Hello, I'm Christina Godsey, a second grade teacher and excited to start this project on Tuesday. I have done several online projects with Susan and always enjoy them. We live in Columbus, home of the apparently not so mighty Ohio State Buckeyes. lol Anyway, just wanted to post a quick hello.
Hi. I'm Laurie from Arkansas. I teach 2nd grade. I have 3 student computers in the room. We also have a computer lab once a week for an hour. Most of the time the students work on Compass program in the computer lab. On some days when I'm in the lab with them we have a lesson on using word, power point, internet, kidspiration, etc. It is difficult to allow students to use classroom computers to complete assignments. While I have 3 working on computers the other 20 kids feel like they have to talk to me right then, making it difficult to help computer people. It is easier to teach in the lab but we don't get to visit it enough for kids to retain skills learned on computer. I love the enthusiam the children have to do anything on the computer.
Laurie
Hello! We are Miss Luongo's class in Rockaway, NJ.
We haev 5 computers in our classroom. 2 are older MACs and 3 are brand-new flat screen PCs! We also have a wheel-able SMARTboard that we use 1-2 times a week. We use computers daily to use Successmaker and Knowledge Box software. We also write our journals on the computer once a week in the computer lab.
We are not sure how we will use Kidspiration for this project, but I have used it as a web creator in the past. Any ideas?
We will be reading The Gingerbread Boy soon and writing more!
Have a nice day!!!
Welcome to the Kidspired Frosty Readers 2007 blog. Please introduce yourselves and let us know how you use your classroom computers. How many computers do you have? Do you use them in learning centers? What are the biggest challenges you've encountered and were you able to come up with solutions? Once this project is complete, how do you plan to use our Kidspiration templates with your students? We have so much to talk about and learn from each other. Let the conversation begin!
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