Building Keyboarding Skills

To prepare our students for success, we are starting to teach keyboarding skills in Grade 3. Every Grade 3 students gets 15 hours of formal keyboarding instruction using Type to Learn 3. They continue to work within their classroom environments until they master the alphabet.

During Grade 4, the students continue to build keyboarding speed and accuracy. A list of website for additional practice and free software is available for students to get additional practice at home.

Check out these tips for building good keyboarding technique


and watch a video of a middle school student who has successfully mastered the art of keyboarding.

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Fall Open House 2007

The Fall Open House was a big success as you can see from these videos created by our tech savvy students.

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More Open House Videos:

http://blip.tv/file/405031

http://blip.tv/file/405030

http://blip.tv/file/399063

http://blip.tv/file/405028

First Graders in the Computer Lab

The first graders are coming into the computer lab to work on

Rain Forest Math

Other Math Skills

Read, Write, Think

ICT Games

They are working on the Following Technology Grade Expections:


IT1-2:1
Students demonstrate proficiency in the effective use of technology by…

Use of Hardware
Differentiating between right and left mouse click
[Windows] or click, hold, and drag [Mac/Windows], recognizing
and using keys letters, numbers, and space bar,
shift, return/enter, punctuation, delete/backspace keys).


Use of Operating System and Standard Features of Applications
* Launching a program from the desktop using a shortcut or alias.
* Logging in and out of a computer.

Veterans' Day Assembly

The seventh and eighth grade hosted a Veterans' Day Assembly in the City School Library on November 10, 2006. Guest speakers included Retired Admiral Warren Hamm, Corey Parent (former student,) and teacher Peter DesLauriers. The City School band played patriotic selections and the entire seventh and eighth grade sang "God Bless America."

St. Albans Messenger TV features Tech Savvy Kids

The St. Albans Messenger featured an article about the St. Albans City School Podcast Episodes created by Tech Savvy Kids (Grades 5 - 8). To see interviews check out
http://samessenger.com/citypod.html or read the article in The St. Albans Messenger -Saturday, June 17, 2006.

Google Sketch Up

A free program called Google Sketch Up is gaining popularity at St. Albans City School.  The program is currently being used in Mr. Galle's Art classes and by the Tech Savvy Kids Student Leadership Program. You can download it for free on your home computer at

http://sketchup.google.com/download.html

 

 

 

Tech Savvy Learning Community

Fifteen teachers embark on a journey to become Tech Savvy Teachers. This professional learning community will work together to move thinking forward using an online learning environment called Moodle.