Tech Cadet Boot Camp

School assembly

okoye — Wed, 01 Aug 2007 16:15:26 +0000

We joined the summer school assembly today. Don Roberts was coming to speak to the students. Some of our kids didn’t know who Don Roberts was, so we saw the opportunity to join with the other students in the school as a a teachable moment in two ways. First, the kids got to find out about this awesome newscaster who always gives back so much to this community. Also, we had the ability to do an assessment type activity. The “pop quiz” was doing an impromptu newscast of the events of the day for this school. I think we all had fun.

Guest Speaker — Mr. Brown

okoye — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 16:11:41 +0000

Today Mr. Brown from Channel 47 came to talk to us. He explained how he became interested in making films and editing. After sharing a video with us, he explained how some of the effects were created.

Just having fun…

okoye — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 14:25:24 +0000

Last week we talked about internet safety and website evaluation. The kids practiced the skills we discussed by evaluating two websites:

Save the Northwest Tree Octopus

Dog Island

These sights have been the topic of hot debate for the last week. Many votes have been taken to determine if the Tree Octopus is real and if there really is a Dog Island. Today we had some down time and the kids started drawing. There were lots of non-linguistic representations (pictures) of the ideas behind these two sites. Here are a few of the pictures…

Blue Team also did some powerpoints on internet safety

Amara’s Powerpoint

Maggie’s Powerpoint

Blue Team Boys Powerpoint

Today’s guest…

okoye — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 16:39:33 +0000

Today’s guest teacher is Mr. McKee the TRT from Olive Branch and John Tyler. Mr. McKee joins us just after his week long training for teachers in colonial Williamsburg where he taught the teachers about using film making in the classroom.

Welcome to Week 2

okoye — Mon, 23 Jul 2007 13:46:47 +0000

This week’s topic is the Jamestown settlement. Use your resource CD and internet search skills to find information for your projects.

This week’s projects…

okoye — Wed, 18 Jul 2007 04:18:54 +0000

For the rest of the week we will be working on projects that introduce Portsmouth to people in a variety of ways. Make sure to comment on your team blog so that you can let us know what you are learning.

Camp Rules

okoye — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 15:39:45 +0000

We have all agreed to follow the following camp rules:

Camp Rules

Cooperate with your team and listen to your teammates
Do your part on each project, and make sure it’s your best work
Be nice…No fighting
When doing your work use appropriate websites
Be responsible, follow the camp directions and stay with your group
Share with others when using the computer or other technology

It’s The First Day!!

admin — Sun, 15 Jul 2007 19:52:03 +0000

Welcome to camp! We will spend most of the day getting to know each other. Today we will:

Introduce ourselves with powerpoints
Learn about teams and roles
Create camp rules and learn lab rules
Create a powerpointfor each team
Learn about searching the internet safely
Learn about blogging

Before you go home, go to your team Blog and complete the assignment there.

Setting up for Camp

admin — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 21:13:59 +0000

We are still setting up for the camp…Stay tuned!