My students were inspired when I showed them a poster from Ruskin Press and asked if they could make their own. Here is the result.  Can you tell what it spells?  I am so proud of them!

We spend 10-15 minutes at the beginning of class most days using various types of keyboarding tests, games, drills, and lessons.  Students are expected to show progress in both speed and accuracy and are assessed every 2 weeks. 

As of 11/09/09 the following assignments are overdue:

• All- Technology PUZZLES
• 8- Digital FOOTPRINT DRAFT
• All- VOCABULARY TEXT 2 MIND MAPS
• 8- GOOGLE DOCS ACCOUNT CREATED
• 8- GOOGLE DOCS INVITE SENT TO ME
• 7- Digital CITIZENSHIP DRAFT
• All- E-mail
• All- SPEED1
• All- PermSlip
• All- Memory Stick
• All- Excel1 Up To Date for Week 4

You can find the directions for this assignment here or in my teacher drive.

6th Grade:  You will make an electronic poster at Glogster.Edu. Here is the planning handout.   Here are the detailed directions in a .wmv file but you can also get them in a PowerPoint on my teacher drive.

7th Grade:  You will be doing research on Digital Citizenship and writing about it.  Here are the directions in a .wmv file but you can also get them in a PowerPoint on my teacher drive.

8th Grade:  You will do research on Digital Footprints, write in Google Docs, and make a bibliography at NoodleBib.  Here are the directions in a .wmv file but you can also get them in a PowerPoint on my teacher drive.

8th Graders will make a VoiceThread, illustrated, narrated and put to music. You will use They will make a bibliography using NoodleTools. 

7th Graders will make a VoiceThread, illustrated, narrated and put to music. 

6th Graders will make an Animoto, illustrated, narrated and put to music.  

You will all be allowed to use http://www.rhymer.com/ and http://rhyme.poetry.com/.  You will comment online on each others' VoiceThread Poetry when they are finished. You will use exclusively Creative Commons images from Flickr and  Google Advanced Search.

Parameters for the poems:

• 8 Lines
• Rhyming
• Any topic relating to Fall or Autumn. For instance: Back-To-School, pumpkins, Jewish New Year, Veteran's Day, Columbus Day, Thanksgiving, Halloween, changing seasons, weather, trees, feelings about Fall, sports we play in Fall, etc.
• Save every URL for every photo you save unless it belongs to you.

More details to follow.

Instructions for your Home Page:

Post your 3 introductory Haikus on top and post all your writing assignments below them:

• Write 1 - Digital Citizenship
• Write 2 - Letter to the Future
• Write 5 - Outbursts RAPP
• Write 6 - Cell Phone Dangers?

We will post the following as images. See me if you want to scan anything:

• Write 3 - Digital Footprints Inspiration Graphic
• Write 4 - Animation Storyboard

Instructions for your Second Page: Set this page up for ISTE Standards 1 and 2. All you need right now is text boxes.

Instructions for your Third Page:  Set this page up for ISTE Standards 3 and 4. All you need right now is text boxes.

Instructions for your Fourth Page:  Set this page up for ISTE Standards 3 and 4. All you need right now is text boxes.

Instructions for your 5 through 25th Pages:  Set these pages up for your personal use. Just remember, keep it educational, follow the Mann 5, and keep it clean. Remember your User Agreement promises.