Technology+Literacy+Curriculum

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Welcome to Technology Literacy
Students will listen to an overview of the Technology Literacy semester, receive their computer/seating assignments, and log on to the school network (wpsnet). Students will use Internet Explorer, the Middle School Homepage(s), Students tab, and other resources available to them and their parents (including the Grade 6 Tech Literacy Curriculum & Technology Blog).

Today we will:
 * Introductions
 * Review Rules & Expectations – PowerPoint presentation
 * Log on to school network (wpsnet)
 * Open Internet Explorer, look at the middle school homepages and links
 * Open Microsoft Word to become more familiar with Microsoft Word 7



Acceptable Use and E-Mail
Students will review and discuss the school rules and the Acceptable User Agreement for responsible use of computers and networks, using the Web 2.0 tool www.scrumblr.ca. Students will log onto school email accounts and send a practice e-mail to their teacher.

Today we will:
 * Receive seating assignment
 * Answer class hook question using www.scrumblr.ca
 * Log on to school e-mail accounts, send practice e-mails
 * Review Digital Acceptable Use Agreement DTAUA [[file:Waltham AUA.pdf]]

H drives and Type to Learn4
Students will organize their files on the server space (H:drive )by creating new folders and editing/deleting. Students will log onto TTL4, take the keyboarding assessment, and begin practicing at appropriate keyboarding level. Students will create a Microsoft Word document for their passwords, and save their TTL4 password (and all passwords) in this document. Today we will: Double click for instructions on installing TYPE TO LEARN 4 on your home computer!
 * Assess our keyboarding skills in the hook activity.
 * Organize H: drives & create new folders (ES, MS / GRADE 6, 7, 8 / Tech Lit).
 * Log on to //Type to Learn 4// (TTL4) and complete pre-test.
 * Create “Passwords” document in //Microsoft Word//, save to Tech Lit folder, save TTL4 username and password.
 * E-mail your teacher what lesson you are in on TTL 4.

Word Printing E-Mail Wordle
Students will use menus in Microsoft Word to edit, format, and print a document. Students will write and edit a document using spell-checker and grammar resources in Microsoft Word. Students will select a printer, use print preview, and print with proper page set up and organization. Students will copy and paste text and images within a document. Email final project to your teacher. Complete Wordle Assignment

Today we will:
 * TTL4 ten minutes
 * Microsoft Word - All About Me assignment

NoodleTools
Students will create a proper citations for copyrighted material (e.g. text, images, website) found on the Internet.

Today we will:
 * TTL4 ten minutes
 * Log on to Noodle Tools, create a username and password, and add both to your passwords doucument on your H: Drive
 * Mrs. May/Ms. Clerkin will co-teach the lesson on Noodle Tools

Google Apps
Students will use online tools (Google Apps for Education) to gather and share information collaboratively with other students.

Today we will:
 * TTL4 ten minutes
 * Introduction to Google Apps, distribute account information, log in and change password
 * Store password in passwords docs on H: drive
 * Make a copy of the ___All About Me Scavenger Hunt Google Doc__
 * Rename the document & complete the activity
 * Share Google Doc with the whole class & teacher (Community Building)

PhotoStory 3
Students will create a project that uses text, graphics, audio, and video with proper citations to communicate ideas using PhotoStory 3. Students will write a Haiku poem and research pictures on the Internet to compliment the poem.

Today we will:
 * TTL4 ten minutes
 * Review: Rules of Haiku
 * Show exemplars of digital haiku poems create by last class
 * Copy Google Doc instructions Project Instructions rename the document, and complete the assignment
 * When finished, save the movie to your H:Drive and copy to shared folder. [[file:New+haiku+rubric[1].doc]]
 * Type To Learn or go to the Wiki and do Typing sites http://gr6.wikispaces.com/activities
 * Or click on this link when you have finished your assignment

Cyberbullying & Internet Safety
Students will define cyberbulling and describe strategies to deal with such a situation, including how to annonoymously report incidents to school officials. Students will describe potential risks and dangers associated with various forms of online communication. Students will recognize the public exposure of e-mail and appropriate e-mail etiquette Students will use painting and drawing applications to create and edit work.

