Helpful Ideas to Get Students Logged Into Computers/Chromebooks
Whether you're out sick or have a planned day out of the computer lab, writing sub plans is time consuming and often stressful
Elevate your computer lab decor with this set of 9 retro groovy touch typing pennants and create a keyboarding tip banner bulletin board to reference all year long. Specifically tailored for upper elementary and middle school students, each pennant showcases a key touch typing tip that promotes effective and ergonomic typing habits. Looks great hung above the coordinating giant keyboard or display along the top of the whiteboard for quick reference. By integrating these tips, students can... enhance their typing speed boost accuracy reduce the risk of strain Hang them as gentle reminders and stylish motivators, ensuring your students type confidently and correctly! PDF file includes: 9 pennants color and blackline use the included keyboard keys to create a complete display **Pennants NOT editable at this time.** More Retro Groovy Tech Decor
This Elementary Technology Curriculum includes over 200 lessons and activities for grades K-5 that will save you so much time coming up with what to do in the computer lab. It is ideal for a technology teacher, media specialist, tech facilitator, or grade level teachers with mandatory lab time. All of the work is done for you! This is for you if: You want students who can log in, access any programs, type efficiently, and use technology to learn. You want students who are confident in using the technology required for standardized testing. You have limited time– in one 45 minute session per week, your students can develop technology literacy while completing engaging projects. You need it to be effortless for YOU and fun for your students. My name is Brittany Washburn and I’m an educator obsessed with ed tech. This curriculum was created over 3 school years when I had nothing for materials for my technology specials. I was spending my nights and weekends scouring Pinterest and Google for ideas because I knew my students deserved engaging lessons even if I had to do everything from scratch. I found myself exhausted and frustrated and just knew there had to be an easier way. That is when I discovered the magic of having my own class website and screencasting my instructions. I created a modified-flipped-classroom before I even knew that was a thing. Students were working at their own pace and they stopped asking me to repeat instructions. I felt like I had struck gold! I tested and perfected the activities with them and now I’ve made them available to you!
Setting up your technology classroom is a breeze with these 5 tips to get you started. From decor to space planning I've got you covered.
Smart school computer lab management tips for technology teachers and classroom teachers that spend time in their school computer lab.
Grab a free set of large printable Chromebook keyboard keys and learn ideas for using them in the classroom. Plus check out this huge printable Chromebook Keyboard Bulletin Board set perfect for a hallway or computer lab display for teachers using Google Classroom. Printing & Assembling Keyboards I created a set of printable keyboard keys that can be used in a bunch of fun ways I'll detail in this post. First, grab the free set in my free resource library (or sign up at the end of this post), which includes the letters A-Z in both upper and lower case.
This Elementary Technology Curriculum includes over 200 lessons and activities for grades K-5 that will save you so much time coming up with what to do in the computer lab. It is ideal for a technology teacher, media specialist, tech facilitator, or grade level teachers with mandatory lab time. All of the work is done for you! This is for you if: You want students who can log in, access any programs, type efficiently, and use technology to learn. You want students who are confident in using the technology required for standardized testing. You have limited time– in one 45 minute session per week, your students can develop technology literacy while completing engaging projects. You need it to be effortless for YOU and fun for your students. My name is Brittany Washburn and I’m an educator obsessed with ed tech. This curriculum was created over 3 school years when I had nothing for materials for my technology specials. I was spending my nights and weekends scouring Pinterest and Google for ideas because I knew my students deserved engaging lessons even if I had to do everything from scratch. I found myself exhausted and frustrated and just knew there had to be an easier way. That is when I discovered the magic of having my own class website and screencasting my instructions. I created a modified-flipped-classroom before I even knew that was a thing. Students were working at their own pace and they stopped asking me to repeat instructions. I felt like I had struck gold! I tested and perfected the activities with them and now I’ve made them available to you!
The Code Breakers Activity Pack includes: -32 Sight Word "Code Breaker" activities -32 Answer Keys -A cover page for teachers to make their own binder -Teacher Tracker so that you can keep track of lists you have assigned! *There are 5 different "Code Keys" used throughout to make the pack more fun for students! My students LOVE these activities because they're fun, rewarding, and each one is different! Students use the code at the top of each page to solve letters and build each sight word in their list! ****************************************************************** Use this pack of 32 Code Breaker activities to teach and practice ALL Dolch sight words with your students throughout the year! These activities are great for: -Distance Learning Packets -Center Work -Morning Work -Substitute Activities -Homework -Supplemental Practice -and much, much more!
