Digital Passport – E-volve

Posted on June 2, 2013 by Vicky Sedgwick

In the third module of Digital Passport by Common Sense Media (and the final one completed this year), 4th grade learned about Cyberbullying. They all found the video that they watched at the beginning of the module very sad and had great discussions about Cyberbullying and how to be Upstanders. After they completed the E-volve module and earned their badges, each 4th grader, as an Upstander, created virtual fortune cookies for Cyberbullies, Bystanders and Targets using a Fortune Cookie Message Generator. Check them out and let us know what you think!

: Amanda – Target

: Amanda – Cyberbully

: Amanda – Bystander

: Nina – Cyberbully

: Nina – Bystander

: Nina – Target

: Patrick – Bystander

: Patrick – Cyberbully

: Patrick – Target

: Rebecca – Bystander

: Rebecca – Cyberbully

: Rebecca – Target

: Samuel – Target

: Samuel – Cyberbully

: Samuel – Bystander

: Sundeep – Target

: Sundeep – Cyberbully

: Sundeep – Bystander

: William – Target

: William – Cyberbully

: William – Bystander

Digital Passport – Share Jumper

Posted on May 25, 2013 by Vicky Sedgwick

In the next module of Digital Passport by Common Sense Media, 4th grade learned about what should be shared online and what shouldn’t be shared. After completing the Share Jumper module and earning their badge, each 4th grader created two comics about sharing online. Since we had the Pixton app installed in Edmodo, 4th grade created their comics using this app. Can you tell from the comics, which twin (Tina or Tyrone) usually makes wise decisions about what to share online and which doesn’t? Check them out and let us know what you think!

: William – Tina

: William Tyrone

: Sundeep – Tina

: Sundeep – Tyrone

: Samuel – Tina

: Samuel – Tyrone

: Rebecca – Tina

: Rebecca – Tyrone

: Patrick – Tyrone

: Patrick – Tina

: Nina – Tyrone

: Nina – Tina

: Amanda – Tina

: Amanda – Tyrone

Digital Passport – Twalker Apps

Posted on April 24, 2013 by Vicky Sedgwick

4th Grade is currently learning about Digital Citizenship using the activities at Digital Passport by Common Sense Media. In the first module, students learned about safe and sensible usage of cell phones and other electronic devices that could distract us. After completing the Twalker module, each student imagined an App that would monitor a person’s usage of their phone and send messages if they were using it inappropriately. Check out the apps which were created using the SMS Generator at ClassTools.Net.

Rebecca	Amanda
Nina	Samuel
Sundeep	William

Christmas Activities

Posted on December 14, 2012 by Vicky Sedgwick

December in the Computer Lab means Christmas activities and this year was no exception. 4th Grade was read the book Christmas Day in the Morning by Pearl S. Buck and then each student wrote a paragraph about a special gift they would like to give or that they have given to someone that they love. If you click below, you can read the 4th grade gifts. Use the escape key to return to this page.

The next Christmas activity was a little less serious. Each student created an animated Christmas image using PowerPoint to create slides and a web site to put them together as an animated GIF. Click each image to see it animate and then use the back button on your browser to return to this page.

Wumpaloons

Posted on November 29, 2012 by Vicky Sedgwick

What’s a Wumpaloon you ask? It is a creature from a poem by Jack Prelutsky titled The Wumpaloons, Which Never Were. This poem is from the book Something Big Has Been Here. After reading the poem, each student edited a copy of the poem in Microsoft Word changing all color words to be the appropriate color. If they didn’t know what a color was then the searched for images of that color using Google’s Image Search. Then each 4th grader drew a picture of what they thought a Wumpaloon would look like based on the description in the poem and added it to the poem in Microsoft Word. Since the poem is copyrighted, we are only sharing the pictures drawn and not the Microsoft Word documents.

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