Thursday, October 25, 2012
Creating Digital Books
Students in fourth grade created digital books using an app on the iPad called Book Creator. They were able to publish their projects as iBooks or .pdf files that parents could access from the Fourth Grade Dropbox.
Saturday, September 15, 2012
Academic Skills Lab
The Roberts students attend the Academic Skills Lab, located in the Center for Inquiry every six school days. The first five or ten minutes are used to practice keyboarding skills. Academic Skills time is then used for practicing math, reading, or other teacher recommended skills on the student laptops. A student may login to their Everyday Math account, their Renzulli account, their Rosetta Stone acount, or practice a skill that is linked on the main Roberts Wiki page.
Essential Agreements were discussed the first week of school and consist of three things: be respectful, be safe, and be principled. Below are a couple of pictures of our students in action!
Essential Agreements were discussed the first week of school and consist of three things: be respectful, be safe, and be principled. Below are a couple of pictures of our students in action!
Friday, August 17, 2012
Wild About Wikis!
According to the largest wiki in the world, Wikipedia, a wiki is "a website that allows the easy creation and editing of any number of interlinked web pages via a web browser using a simplified markup language or a WYSIWYG text editor."
Our wikis are powered by PB Works and are private sites (not viewable by the general public). PB Works allows teachers to create wikis and give their students special usernames and passwords that are specifically for students under the age of 13. With wikis, students can create blogs, an online portfolio, or save links to websites they will need again. With these wikis, students can take notes, see what their partner is doing, and make comments to each other. And they can view their wiki from any computer with an Internet access anytime they like: from home, or at school on a laptop.
Teachers like the wikis because they can see quickly how their students are progressing at a glance. Upon closer inspection, they can monitor page progression and even page history to see who is contributing to each page. With wikis, students can also upload other files, such as images, Word documents, PowerPoints, or even videos they create. In that sense, it's similar to a digital lockbox.
Our wikis are powered by PB Works and are private sites (not viewable by the general public). PB Works allows teachers to create wikis and give their students special usernames and passwords that are specifically for students under the age of 13. With wikis, students can create blogs, an online portfolio, or save links to websites they will need again. With these wikis, students can take notes, see what their partner is doing, and make comments to each other. And they can view their wiki from any computer with an Internet access anytime they like: from home, or at school on a laptop.
Teachers like the wikis because they can see quickly how their students are progressing at a glance. Upon closer inspection, they can monitor page progression and even page history to see who is contributing to each page. With wikis, students can also upload other files, such as images, Word documents, PowerPoints, or even videos they create. In that sense, it's similar to a digital lockbox.
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