Thursday, March 20, 2014

Signs of Spring

We were so busy in Trimester II. Here are the highlights:
K-4 participated in Hour of Code.
Kindergarten used the following sites to work on their computer skills:
1st Grade
  • Introduction Microsoft Word (typing poems, inserting clip art, resizing text)
  • Introduction to Kerpoof (adding text boxes, moving objects, printing)
  • Introduction to timeline animation/making movies (Kerpoof)
  • Green sceen pictures
  • Copy/Paste Leprechauns
  • Typing Fun
  • Building and designing with Legos
  • Kidspiration graphic organizer with microphone recordings
  • jpg vs gif files - having fun with animated gif pictures

2nd Grade
  • Strengthening Copy/Paste skills and text skills
  • Changing cells, columns, rows in Microsoft Excel
  • Learning PowerPoint
  • Wax Museum PowerPoint
  • Making movies with Kerpoof
  • Green screen pictures
  • Using microphones
  • Word clouds with Tagxedo
3rd Grade
  • Programming Angry Birds
  • Programming a Flappy Bird game
  • Using iTouch cameras to take pictures of geometry shapes
  • Making movies or PowerPoint shows of geometry shapes
  • Creating geometric objects (grouping) and posting work to Wallwisher
  • Olympic Fact Search
  • Logic Game: Red Remover
  • Dance Mat Typing
  • Using Fotoflexer to edit photos

4th Grade
  • Using Tagxedo
  • iTouch Brain Labeling
  • Excel graphs
  • Coding with Tynker
  • Using Microphones
  • Updating Parish Profile Pages
  • Global Blast Flyers (desktop publishing)
  • Dinosaur Project (Tagxedo, Inspiration, and Excel)



 



Wednesday, October 16, 2013

QR Codes and Coins

Counting money is fun, especially when students are able to check their answers with QR codes on the iPads. 

Wednesday, September 25, 2013

Movie Maniacs

3rd and 4th grade have been learning about jpgs and gifs. Do you know the difference? To understand the difference, students created an animated clip art/picture with abcya animate. The animations were outstanding.

 
 
 


After we mastered animation, we moved on to the ZimmerTwins to help discover how to put together clips to make a movie.

Next, students used the iPods to take video, upload video, and create a movie using Movie Maker.