Saturday, February 28, 2015

Ads R Us!


Fifth grade students in Mrs. Stoebe's Next Generation Digital Classroom created ads for a cereal after studying the various ad techniques used by the media.  

They went on to create their own scripts for their cereal ad and took turns filming each other;s commercials.  As a final wrap up to the project, students viewed peer commercials and left comments using a Google Form.  The lesson used technology and collaboration at every turn!


Friday, February 27, 2015

Interview With Mrs. Uselman, Former Librarian at TVES

Students in Broadcast conducted an interview with our former librarian, Ami Uselman, on Leadership Day. The students collaborated on Google Drive, formulated their questions, and shared them with Mrs. Uselman, along with an invitation to interview her.

On Leadership Day, Mrs. Uselman arrived and the camera crew set up her interview. Two students asked questions, while one video taped it. 

Once complete, the students used Coral Movie Studio to edit and produce the video. Once editing was finished, they produced the final video, uploaded it to the school's YouTube account and shared with everyone! 



Thursday, February 26, 2015

Researching Music Composers



Fourth graders did a composer research project using Google Slides in Mrs. Caffey's music class. Each group was assigned a composer to research. They used various databases, such as World Book Online and Britannica Elementary to find their composer.

They worked in pairs, and were in charge of making their Google Slides. They presented their class the work they did on their composer.
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Johann Sebastian Bach

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Mrs. Gunn's kindergarten class researched animals and recorded facts that they learned.  The website used was Pebblego.com

Wednesday, February 25, 2015

First Graders Use Powerpoint to Publish their Animal Research

Students in Miss Schlaudt's First Grade researched animals and presented their research from a PowerPoint that they created. They used many technology skills to create this awesome project. Way to go kids!


Students Research Texas Heros

4th grade students work with Mrs. Copeland in the TVE library to learn presentation skills on Learning.com and learn to research Texas Revolution Heroes.

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Geo-Boards Online in First Grade

The first grade students used an online Geo-board program to supplement their geometry math lesson.


The website they used was http://www.mathlearningcenter.org/web-apps/geoboard/



First Graders Use a Webcam for the First Time

Students in First Grade used a webcam to take a picture of their favorite body part. After taking their close up picture, they printed it in black and white. They wrote a poem about the best part of them and cut out their picture that they took for their final copy.

Monday, February 23, 2015

Second graders used an interactive game called Kahoot
to assess their prior knowledge of patterns in the sky.



Thursday, February 12, 2015

Publishing Poetry

Second graders published their acrostic poems using  http://www.readwritethink.org/files/resources/interactives/acrostic/




Learning to Search for Library Resources

Second graders learned to search for fiction books using e-library on the Dell Venue Tablets.  






Wednesday, February 11, 2015

Second grade students are identifying, sorting, combining, and comparing coins through a fun game from http://www.hbschool.com/activity/lets_compare/. 


Tuesday, February 10, 2015

Famous Quotes and QR Codes!

Students in Mrs. Timson's third grade class have been researching famous African Americans. Included in their research was a famous quote by that person.

Using Vocaroo, an online audio recording site, students recorded themselves, reading the quote. They saved the recording URL,  and uploaded the URL to a QR code generator. Students then pasted the QR code into a Google Doc, which they printed. Parents enjoyed launching the QR code and hearing their children's voices! It was a fun experience.