I started a discussion inviting anyone to share resources and ideas about running a computer lab. I am not sure I am doing this right but we will see.
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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.
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 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
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