Blog Article Printed about Dusty!

I attended a Technical Education class this week at The Eighth Floor and the teacher asked us students to consider being guest bloggers.  I have enjoyed using my blog in the classroom about my new kitten, Dusty, and decided to write an article about using Dusty's blog.  Click on the link below to read more about it.

Excel Design Projects!

Students in 1st through 4th grade take time to have fun in Excel by creating their own design using cells that have been formatted to be squares.  Designs include puppies, trains, sports cars, flags, names and even Minecraft characters.  We will advance to data entry, graphs and charts next week as we gather Thanksgiving food information.

Tic-Tac -Toe!

Students work together to play tic-tac-toe in the Corefx program. 



Spreadsheet Presidential Predictions!

Students in both Tech Ed classes used Excel spreadsheets to calculate the electoral college votes and predict who they think will become our president on November 6th.  Using the internet helped students see which way each state is leaning.  Good luck to both presidential candidates.  

Powerpoint.

Fourth graders used the promethean board to share their powerpoint presentations.  Each student researched a state and completed an eight slide powerpoint which they presented to their classmates.  Students can choose between a pen or activ wand to transition their information.

Fish Aquariums in Second Grade!

Second graders in Ms. Joyce's class finished their Fish Aquarium assignment in Powerpoint.  What a fun way to learn animation and formatting options in this powerful program.



Students use Pink Paper

Floating around the lab are little strips of pink paper.  Students in Kindergarten and up are using these strips to divide their keyboard.  This division encourages younger students to use both the right and left hand while playing games aimed at finding the ABC's.

Market Fluctuates!

Tech Town indices fluctuated over the weekend.  Read all about it at the Tech Town blog.  Different factors caused the market in Tech Town to fluctuate, but there is plenty of time to improve company growth and value.

Tech Town Blog

Are the Lab Computer Screens Broken?

It looks like the students have broken screens.  But in reality, they are just turned off.  These seventh graders were keyboarding with the screens off.  This exercise was a great lesson to keep our eyes on the copy.