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First, thanks for all the help and advice that I get from this board! I appreciate every bit of it.

I work at two schools--middle and elementary, serving 2nd through 8th. At the middle school, I see a mix of 6th, 7th, and 8th grade students in the first 2 periods of the day.

I have a problem with a project I was going to start my students on next week.

This project was to create an autobiographical PowerPoint. The majority of the students have never worked with PowerPoint before so it is a chance for them to learn it while also tying it in to communication skills and socio/emotional development (they would be learning about giftedness and identifying their strengths and learning styles). I have already given the students the guidelines and the rubric and it was going to be pretty in-depth.

I only have one computer in my classroom, but in the past, we've been able to travel to the computer lab and work there on projects.

I just found out ...See More
Jamie in MO I think you could check individually with teachers to see who is "booked" there, and whether or not those classes will actually be using the lab at that time. It will probably still cramp your students for time, but it's very likely you could arrange to have some time--although I guess I don't know what the lab has been booked for, so it's hard to ...See More
Aug 21, 2009
kevin Thanks for any suggestions...I would love to still make >> this happen if possible.

You don't say what the socioeconomic level of your students is. What fraction have access to computers at home? Perhaps they could do the work as homework, and just bring the product in on flash drives.

Do you have access to a digital proje...See More
Aug 21, 2009
lbp Sorry about your plans. I know this feeling. I used to get pretty free access to our computer lab, but since they doubled the number of computer classes, its been pretty difficult to get in. It is especially difficult since I was trying to have both class do the same thing, but nope the computer lab was booked for one of the classes.

I did...See More
Aug 21, 2009
Kevin On 8/21/09, lbp wrote: > One thing > I found out was that I really pushed their comfort levels by > requiring them to actually use a paper encyclopedia. Many of them > had never used one before.

I applaud the use of paper sources, but they shouldn't really be paper encyclopedias. Get them to start seeing sources *other* than e...See More
Aug 22, 2009


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