Monday, October 22, 2012

Computer Class Update: Week 6

Project #3: Creation Story Books
First Grade will be starting a project in which we will be using Microsoft Word and a Paint program on the computer to create Creation story books.  

Project #3: Passwords and Online Privacy - Part 2
Second Grade will get back their post-unit quiz on cyberbullying and we will continue our unit on Online Privacy: Why passwords are important and what information should be kept private and not shared online.  We continue working on the Media Awareness site doing the following Privacy Playground activities  The first adventure of the three cyberpigs.  We will then use this hand-out and students will go to this site: http://webkinznewz.ganzworld.com or Poptropica.  They will explore these sites seeing if they can recognize the advertising and contests. They will fill out the worksheet as they go.

Project #2: Cyber Bullying - Part 2 (cont.)
This week the 3rd through 5th graders will continue our projects learning about cyber bullying, what it is and what to do if it is happening to you or one of your friends.
Grade 3, 4 and 
Our older students will continue creating a PSA announcement about cyberbullying.  Last week we continued collecting pictures for our PSAs.  We talked about what pictures are appropriate and how to find pictures that are copyright-friendly for school use.  Their videos will answer the following questions:
  1. What is cyberbullying and what technologies do people use to bully?
  2. What are the four types of cyberbullying? Describe each.
  3. What should you do if you or a friend is being cyberbullied?
This week, the students will finish using the websites on the Cyberbullying PSA tab to look for pictures to go with their animoto videos as well as adding in picture I took in class. Once they have an acceptable amount of pictures we will begin our animoto projects, hopefully this week!

If you have any questions at all, please don't hesitate to contact me.

Have a great week!