Showing posts with label 1:1. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 1:1. Show all posts

Monday, April 4, 2011

1:1 Laptop Time ~ Word!

Today Mrs. Yollis' class got a little more time with the 1:1 cart!
First, students opened up Word.

After typing a quality comment, the students went up to Tools in the menu bar and selected Spelling and Grammar.

After fixing all the spelling and/or grammar errors, the students were given some information about their writing.

Grace's comment showed a grade level writing of beginning sixth grade!

Miriam's vocabulary pushed her up to an eighth grade level!






The next step was to copy the text.

Finally, the students pasted the quality comment into a blog comment section of their choice.


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What are the benefits of using Word to compose a comment?

Would you use Word again?

Friday, March 25, 2011

1:1 Laptop Luck!

Today Mrs. Yollis' class was quite fortunate. The fifth grade class had Colonial Days! Why was that fortunate for Mrs. Yollis and her students?

They got to use the fourth/fifth grade 1:1 laptop cart! 


Here is how we used them:

In the morning, everyone composed a quality comment or two. Check out the funny conversations going on in the Animals, Announce Your Adaptation post!  The humpback whale, the spitting cobra, the gorilla, and the mountain goat were talking to one another! Hilarious!



Later, we logged into iXL to practice adding and subtracting fractions!







Some people went into Kerpoof and created fractional images!

By Grayson

By Adia, Hannah, and Grace


By Iman

By Jaden and Tucker

By Aaron and Linsday

By Ryan and Finn



After recharging our batteries by eating lunch and plugging in the laptops to recharge their batteries, we enjoyed more computer time after lunch!

We researched facts about places from our Post Card Project.
Seattle, Washington


Yorkshire Dales, England

Puffin facts for Scotland

It was very hard to find some of the rural places in our atlas!

Finally, those who participated in Fun Friday wanted to use the laptops again!


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What are your thoughts about the 1:1 laptop experience?

What useful sites or applications could we use if we can get them again? 

If you have a 1:1 program, please lend us some advice!

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