New Tech Teacher (K-2)

[Danielle Mac]

I was asked last week to be the new elementary tech teacher (K-2), so I am scrambling to get up to speed! I plan on starting with lessons on parts of the computer and rules and procedures.  Any suggestions for the next set of lessons? I love all of the great bulletin board ideas too!

[Deanna Sternefeld]

With the little one, I tend to do more classroom re-enforcement educational games.  I work at a small Catholic school, so money is not there for software (games).  I use a few websites: http://www.pbskids.org; http://www.abcya.com; http://www.tvokids.com just to name a few.

In second grade I use Kidspiration (one of the few paid programs we did get.)  Then from that I move onto Word.  We do a lot of writing prompts with the second grade starting in late Oct...early Nov.  And Kidspiration has a lot of lesson plans you can get from their website.

Hope this helps a little.  I remember when I started, I had to do everything on my own.  It is great to find a site like this one to help!

[Tashina]

Someone posted this website in another thread on this website, maybe this can be of some assistance to you.  http://oakdome.com/k5/

[Donna Burris]

We don't have kid pix and we are limited to what sites we can use, so Tux Paint is also a no go. So I use Microsoft Paint.  This week, we viewed episode 1 on www.drawastickman.com and talked about creativity in the lab. I then did a mini lesson on the pencil.  The young one's drew a picture and wrote (copied) a few words, the upper grades drew a picture and typed a few sentences about theirselves and what they liked to do, then we learned how to close the program and log off the computer.  We then watched episode 2 on the site.  They loved it!

[Lisa Hines]

I used http://www.kerpoof.com a lot last year with K-2, although at this point in the year, we're just doing simple drawing on Paint programs (Tux Paint at our school).