Mrs. Tumenas

Whether you are just learning how to type or learning how to do 3D object oriented programming, it takes practice. Middle school students who are struggling with keyboarding, presentations, word, excel or upper school students who are working with new google tools, InDesign or Alice- the more you practice your skills, the better you will be. Try it- it works!

This is a compilation of the results from all who responded to the survey. Click to enlarge the image.

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5Q made a Voice Thread with their grandparents and grandfriends.

They did a great job taking pictures and making short videos. you can see the larger versions of the videos here.

Students in grades 4-9 have been introduced to a new tool this fall, Voice Thread. Each class has worked in Voice Thread, talking about their hopes and dreams or goals for the year. You can check the links for the individual grades on the right to see these. The second part of the assignment for the older students is to make your own Voice Thread around a topic of your choice. Although many students are still in the midst of completing this assignment, the 3 featured below have generated the most comments thus far.

Today President Obama delivered a speech to American students. Before the speech aired there was a lot of controversy over allowing students to watch this in school. This is a short video from Meet the Press about some of this controversy. Did you hear, read or see anything on the news about this? What do you think?

You will find the video of President Obama’s speech below. I would like you to comment on either what you think about the controversy that surrounded the speech before it was given, or about the speech itself. What does it say to you? Does it apply to you? What do you think about goals for your education?

As you formulate your comments, please keep in mind some of the basic rules for blogging in the classroom, or anywhere online. This link about blogging rules is from a school in Thailand…and they all apply to BCD as well.

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