Keying In

We started our brainstorming yesterday and we’ll record it here. We’re coming up with topics that we would like to share with students from around the world about Wisconsin, our school, the midwest, and topics of interests to you as students. Your task in your comment today is to come up with ideas that you would like to cover in your post. Our next step will be researching and compiling resources on a website called a wiki. We’ll explore that next! When you are done with this comment, please go back to DanceMat until the rest of the class is ready to move on.

Happy Valentines Day!  For our last day of keyboarding we’re going to do a slightly crazy activity. You’ll each begin a comment to this post, and then every minute, I’ll say “switch” and you’ll get up and move to the next chair, add to THAT comment, and so on.  I’m leaving the topic WIDE open, but a good suggestion is to start a list of some kind – that leaves a lot of room for new material from your classmates.  When you get back to your seat at the end, you’ll be responsible for proofreading the comment before submitting it.  Remember, hands on the home row!

Hey 6th graders!  Welcome back to keyboarding!  We have some exciting projects to work on in addition to practicing our keyboarding skills.  Before we get started, though, I have a few questions for you:

1)  Do you have an email account (of your own)?  If so, what do you use it for?  If not, have you used email before?

2) Have you ever made a video using a camcorder?  If so, have you ever put anything on YouTube?

3) Have you ever used Powerpoint?  Do you consider yourself a beginner, intermediate, or expert?

4) What’s something that you’d really like to learn how to do in this class?

5) What are your favorite sites on the internet?

6)  How much time do you typically spend on the internet each day at home?

After you get your answers written (and please number them!), just click submit and you’re done!