K-8 Computer Lab Teachers

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Comment by Priscilla Grim on April 11, 2013 at 10:58am

Looking for a resource for educational games online? Check out http://powermylearning.com it's free and all the games are aligned to Common Core standards. And did I mention it is free? ;)

Comment by Patricia Ewing on March 1, 2013 at 10:58am

Sorry - I just added a comment and need to correct something. I mentioned that I had an account in Portaportal called preschool. The name is actually TechSmart not preschool.

Comment by Patricia Ewing on March 1, 2013 at 10:54am

I just joined your group. I've been teaching K-5 computers since November 2011. Coming in after the year began was interesting especially since I'd never taught computers before. I decided to teach through Microsoft Office programs one at a time as my base and add other ideas as I found them and it worked for me. This year I purchased Structured Learning's set of Technology books K-5 and have used quite a bit of their lessons. I also go to Jacqui Murray's site Ask a Tech Teacher http://askatechteacher.wordpress.com/ when I want to find a quick site for something. I've subscribed to her emails as well. I keep adding more and more sites and activities on my Portaportal account at www.portaportal.com. You can sign in as a guest. I have three - one is named preschool for my PreK students, another is mrsewing for my K-8 and the other is very old and called pataede which I created while I was a classroom teacher. It is a very easy site to set up, but other than creating categories not easy to organize. It just puts each new entry at the bottom of your list in the category you choose. It works for me because the school has very old computers and the other sites I have tried to set up with colorful icons either do not work at all or are very slow on our computers.

I am still working on organizing my ideas for the computer lab and appreciate all the help in this group.

Comment by Neill Kramer on June 2, 2011 at 4:03pm

Evolving our K-8 website Together

We are very excited to be soft-launching a K-8 website for teachers to share learning resources quickly & easily.

 

We've been working closely with a single school district but now's the time to expand out and get feedback from the wider world of educators.

 

There's a quick tutorial movie on our home page (click on any of the big icons).

 

If you register then you can vote on features that are important to you: http://19pencils.com

(see attached sample screenshot)

 

Please let us know. We're listening!

 

There's also a place on our contact form for comments: http://19pencils.com/register/contact

 

Thanks in advance,

Neill Kramer

co-founder

19Pencils.com

Comment by Mrs Cadogan on May 24, 2011 at 8:17am

I have taught computers for 18 years to K-5 students. In September I will be in a new school which goes through 8th grade! Help, where do I start with middle school?

Comment by mary maloney on December 5, 2010 at 12:50pm

I teach learning technology in a K-8 computer lab.

Comment by Volcano Experience on September 21, 2010 at 9:27am

HI
Could you take a moment and send us the answer to this survey
so the project can move forward....

What grade level are students you teach about volcanoes?

Do you include information on health effects?

Volcanoes - Effects on Health
• Respiratory -breathing ash asthma, bronchitis, emphysema
• Gas Plumes and Airplanes
• Crops, land - poisons in volcano ash
• Effects in ocean - Hydrothermal Volcanoes
• Geotourism - safe viewing • Destruction: Buildings, transportation,communication
• Good & Bad Bacteria that live in underwater volcano soils
• Study Martian Volcanoes on Earth
• FUN Make Your Own Volcano
• Make A Volcano Cake

these topics can be found on
http://www.volcanoexperience.com

send email to admin@volcanoexperience.com
or at classroom20.com

thank you!
we reply to all responses, but are not sure that we receive your email
so if you dont get reply, send again. thanks.

Comment by Nathan Carlson on September 10, 2010 at 11:29am

I have a Mac Lab of 25 Intel Imacs. (Last years model) I have found a few LAN games such as Armagetron and Battleship. Does anyone have any other LAN games for middle school students that are not shoot em up games?

Comment by Brandon Horst on September 10, 2010 at 11:22am

If you are using TuxPaint, I always use the TuxPaint Config to and you can choose an alternate directory to save student work in. I have a folder in "My Documents" called TUX and it saves everything in there.

If you have things you need to get to on a Windows PC, the default location is

C:Documents and Settings/YOURUSERNAME/Application Data/TuxPaint/saved

You do have to have the viewing of hidden folders turned on too...

You can do that through "Tools-Folder Options-View-Show hidden files and folders' once you open the C: drive...

Tux is great, I take the students school pictures and create stamps out of them and load them into TuxPaint...If anyone is interested in creating stamps, I could give you a tutorial, it's pretty easy...

Comment by Volcano Experience on September 10, 2010 at 9:41am

we are new to classroom2.0 ,
created by a high school student
is website on volcanoes around world and health,
http://www.volcanoexperience.com


student needs your help!!!! needs responses by September 15, 2010

survey online
http://www.volcanoexperience.com/school

could you ask your class these questions and send results to
admin@volcanoexperience.com
or post them in response to this message
or look for volcano experience on classroom20.com
and send them
if you don't receive a reply from him, please send them again



grade level, age range, # students
question 1 #yes, #no
question 2
question 3

Survey
did you know:

*Some volcano gases are poisonous.
Yes No

*If before going near a volcano, you have breathing problems such as asthma, bronchitis, and emphysema, could breathing in volcanic gases and ash make it worse?
Yes No

*Cows and sheep that eat the grass where ash has fallen often get sick or die from fluorine in the ash.
Yes No

*Volcanoes are fun to visit (geotourism) but can be dangerous.
comments --

many thanks!
Forward to any other teachers you think might help him with his project

for social studies, some teachers could use
http://www.volcanoexperience.com/volcanoesofthepast.html

You can use http://www.volcanoexperience.com to teach students about clicking
then show them technology of live webcam photos
the hawaiin volcano is active, daytime it has gas , nightime it has red glow (dusk around 1 AM EST)

a sample lesson plan
http://www.volcanoexperience.com/lessonplan.html

theres a demographic map tool that lets you pick anywhere in the US
and it generates a map with information

http://www.volcanoexperience.com/hawaii.html has sample of it
would you live near a volcano? you could compare hawaii population with mt st helens 30 years later
or yellowstone or anywhere in US

look at the site, it can be used to teach many things
worlds largest baking soda and vinegar volcano
http://www.volcanoexperience.com/makeyourownvolcano.html

if you'd like to use it later in the year, the starting page can be customized for your lessons
mapping, science, health, geography, technology, any subject - send an email and we'll work with you on your project admin@volcanoexperience.com
if you'd like the students to email, receive an answer from a scientist or student

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