CHVE Technology: This Week in Tech (2)...

CHVE Technology

What are students doing in technology? Each week, come here to take a peek...The tools students use: CHVE Links.

Kindies - SheppardSoftware.com: Practiced number sense using a fantastic primary Math site (great for older kids as well)

1st Grade - Mrs. Wilkinson

Dance Mat Mondays!
Education City: click here to gain access at home.
Wixie: Began researching a topic through Tumblebooks. Students looked at the section on Non-Fiction and Videos to investigate something they are curious about. After taking notes, the students followed a template on how to build an online book in Wixie. Contact me and Ask for help if your child lost his password to get into Wixie. Students did not finish this book and will continue during the next rotation. Eventually all "books" will be linked so students can view each other's work.

2nd Grade - Mrs. Feltz

Dance Mat Mondays!
Began 2 days with Math Lines
Education City: click here to gain access at home. Goal: self-monitor: Their job was to look at the assessment chart of their Education City activities and find a score they would like to improve. Their work syncs with the scoreboard giving them immediate feedback on their performance. If a parent or teacher ever wants to the scoreboard, please let Mr. Krulish know and he will give you directions.
Wixie: Began researching a topic through Tumblebooks. Students looked at the section on Non-Fiction Books and Science Videos to investigate something they are curious about. After taking notes, the students followed a template on how to build an online book in Wixie. Contact me and Ask for help if your child lost his password to get into Wixie. Students did not finish this book and will continue during the next rotation. Eventually all "books" will be linked so students can view each other's work.

3rd Grade - Mr. Weiss

Dance Mat Mondays!
Worked on a book poster in ComicLife & learned the new way to save ComicLife projects in GoogleDrive. Students designed posters of their favorite book. They also learned to use the 3 different safe image searches for kids. (Click here to see "Image search 1, 2, and 3"). Learned some design techniques. Goal: to add more posters to our library to promote books. Get ComicLife at home for $4.99 on your iPad! Click here to download it to your computer for $30.
Spent one day using a new program: Timez Attack. This will soon be available at home for no cost. Directions will be added to GoogleDrive via the Learning Links very soon. This is an AMAZING program to increase recall speed with Multiplication and Division. Requirement: 3-4, 20min sessions/week.

4th Grade - Mrs. Yoffe

Dance Mat Mondays!
Started a Google Earth, Holiday Tour project: With a partner, students collaborated on 4 different winter celebrations. They each worked from their own computer but edited the same page using Google Drawing to create a diagram of their research. Then, they copied and pasted their information into Google Earth "pins" to build a tour around the earth of the ways different cultures celebrate the holidays. For resources they used the "Holidays from around the world" box to find their info. But how did they save their Google Earth "tours"? Google Earth saves "pins" as .kmz files. They saved these to their Google Drive so that they could work on this at home. Saving this way is a new process and we do not have 100% mastery...yet.
For those that finished their Holiday Tour, Students spent one day using a new program: Timez Attack. This will soon be available at home for no cost. Directions will be added to GoogleDrive via the Learning Links very soon. This is an AMAZING program to increase recall speed with Multiplication and Division. Requirement: 3-4, 20min sessions/week.

5th Grade - Mrs. Chavez - A GREAT WEEK...

Dance Mat Mondays!
Finished document formatting practice in Google Docs (left vs right jusify, Font tools, use "Research Tools" to add images [discussed plagiarism], used the drawing feature).
Created Badge by using the video as a guide and each other as resources, NOT A TEACHEr!! Photos stored in GoogleDrive. Discussion: Didn't Mr. Krulish say to NEVER put your photo or anything personal on the web? So why are photos in gDrive? Issue with "Sharing". Rule: cannot share without Teacher or Parent permission. Discussed issues with Sharing (ALMOST all problems with sharing happened because students forget to logout of their account at home or at school. Kids don't realize they are in someone else's account; Another issue is the mischievous older brother or sister).
Began a VERY successful research project that involves the use of chat rooms. Click here to read more about it! Eventually this will culminate into a News Broadcast project focusing on the 13 Colonies using iPad's:
We didn't have time for: Timez Attack. This will soon be available at home for no cost. Directions will be added to GoogleDrive via the Learning Links very soon. This is an AMAZING program to increase recall speed with Multiplication and Division. Requirement: 3-4, 20min sessions/week.

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