Middle School Information Technology

Our sixth graders are about embark on yet another exciting adventure!
As part of their current collaborative project with a class in New Zealand, they are learning all about 21st Century Literacy skills - wikis, Skype, and now YackPack.
YackPack is basically an online telephone and answering machine. Students, teachers and parents in the Pack can either [...]

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Our sixth grade students have just begun an exciting new project!
We are collaborating with a class in New Zealand to produce multimedia presentations about what makes us happy. We began today with a 20 minute Skype conference with our partner class in NZ.
Please come back to our wiki often to see what amazing new things [...]

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We have 3 groups of software experts here at school! Each middle school IT exploratory class created an online tutorial wiki about the software application they studied during the quarter. These wikis are aimed at first time users of the software and are intended to teach everything that the students learned. Students worked collaboratively to [...]

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All middle school students will be learning how to create and edit a wiki during IT this year. To start us off, I’ve created a middle school IT wiki which has links to all of the student created spaces. Check it out!
What is a wiki?
“A wiki (IPA: [ˈwɪ.kiː] or [ˈwiː.kiː] [1]) is a type [...]

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This is the middle school IT blog maintained by Ms. C. On this site you can find news about middle school IT, all resources for the middle school IT classes, links to the middle school IT integration projects, as well as links to various helpful websites and student produced work. Take a look around and [...]

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