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I am a new CONNECT/Technolgy teacher for middle school students and I am needing ideas for teaching keybording basics to students. This is SO BORING, I know....but a requirement at my school. Any good ideas, resources, games, etc... ???

Posted on July 27th, 2007 at 2:33pm — 1 Comment

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At 8:10pm on August 8th, 2007, gmmiller said…: Hi, Katie! I have taught 7th & 8th grade Computers and Technology class the last couple of years. I have some great Excel ideas that focus on spreadsheet outcomes/standards if you are interested. I love finding new (and fun) ways to use Excel-- the kids loved it too. Let me know if you are interested.

At 4:28am on August 2nd, 2007, Ginger Lewman said…: If you'd like to meet, do you want to come to TPLC or me to come to EMS? As an old teacher there, it may be weird for me to come back, talking to a newbie (like I still have my claws in there). If you came to me, you'd get all the "street cred" for bringing the info in. Anytime after the 7th will work for me!

At 7:19pm on July 31st, 2007, Randy Rivers said…: Katie, the state of Utah has a nice site with a ton of keyboarding ideas and resources...

http://www.schools.utah.gov/ATE/keyboarding/key.htm

Hope it helps...have a great school year...RR

At 7:42am on July 31st, 2007, Mrs. Deines said…: YEAH!! I'm so excited to get another digital storyteller!! =) That program is so much fun! I found that my 5-6th graders didn't always like to draw either! But, they could upload pictures (from home or taken at school), use pictures from the web (http://www.pics4learning.com/), or use a computer drawing program (KidPix, Tux Paint http://www.tuxpaint.org/, or just Microsoft Paint. I have found that they may not like to draw on paper, but they do enjoy doing it on the computer. The KEY is to save pictures in JPEG format. Others may be allowed, but I have not searched for all of them. I would guess that a .GIF format would work as well. I would start with a project about family and friends to get them hooked...7th graders would LOVE to talk about themselves and their friends, that is all that is important...right?! ;) Then they could just use their own pictures or take them at school with the school cameras.

Your job sounds fun!! =) I think I would start with simple tasks that tell you what they KNOW about different programs. I built a Word document that had my teachers use different features of Word to complete a certain tasks. For Excel, have students make a graph with data (even collected in your room with a simple survey would be fun). Have them make all the parts of the graph, change the background color, and add different effects! Students could create a PowerPoint slide with information, remember that could be exported into Photo Story to build a story. I have other sites I could send, when I'm on my computer again! =) Good luck with that, it will be fun!!

I love this classroom 2.0! I am going to build a site on www.ning.com for my teachers to join, so we can form a community. Then, I'll build one for our school for students and parents to join and start talking and sharing on! I have 1st grade this year or I would have a ning site for my personal classroom...AND I may still do that for communicating and sharing with parents! I was also excited about the KanEd site webpages they are offering for teachers...it is $12 a year (at least through today-they are on sale) and they are in simple format, allow blogging and attachments, and much more! The cool thing about the KanEd site is that your students have to have a log in to access certain parts of the site and that helps to make it safe!

Keep asking, I love to send and receive ideas!! =)

Good luck and stay in touch!

At 4:49pm on July 27th, 2007, Ginger Lewman said…: OH MY GOODNESS! Why didn't you say something when we were there! Congrats on the new job--EMS has such potential for new teachers! (and the Principal is truly a good guy)
You're welcome to come visit TPLC, either in RL or virtually. I'd love to share with you some good free tools that really get kids going! and can even make keyboarding SO MUCH MORE rewarding!

At 2:50pm on July 27th, 2007, Kevin said…: Welcome to the network!

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