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Vicky S: Part-time (HA!) Computer Teacher

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About Me:
I teach computers for grades K-8 in a small Episcopal School in Southern California. My obsessions include: photography, all things Internet & live music.
How often do you see each of your classes?
Each class (Kindergarten-8th grade) comes twice a week.
How long do you see each class?
Kindergarten-3rd: 30 minutes each time, 4th & 5th: 1 30 minute class & 1 45 minute class, 6th-8th: 2 45 minute classes
Where are You From?
West San Fernando Valley (Los Angeles area) in California
What is your twitter name?
VisionsByVicky
What is your Plurk name?
visionsbyvicky
What is your Skype name?
vicky.sedgwick1
Blog:
http://vsedgwick.edublogs.org/
Wiki:
http://stmcomputers.wikispaces.com/

Teaching Technology: Reflections of a K-8 Computer Teacher

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Some School Poems

These don't really have anything to do with technology but I'm posting them in response to a request on Plurk
Dear Kindergarten Parents,
Your baby started school today
A first big milestone along the way
He's not a baby, oh no not he
As big as any in the class you see

Till now you've been his shining sun
Your influence has been equaled by none
But now I'll share in his work and play
Thanks for lending me your child today

This little hand so small,
Is starting to school today
This… Continue

Posted on April 7, 2009 at 12:00pm — 2 Comments

Vicky S

Sharing a project that I loved

And I think the students enjoyed it too! I just posted a new entry on my blog about this project but I thought I'd share about it here too.

My Kindergarten-3rd Grade classes have all been participating in the Winter Wonderland Project. One of the January activities was about Wilson Bentley and as I was researching him and things about him on the web I… Continue

Posted on February 14, 2009 at 5:00pm — 1 Comment

Vicky S

Election Lesson Planning Rambling - and I do mean rambling!

I probably should be adding this to my Teaching Technology blog and it may make it there at some point. I also thought about posting this in the forum but realized it was more just a brain dump so thought a blog might be more appropriate. Just warning you this truly is just rambling .. lol

I'm trying to organize all of the information and ideas that I have for covering the election and actually get my… Continue

Posted on October 26, 2008 at 11:30pm — 4 Comments

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At 12:45am on October 21, 2009, Joan Pearson gave Vicky S a gift…
Pink Ribbon
Thanks for all your help and ideas!
From the Gift Store
At 10:03am on October 14, 2009, Andrea Hernandez said…
I knew you would have good suggestions!
I notice a lot of people have been signing up lately. What do you think of pairing or grouping people for commenting?
It would make things more manageable, but I also don't trust a lot of the people who are signing up to actually follow through with the project. I think people have good intentions, but in my experience a lot of people sign up to do projects and then drop off the face of the virtual earth.

I am going to work on a timeline, but the first VT will be the introductions (like last year) and I think the projected start date is end of this month.
At 6:42pm on October 11, 2009, Andrea Hernandez said…
I just approved your membership for KinderKids. The idea was to have the kids leave comments for each other, but, as you can imagine, it was difficult. I loved the project (and my students really enjoyed it) but there were some management issues, and I felt that it started to fizzle out a bit. If you go to my page and listen to our VTs, I think they are really cute (was thinking about showing them to the 1st graders just for fun since they have grown up so much). There were a few comments left for us, and the kids were SO excited about them, but I'm not sure they are still there (and I have no idea what happened to them). We used google earth to fly to the other school before we listened to their VT, and we did leave a few comments.

I am trying to take some leadership this year in getting the project a little more organized, maybe a timeline, maybe partnering up pairs of schools for commenting. I would love your help with this, if you're so inclined :)
At 10:52pm on September 27, 2009, Lisa said…
Vicky
Do you know where I can find the My Pumpkin Book PPT to use with my students? I this something that you developed and would share?
Thanks, Lisa Shonk
At 4:07pm on August 4, 2009, dori said…
Hi Vicki! I am also in the Valley (West Hills). I like your befunky photo! Good to meet you here!
At 9:18am on March 11, 2009, Andrea Hernandez said…
It would be short (10-15 minutes) but it might be difficult if you have 2nd graders at that time. I'll try to find someone else first. I will let you know how it goes.
At 10:05pm on March 10, 2009, Andrea Hernandez said…
Today they asked when we could do the chat room again. They said they loved it and asked if we could do it again Thursday. I said only if I figure out something to chat about, that I didn't think it was that great with all the silly typing. Would you want to be the mystery guest in my chat on Thursday? If it worked well, I could then reciprocate for your class. It would be at around 4:15 pm Eastern time.
At 10:58pm on March 8, 2009, Andrea Hernandez said…
Hi Vicky,
About the chat....they really liked it BUT they get so silly. I don't know if it is worthwhile. I did chat with them, but I didn't set a topic. I just asked various questions. Some of the kids weren't even typing words just nonsense. But it was novel and they thought it was a lot of fun. If I was to do it again, I would try to have more of a plan. I used tinychat.com. It is even easier than chatzy b/c you don't need to send the link in an email, they just give you a really easy URL for that chat. You can also save the chat. Would it be totally control-freakish of me to grade the chat??!!!!!
I have an idea we could try for your fourth graders. Maybe I could be a guest in your chatroom, either as myself or as someone famous, and they could ask questions and try to guess who. I definitely think something more "defined" would work better than just the "let's chat."
At 11:22am on March 2, 2009, Marsha Harris said…
Winter Wonderland Wiki...
Vicky, I LOVED the activities on the Winter Wonderland Wiki and was wondering if you know of anything that's been created for Spring?
At 12:17am on January 4, 2009, Ann Porta said…
That is so true. I just switched from dsl to cable and realize how much faster that is.
I looked at your page. My school is St. Joseph, a Pre-K - 7th grade Catholic school. I teach, work with teachers, and have the trouble-shooting job. Teaching is sooo much better!

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Vicky S replied to Robin Walker's discussion 'Music copyright for presentations'
Do you want sites the students can search themselves or are you going to download the music? Here are some sites I have bookmarked but I don't know how safe they'd be for student searching and some of them require registration to download. Custom...
on Friday
Vicky S replied to Liz Gatewood's discussion 'Newspaper Template'
We're just using a newsletter one and modifying it. Could you start with one of those and create your own template for them to use?
on Friday
Vicky S replied to Tracy King's discussion 'Icons on Desktop or Program Menu?'
I do this with the young ones too. Click & Enter is so much easier for them. If they try to double-click they usually just end up moving the icons around.
on Thursday
Vicky S replied to Tracy King's discussion 'Icons on Desktop or Program Menu?'
I have icons on the desktop but at this point with Kindergarten I'm usually opening it for them. 1st & 2nd can open the program and open files. Kindergarten will start opening things themselves nearer the end of the year. We're still working on sa...
on Thursday
Vicky S replied to Kimberly Lachance's discussion 'Microsoft Word Activities'
Ann Oro has some lesson plans on her sms teacher wiki.
November 16
Vicky S commented on April's photo 'IMG_1920'
Thanks. What kind of activities are on the menu?
November 13
Vicky S replied to April's discussion 'Adding voice to projects'
I use File / Export in Kidpix and save them as JPGs and then you can upload those to VoiceThread. I teach my older students to do this themselves - the tricky part is getting them to change the folder so it's not saved under their KidPix account.
November 12
Vicky S commented on April's photo 'IMG_1920'
How do they earn stars and what do they get to do on free days? I see it's on behavior so does the whole class have to be on good behavior to earn a star?
November 12
 
 

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