Today we will: TTL4 ten minutes Discuss Cyberbullying & Internet Safety with school resource officer Show Cyber Bullying exemplar posters Watch Ryan Halligan Video & Netsmartz Videos [|Click here] Sketch out cyber bullying poster on paper Demonstrate basics of Microsoft Paint Create posters in Microsoft Paint and save on H:drives



Media Literacy
Goal
 * Students will analyze media messages and determine if their purpose is to inform, persuade, or entertain.

Today we will: - TTL4 Ten Minutes - Review PBS Website on [] and discuss advertising placement (ad detective). - Control + Click on [|Create your own ad (demo how to save using Snipping Tools)] - Open & save a copy of the Ad Reflection document in Google Docs - Answer the questions and share Google document with teacher. - Independent work, control+ click on the following link: [|__http://pbskids.org/dontbuyit/advertisingtricks/whatsinanad.html__] - Watch the commercials and answer the polls questions about each one.

Microsoft Excel
Goal
 * Working in pairs, you will: use the Internet to locate the calorie totals of your favorite fast food items, enter the data into an Excel spreadsheet, and create forumlas and a pie chart that shows the percent of calories of each item.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 18px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">You will view a spreadsheet in MS Excel, identify and explain a cell, column, row.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 18px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">You will enter data and perform calculations, observing the changes that occur.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 18px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Today we will: <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 18px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">- Practice keyboarding skills for 10 minutes in Type to Learn 4 <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 18px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">- Take a pre-assessment. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 18px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">- Discuss fast food preferences and [|visit website] to find calories & fat calories of favorite items. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 18px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">- Open //Microsoft Excel//, review and discuss cells, rows, addresses, columns, etc. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 18px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">-Enter calories & fat calories in spreadsheet. Create a formula to calculate non-fat calories and total calories. Project Instructions

**<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0000ff; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">MS Excel Screencasts **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">[|Creating a spreadsheet] **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">[|Finding calorie info and recording into spreadsheet] **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">[|Creating a formula in spreadsheet (addition/subtraction)] **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">[|Creating a formula in spreadsheet (division)] **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">[|Adding totals (AUTO SUM) in spreadsheets] **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">[|Creating a bar chart from data in spreadsheet] **
 * [|Formatting an Excel spreadsheet (fonts, headings)]**
 * [|More formatting (inserting rows, adding titles, merge)]**

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: calibri; font-size: 18px; vertical-align: baseline;">[|http://static.schoolrack.com/files/9257/254793/Fast_Food_Project_II_2009.pdf]

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0000ff; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 18px; vertical-align: baseline;">[|http://static.schoolrack.com/files/9257/254795/Grade_Rubric.pdf]

Class 18
Goal Students will be introduced to databases.

Today we will: Mrs. May & Ms. Clerkin will co-teach a lesson on databases that are used in the library

Classes 19 - 23
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 18px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Wikispaces Internet Safety Collaborative Final Project

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 18px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Goals
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 18px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Students will use a wiki to collaborate on a project that will strengthen their understanding of Internet safety, ethics, and cyberbullying.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 18px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Students will conduct research on the potential risks and dangers associated with online communication.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 18px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Students will recognize the public exposure of email and understand the outline the basics of email etiquette
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 18px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Students will recognize potential opportunities for unwanted exposure online.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 18px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Students will learn how social networking sites use, store, and sell information offered by users, and explore ways to protect one’s privacy online.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 18px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Students will define the term “digital footprint” and begin tracking how much information they have and should disclose on the Internet.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 18px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Today we will: <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 18px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">- Introduce and review Wikispaces, receive and save account information, review group assignments, log in to Wikispaces <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 18px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">- Open and save Google Doc checklist of requirements for each page <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 18px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">- Begin research on each page <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 18px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">- Demo of Wikispaces features, in cluding sharing links & uploading pictures and videos. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 18px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">- Review Google Doc checklist of requirements for each page <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 18px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">-Review exemplar Wiki.

