So the cart with 30 Chrome Books arrived for my students yesterday. Woohoo! Very exciting. The children were all so appreciative and respectful. It was fun helping them check them out, and then we just launched right in.
My new writing class students made wordles at wordle.net. Their text was a quick write on their feelings about writing. The wordles were deep...and sad. They are terrified of writing. Honoring that is a place to start.
My 9th grade classes were super juiced. Finally! Technology to do all that research and writing on. Showed them a web site that allows them to keep track of their research, and they worked on adding to and editing their research papers in the cloud.
AVID students worked on college applications, and yearbook students could all work on their pages at the same time. Nobody wants to use those ancient towers anymore.
What new app can I show them all tomorrow? We shall see.
My new writing class students made wordles at wordle.net. Their text was a quick write on their feelings about writing. The wordles were deep...and sad. They are terrified of writing. Honoring that is a place to start.
My 9th grade classes were super juiced. Finally! Technology to do all that research and writing on. Showed them a web site that allows them to keep track of their research, and they worked on adding to and editing their research papers in the cloud.
AVID students worked on college applications, and yearbook students could all work on their pages at the same time. Nobody wants to use those ancient towers anymore.
What new app can I show them all tomorrow? We shall see.