Everything in the lab is settling down. There are only two machines that are still done and the IT emailed yesterday that he has the server for one and will check the other when he is in. The wiring IT was in earlier this week to check the wiring for the new roll out and all is looking ready, but we are not on the roll out list yet and the newest list goes to December 2009.
The good news is we will be ready when the time does come.
The Grade 1 classes now know the computer lab routine and are ready to learn the programs. I find that many know how to open games and click, but very few really know how to play the games. This is the same for all of the grades I teach, so I model the game first using either the SMARTboard or LanSchool or both.
I modelled: "How to evaluate a website?" this week with the Grade 4s. We were looking for sites that would be appropriate for grade 1 and what makes the site appropriate or inappropriate. I find it works well doing this with the grade 4s for grade 1 because some of the students read a lower reading level and this allows them all to be at the same place.
The grade 2s will be starting Data Management and graphing using the computers next week.
Also, all of the student IDs are in now so I will pass them out to the other staff so the students can save their work.
All in all a very good week in the lab.
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