Elem: Computer Classes

[Sara Miller <millers@MAIL.YAMHILLESD.K12.OR.US>]

This morning Marjorie Schor wrote:

>As the new library media specialist, I have to teach computer classes to the
>2nd and 5th grades for one half hour every other week. They had computer last
>year and the 5th graders basically did word processing and the 2nd graders
>did Kid Works 2. I will not have an Internet connection by the first class.
>Do you have any suggestions for the 2nd graders? I have Kid Pix and Kid
>Works-also the Elementary Bundle for  MAC.  I would love to do Grolier's with
>the 5th graders but have not had responses when I tell the teachers that I
>want to integrate these lessons with the classroom curriculum.  Any
>suggestions for a generic Grolier's lesson? Thanks so much.

I, representin our technology committee, am also responsible for setting up
our technology curricullum.  Many of us want our curricullum to begin with
the basics and include desktop management, ethics, etc., even though we
have had a proportionately large number of MACs for 4 years.  Our school
has grown from 200 to 650 and frankly, there is a lot of computer
hardware/software abuse.  Our principal would like to focus on software
instruction (I assume as Marjorie is doing) to lead to multimedia
productionsand networking.  1)  What do the rest of you think?  2)  Does
anyone have lesson plans for technology curricullum?

Sara Miller (millers@mail.yamhillesd.k12.or.us)
Library Media Specialist
Columbus Elementary School
1600 Fellows St.
McMinnville, OR 97128