Sixth grade students will create a Google earth tour of the Seven Natural Wonders of the World this week. Please use Gale Student Resources to find the Seven Natural Wonders. For instructions on creating your tour, click here.

Seventh grade students will begin work in Scratch. For more information on this free programming tool created at MIT, go to scratch.mit.edu.

Moviemaker projects should be finished by now and we are moving on to the technology research project. If you have not gotten my approval on your topic, or want to change your topic, now is the time. I will be using a rubric to grade this project. 

Click here for project guidelines
Click here to view the rubric.

MPCS Critical Thinking

Take a look at these critical thinking games posted on the MPCS Media Center website:

https://sites.google.com/site/mpcsmediacenter/critical-thinking

Powerpoint Animations

If you are finished with your Moviemaker project, you can either type or work on making an animation in Powerpoint. Take a look at this video for some ideas:

http://viewpure.com/02A_-3ZwE6w

Typingweb.com

Students in 6th grade should be finishing up with their Photoshop projects today. For those of you who are already finished, I'd like you to try out typingweb.com. I have set each of you up with an account and we will go over it in class. Go to typingweb.com and click on student login at the top of the page.

Students in 7th Grade will begin filming their President's movie today.

Website Development

This week we wrapped up our work on websites. Students created websites using weebly.com. This is a departure from my usual use of wordpress.com for this assignment. Weebly proved to be extremely user friendly, requiring very little instruction to get a real website up and running with plenty of bells and whistles. A few kids would have liked a little more freedom in their layout and design options, but overall, this is a great tool for students to build a website. You can add pictures, videos, documents, and more. This assignment gives students the freedom to create a website on any topic they would like, so websites range from sports to cooking to science. Great work everyone! 

Students are currently working through the game Ribbon Hero, created by Microsoft. Ribbon Hero is a game that helps you learn to use Microsoft Office products and is available online for anyone to use. You can download it for free here!