6th+Grade+Class+Description

=__6th Grade:__=

(55-minute classes, 5-days/week, for 9 weeks)
• Class Introductions & Class Rules • Macintosh Basic Functions, File & Document Management • Backing up important files & documents • //**Custom Typing**// ( Keyboarding practice on [|www.customtyping.com] ) • **E-Journaling:** Students will create & maintain an electronic journal in //iWorks' Pages//. They will explore the many tools & uses of //Pages// while creating many different journal entries. • **Blogging:** Students will set up &/or participate in a classroom or school-wide blog. Students will learn what a blog is, learn appropriate blogging behavior, & learn about its potential uses in various aspects of their lives and our society.

• Mr. Eckley’s Wikiak Place Treasure Hunt
The purpose of this treasure hunt is to help you become familiar with all the information & resources available in this Wikiak Place. Click around...see where the links take you! Enjoy!

• Internet Applications:
Students will learn about various types of search engines and how to utilize them effectively, they will evaluate web sites, practice using the Internet responsibly, learn awareness & use strategies concerning issues with the Internet, such as with social networking, etc. Some Good Resources: [|Get Net Wise], [|Media Lit], [|Search Engine Watch], & [|Media Awareness Network].

• Podcasting:
Students will become familiar with some history of podcasts, various types of podcasts, & purposes for podcasting. They will subscribe to an educational podcast of their choice and write their responses to various episodes in their E-Journals. [|Podcasting in Education]

• Journey Inside Computers:
Students learn about computer history and how computers and their components work. Using the //Pages// application and the Intel web site, students will research the website and record answers to questions, watch videos that support their learning, and interact with Online activities. They may also input & keep vocabulary words with definitions & pictures in //Address Book//. [|Scholastic's Glossary of Internet & Web Terms] Click on the following Word document to download The Journey Inside Computers assignment: Students will then work in small groups to discover, learn, and teach what they've learned through an enhanced Podcast. They might also create a radio broadcast or enhanced podcast that takes us "back in time" about a computer history topic they learn about during their //**Journey Inside Computers**// travels. Students will then discuss their perceptions as to why this information is important to know and how it might help in our lives today.

Try this site, __**The Blobz Guide to Electric Circuits**__, for helping to understand how electricity works with switches, circuits, etc.:

• Spreadsheets:
We have access to three spreadsheets applications; Microsoft Excel, iWorks Numbers, and Google Docs. Students work through four spreadsheet labs and a final test which tests them on spreadsheet setup/organization/formatting, formulas & functions, various types of graph/chart applications, etc.

• “Something I Have Always Wondered” iMovie:
Students research the answers or theories to a question about something they have always wondered about. They organize and assemble their research and conclusions with images and audio that support them create a still picture iMovie that not only teaches others the answer to their question, but is attention grabbing & creates a mood for their audience. (It should illustrate proper & creative use of the iMovie application by utilizing many of its tools & sister applications such as iTunes & iPhoto, as well as use of iSight, scanners, &/or digital cameras.) They will compress these into QuickTime format & present them to their peers for constructive criticism. Then we will discuss how an application such as iMovie affects their lives, our society, schools, work places, etc. We will also talk about how the technology we used for this project promotes and inhibits learning and thinking.

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