1st+Class

=Class 1=

Wednesday, August 20th, 9:00 to 3:00
• Class Overview • What is the relationship between technology education and project-based learning (PBL)? • Introduction to MS Word • Introduction to movie making in the classroom
 * Theme:** Productivity


 * For next class:** Collect video, audio, and music for a movie entitled “What makes a house a home.”

Class Overview
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=Turning on Technology: Using Today's Tools to Study Yesterday's=

A field trip from Ferryway School, near Boston, to the nation's oldest ironworks is captured with the latest tech.
[|Click here to watch a video on the iron works project]

What was the role of technology in this project? How did technology add to/subtract from the students' learning
 * Group 1
 * Group 2
 * Group 3
 * Group 4
 * Group 5

[|Download VT Information Technology Grade Level Expectations]

[|ISTE NETS-S]

=Mac OS X =

[|Watch the Introduction to OS X video]

=MS Word = [|MS Office for Mac Home Page] (Check out the courses in the How-To section)

While learning how to use Word we are going to create a beginning of the year newsletter to send home to parents. To start this process please go to the newsletter wiki and contribute to the list of what you need to know to create this newsletter.

Newsletter Wiki

=iMovie = [|iMovie Tutorials]

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=Survey = Please take this end of class survey

Click here to start