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First Week in November
I found this wonderful visual of the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) Standards for Students to guide our work in the technology lab.
Throughout the last two weeks, we have been dealing with a switch to new computers and slow network issues. We're a little out of sync with lessons being "the same" across grade levels and classrooms.
With 2nd grade we worked on logging into The Typing Club program. Each student had their own account and were able to log in, but we had issues with the program that we thought were network related. It is a process of elimination to find out if it's the program causing problems or the network. Our technicians asked me Friday morning to switch to another program. So we'll have to step back a bit.
The 2nd plan for this week was to get into eBooks, this hit the "FIND IT" standard. All students were introduced to the eBook link on the SVT page. However, because of network slow downs and time, we were hit and miss with the amount of books and sites we were able to access. For the most part, students were excited to find sites that read to aloud.
Next week, we plan to use the "MAKE IT" standard and create something based on information we "FIND". Time and network willing, the following step will be to "SHARE IT". Ultimately, I'd like students to be able to use the Blogger Jr. app. This will allow them to start sharing what's happening in their classrooms. Cross your fingers!
Throughout the last two weeks, we have been dealing with a switch to new computers and slow network issues. We're a little out of sync with lessons being "the same" across grade levels and classrooms.
With 2nd grade we worked on logging into The Typing Club program. Each student had their own account and were able to log in, but we had issues with the program that we thought were network related. It is a process of elimination to find out if it's the program causing problems or the network. Our technicians asked me Friday morning to switch to another program. So we'll have to step back a bit.
The 2nd plan for this week was to get into eBooks, this hit the "FIND IT" standard. All students were introduced to the eBook link on the SVT page. However, because of network slow downs and time, we were hit and miss with the amount of books and sites we were able to access. For the most part, students were excited to find sites that read to aloud.
Next week, we plan to use the "MAKE IT" standard and create something based on information we "FIND". Time and network willing, the following step will be to "SHARE IT". Ultimately, I'd like students to be able to use the Blogger Jr. app. This will allow them to start sharing what's happening in their classrooms. Cross your fingers!
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