This week brings a timed typing test...

It's time we checked to see how much progress we've made with Type to Learn, so we'll be doing a timed typing test.

For those students who are typing more than 30 words per minute, you may make a choice from the menu of New York Times Learning Page topics below:

Daily News Quiz
The 50 States Crossword Puzzle


6 Qs in the News
- choose a story that interests you, print out the questions, and hand in the answers to me.


 And if you finish your activity, enjoy:
Edgar Allen Poe's The Raven - Interactive


I did want to show off a few fine examples of the Greece glogs the 6th graders completed over the past few weeks:

Today, We try Glogster!

Today, I will be introducing the Web 2.0 tool called Glogster.

Glogster gives you the ability to create online poster boards using incredibly fun graphics.

Your 6th grade Language Arts teachers would like you to learn about Glogster so that you can create your Greek God/Goddess project with it... so we'll have some fun playing with the program by creating a Glog about the country of Greece.  I would usually insist you do your own research, but this project is simply about exploring the new program, so I'll be giving you a fact sheet and a file of photos to pull from.

Login using the link: http://edu.glogster.com/

I will explain this in greater detail, but I would like you to include:

A Headline
A Map of Greece
At least four photos with captions
At least four facts about Greece
And a block of texts that makes clear that all the facts are pulled from the National Geographic website, and all the photos are pulled from the Lonely Planet Website.

Not to worry, this project will take at least two weeks!
Happy Glogging!

Mrs. Morell

Keyboarding this Week

6E had a day off this week.   My 6F group had a chance to practice logging into Cornerstone and Gmail... and I had a chance to trouble-shoot any issues with these new systems.  Be sure to continue to let me know if you can't log into either one.

We then will spend the bulk of the class practicing keyboarding skills with Type to Learn. 

As always, happy keyboarding!

Mrs. Morell

Housekeeping Week

This week we will:

Introduce the students to our new Gmail accounts,

Teach them to log into Cornerstone, so they can see their grades,

Ask them to complete a survey on their current online use, to help us decide which topics would be most relevant for our kids on the Common Sense Media Digital Citizenship and Online Safety units:

http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/NBFDS3M

and

teach them how to use Uberprints to design a Holy Trinity Spirit Shirt:

http://www.uberprints.com/studio/

That should keep us busy for 45 minutes!