Monday Classes: Ms. Sexton & Ms. Young
Tuesday Classes: Ms. Counts, Ms. Luten, & Mr. Achor
Wednesday Classes: Ms. Creech
Thursday Classes: Ms. Deleon, Ms. McKeller, & Ms. Masopust
Friday Classes: Ms. Gilmer, & Ms. L. White
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Class will begin with a tutorial on the Exploring Kidspiration Program. Students will use Kidspiration to enhance thinking skills with visual learning. It is an interactive CD training for students that will walk them step-by-step through using Kidspiration's integrated picture and writing views.
The students will learn to start a new screen and/or activity. The skills they will learn in "Picture View" include: opening a new diagram, program overview, entering ideas, using the format symbol, how to add link symbols, adding text by pointing and typing, using the symbol palate, adding link symbols, moving symbols, resizing symbols, editing symbol colors, deleting symbols, undoing mistakes, and changing the view by zooming in or out on the page.
Skills covered in the "Writing View" will include: an overview of the program, how the picture-to-tool option works, how to add an idea in the writing view, how to move written ideas, changing the writing format, how to hide the lined paper, how to use prefixes, and how to go to pictures.
In the "Audio Tutorial" students will learn to: use the talking interface, use the listening tool, change the voices in the audio tool, and how to record sounds of their own.
The "Super Grouper Tutorial" will demonstrate how to return to the starter, how to create a category, adding a title to your work, formatting a category, how to add ideas, and how to switch to the writing view.
The "Finish Tutorial" will instruct students in: checking spelling, adding a heading to the project (student information, teacher information, or other details needed before printing the finished work), how to print a project, how to export a project (for use as an HTML for web pages, as a jpeg or pic), and how to save the project once it is completed.
The students will then construct a Kidspiration's Activity to represent themselves and some important details about themselves that make them special or different from their classmates. The students will then be instructed as to steps for saving their work to their disk. We will also print the activity for taking home as well as a copy to put into their technology portfolio.
Students will take a note home for their parents to introduce the Unit "Log On" and a rubric checklist of skills covered in the unit. (This is the same theme and title as the K-2 instruction, but activities will be conducted on the 3-5 grade level curriculum.)
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