Bullying & Cyber Bullying Websites
Objective: Students will create a website on the topic of bullying and cyberbullying using Weebly.com

Day 1 Agenda:

> **Goal - Students will have a better understanding of the new Massachusetts anti-bullying laws**
 * Visit from school Safety Officer, and discussion about the law, bullying, cyber bullying and prevention
 * Open and save storyboard on H: drive [[file:Storyboard+for+Bullying.ppt]]
 * Review criteria for each page

Day 2 Agenda:
 * Visit McDevitt Technology Blog to view website created by 6th grade students
 * Start your research
 * Look through resources listed below, read & gather information for each web page, save information in PPT template
 * Goal - Students will gather resources and information needed to create an informative Cyber Bullying website.**

Day 3 Agenda:
 * Continue research
 * Continue saving information (including source information in PowerPoint template)
 * Save images for website on H: drive
 * Goal -Students will finish research and find appropriate pictures to add to the website they will create.**

Day 4 Agenda:
 * Log onto [|www.weebly.com]
 * Create an account (do this with teacher only)
 * Begin buildling web pages
 * Goal - Students will create a Cyberbullying website using Weebly.com.**

Resources for Research and Statistics:
 * [|Video Conference] with The White House on Cyberbullying
 * [|People Magazine Article]on Bullying and Cyberbullying
 * [|Creative Commons]Use to search for pictures (save as jpeg files)
 * [|Sweet Search]Use to search for pictures (save as jpeg files)
 * [|Ryan Halligan Video.]
 * [|Ryan Patrick Halligan Website]
 * [|www.stopbullyingnow.hrsa.gov]
 * [|www.wiredsafety.org]
 * [|www.stopbullyingspeakup.com]
 * [|www.kidshealth.org]
 * []
 * http://www.cyberbullying.ca - Features examples of cyberbullying and what can be done about it.
 * http://www.isafe.org/channels/sub.php?ch=op⊂_id=media_cyber_bullying - i-Safe offers statistical data and tips related to cyberbullying.

Resources for Web Pages: > Checks your email to make sure you don't send out angry notes or email that people may take the wrong way. This free online app scans your emails for signs of aggression, desperation and stupidity. > http://www.tonecheck.com > Includes lots of information about handling online bullies. > http://www.internetsuperheroes.org/cyberbullying/ > Software that tracks where messages come from. > http://www.emailtrackerpro.com > Helps you avoid certain people on social networks, like bullies or others who are bothering you. > http://www.avoidr.org
 * ToneCheck - Checks Your Language
 * Internet Superheroes: Cyberbullying
 * Mail Tracker
 * Avoidr

**Grading Rubric** **Each Page (including the homepage) should include:**
 * Different picture(s) on each page - 20 points
 * Factual, relevant information in your own words on each page - 20 points
 * At least one link related to the topic on each page - 20 points
 * Bibliography with correct Noodle Tools formatting - 20 points
 * Correct spelling, grammar, and punctuation - 20 points

Total - 100 Points

Google Earth Project


Google Earth Timeline Project
 * Creating a Google Earth Timeline about you!
 * Your teacher will demonstrate how to create a Google Earth timeline. In the following activity, you will map out significant dates & locations in your life. For example, the date and location of your birth, the approximate date and location of any trips you and your family have taken, the date and location of the birth of a sibling, parent, etc. After the demonstration, click on the instructions below to begin your project!
 * [[file:Create a Google Earth Timeline.doc]]
 * When you finish, be sure to minimize the folder you created.
 * Log into Type to Learn (TTL) under your name (located in START bar).
 * Go to your lesson, or start at the beginning.

Google Sites - Creating a Website
Instructions:
 * Think about what makes a web site a good one...images, information, navigation, and organization. Now, compile information on your topic in a word document, and get ready to make your own web site!**

Write an introductory paragraph for your homepage detailing what the site is about. Gather information on the following topics for a minimum of **5 Navagation pages. Each page (including the Homepage) should include the following: Creating a Google Sites(This was done together with the class, here is a review).
 * Correct spelling, grammar, punctuation.
 * At least one link related to the topic.
 * Different fonts/sizes & colors.
 * A picture related to the topic.

Useful Sites, Documents, & Information
Online Activities Page - Click here to work on keyboarding skills! When you have finished your assignment - Click here for online activities. [|Make an Animation!] [|Internet Safety Scavenger Hunt] [|Create a Wordle Poster] [|Paint a picture using ArtPad] Directions for Creating a Wordle [|Make an online poster using Scrumblr] [|talking calculator]|Help to do your math homework

Visit these sites for FUN, INTERACTIVE math games: [|Click on the “lessons” button, complete the lessons in order, or jump around.] [|Click on the LESSONS tab on the left under the HOME tab - MATH SITE]