First Week of School

It’s been a good start to the 2013-2014 school year. I have two new schools where I will be serving as the ITRT (technology instructor), Varina and Davis. I’m still at Holladay and Laburnum, where I’ve been for the past eight years. This week we’ve been doing introductory activities with technology. We’ve written notes to our parents in Pages and added a photo, we’ve made Comics and Pixies about ourselves, and we’ve interviewed each other. Since I’ve already posted similar projects, I won’t post them again here, but I’d like to highlight two projects we did at my new schools. The 4th graders in Ms. Cousin’s class at Davis created a video to explain the classroom procedures to their parents. That really grabs parents’ attention at Back-to-School night. The 4th graders in Ms. Hubard’s class at Varina created Biteslide posters about themselves (see photo). Biteslide used to be called Beeclip, so if you’d like to see how I’ve used it in other ways search my blog for Beeclip. Finally, 3rd grade students in Ms. Eller’s class at Davis made Wordle word clouds about their interests and added a photo.