Today Nathan Wahl led the class. We started with the BBC site, Dancemat typing, for about 20 minutes and then went into the activity. The typing program is still going very well, I like starting class with this activity. It calms the students down and gets them to focus in on the computers and a specific activity. I hope by continuing to do this typing program, the skills will eventually translate into actual typing improvement. Right now the students just see it as a game, and as soon as we move into an activity, they revert back to to the one-finger typing, individually searching for each letter.
After typing, Nathan introduced the Digital Biography activity. The students had four questions to answer about themselves and write the answers on individual powerpoint slides. We worked on this for the remainder of class. None of the students finished, so next time we are going to finish and help add features and photos to the slides. Then students will be able to present their powerpoint to their peers in Tech Club.
Question: What is a good way to go about searching for images to place on powerpoint slides? Ideally we would use the clip art, but is there a way they could get pictures from the internet as well, or is it too risky to search for photos on the internet? I would imagine a school internet connection has some blocks in place to prevent inappropriate sites from turning up in a search, but I am not totally sure. Any suggestions?
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