write the rules or laws together and post them in your classroom.

BONUS! Design campaign posters!

Today we are going to look at some telecommunications terms and use a chat room to figure out what they mean.  With the help of the chat room, every student will complete the telecommunications Worksheet.  Please use the links by your teacher’s name to get to your chat room.

Caster- gaggle.net (When you are finished,  use the Fremont Chat Room to talk with your classmates and practice using emoticons and abbreviations)

Bowman- gaggle.net (When you are finished,  use the Fremont Chat Room to talk with your classmates and practice using emoticons and abbreviations)

Sharp- Fremont Chat Room (When you are finished, navigate your browser to Net Smartz Kids to watch movies and play games about how to use telecommunications properly)

Reynolds- Fremont Chat Room (When you are finished, navigate your browser to Net Smartz Kids to watch movies and play games about how to use telecommunications properly)

Chastain- Fremont Chat Room

Cantrell- Fremont Chat Room

Davis- Fremont Chat Room

In small groups, you will each get a piece of the definition of a telecommunications term and use the chat room to put your definitions together so you can fill out worksheet

Hello Fremont!  I am not here today, so here are the things you can do while I am gone.

1st Grade

First, you will all watch the story “Arthur’s Computer Disaster” together.

http://www.speakaboos.com/story/arthurs-computer-disaster/

In this story, Arthur causes a big problem that could have been avoided.  Can you think of ways he could have kept the problem from happening?  Discuss them with the teacher.  Then use Kid Pix to draw a picture of Arthur doing the right thing.  When you are finished, print your story.  Now you may choose to spend the rest of your time either coloring your pictures or listening to more stories and playing games at http://www.speakaboos.com/

2nd Grade

With help from the teacher, you will spend your time on the carpet looking at all the computer parts in this very, very messy room.   Then you will go to your assigned seats and search the room for all 12 hidden parts.  Click here when you are finished to choose another game about computers. You may also go to the typing links on the Fremont page and choose a typing game if you want to.

Research and File Management

This week we will “access prior knowledge to pose questions for investigation of an authentic problem” (3-5.3.a) and learn how to save work as files on our computer.  By the end of the week, students will be able to do two things: Create research questions to help them solve everyday problems and save files and put them into appropriate folders.  Here’s how…

Grades 3-5

We will look at a SMART Board activity on creating helpful research questions.   Then we will look at the different ways to find answers to those question using computer resources.  Before we do that, let’s create some folders.

Creating Files and Folders

Here’s how to find your class folder:

1. Open  “Lab Share”
2. Open “Student Work – SAVE HERE”
3. Open your class and teacher’s folder (eg. “1 Davis” means Ms. Davis’ 1^st Grade Class).

Follow these steps to create a new folder:

1. Right click on the number of your folder.
2. Left click the word “rename”.
3. Type your first and last name with correct capitalization.
4. Press enter.

Follow these steps to create a sub folder:

1. Open the folder with your name.
2. Follow the same steps from above to create a new folder.
3. Title this folder “Research”.

2nd Grade

1st Grade

Kindergarten