This Elementary Technology Curriculum includes over 200 lessons and activities for grades K-5 that will save you so much time coming up with what to do in the computer lab. It is ideal for a technology teacher, media specialist, tech facilitator, or grade level teachers with mandatory lab time. All of the work is done for you! This is for you if: You want students who can log in, access any programs, type efficiently, and use technology to learn. You want students who are confident in using the technology required for standardized testing. You have limited time– in one 45 minute session per week, your students can develop technology literacy while completing engaging projects. You need it to be effortless for YOU and fun for your students. My name is Brittany Washburn and I’m an educator obsessed with ed tech. This curriculum was created over 3 school years when I had nothing for materials for my technology specials. I was spending my nights and weekends scouring Pinterest and Google for ideas because I knew my students deserved engaging lessons even if I had to do everything from scratch. I found myself exhausted and frustrated and just knew there had to be an easier way. That is when I discovered the magic of having my own class website and screencasting my instructions. I created a modified-flipped-classroom before I even knew that was a thing. Students were working at their own pace and they stopped asking me to repeat instructions. I felt like I had struck gold! I tested and perfected the activities with them and now I’ve made them available to you!
everything from selecting the appropriate typing software to awarding the winners, ensuring that you have all the necessary information to make your competition a triumph.
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These bulletin board ideas for the computer lab are sure to inspire!
These bulletin board ideas for the computer lab are sure to inspire!
Hi y'all! Anyone else out there struggling with how to display typing results in a way that feels rewarding for the students but doesn't kill you by making you update it too frequently? I've been there. After year five of teaching tech, I've settled on a system that I like. My administrator also loves it because he can highlight some of our best typists when he gives tours of the school (win-win!). The overview: The board is divided into the separate Words Per Minute (wpm) goals. Each wpm goal is color-coded and that color represents a given grade level. When a student reaches the goal for their grade level, they get added to the board! Their new goal is to see if they can progress their skills to make it into the next grade level's goal. Move their name to that new goal section once they achieve it. I also have a competition element to my computer classes so I have another section on the same board titled "Leading Class" and "Grade Level MVP." Whichever teacher's class has the highest typing average gets put in the "Leading Class" section and whatever student (within the winning class) had the largest margin of improvement gets their name in the "Grade Level MVP" section. Some tips: I only record scores for my 2nd-6th graders because Kinder and 1st have enough to concentrate on just by learning to recognize some typing basics. I only record scores on typing "competition" days - if they achieve a typing goal on a practice day, I congratulate them and tell them that I will jot it down to add as their score on competition days. By doing this, I eliminate the number of times that I end up printing new names of students to add to the board. I increment my typing goals by 5 wpm for each grade, starting with 10 wpm. I have found this to be a challenge for my young typists, but it is attainable! I added a 40+ section to the board because I wanted the 6th graders to have something to strive for. I arrange the 40+ typists from highest to lowest for further competitive motivation. I also list their exact wpm in this section. I do this by putting little round number tiles (seen above in pink) next to their names so I can update them as frequently as they improve. I do NOT add students to sections that are below their grade level goal. For example: the third grade goal is 15 wpm. If 3rd grade Jonny types 12 wpm, I do not add him to the 2nd grade goal section - he must meet his own grade level goal to qualify to be on the board. The grade level MVP is the most improved typing scorer because if I did the highest overall score, it would nearly always be the same students. Details about the process: So you know how I said this was supposed to limit how often I am updating the board... it really does! I record a typing grade (competition days) twice per trimester so a total of 6 times per school year. I make sure to schedule the competition days in the same week for each grade level that way I can print all the new names and update the "Leading Class" and "MVP" sections all at once. In my gradebook, I highlight scores that qualify students to make it on the board. I use a secondary highlighter color for students who just need to be moved from one section of the board to another (that way I don't recreate the same student's name twice). After printing the newly needed names (on their corresponding grade level paper color), I start with removing the students who need to be moved. I re-staple them up in their new sections. Then, add the new names! Details about the supplies: - I love the bright colors so I used Astrobright "Happy" colors - found here. I used maybe a third of the ream, if that. - Choosing white as a butcher paper background worked out awesome because I could print the "Leading Class" and "MVP" on regular printer paper and not have to worry about my perfectionist cutting struggles (it's a problem). So what do you think? How do you display your typing scores? Drop me a comment below, I'd love to hear from you! Llama love, Sam
Makayla is a technology teacher with some cool hacks and ideas! Read on to get a free computer log in card for your students!
So you have survived the first computer lesson with your Kindergarten class and now you want to teach them how to login for themselves. It will depend of course, on how usernames and passwords have been set at your school as to how you approach this. At the school where I teach computers, the Kinder classes have a class username and password. For simplicity, the username and password are the same. Before the lesson, I made some color coded login cards. While in the classroom, the little learners practiced 'typing' on their login cards. We discussed the colors and order of the letters. We talked about uppercase and lowercase letters, said the sound and the letter names. We showed our partners how we could type our username and password. The little learners even searched for the letters in their own name. Who knew there was so much learning to be had with logins? When we arrived at the computer lab, the little learners were ready to try typing their username and password on a real keyboard. After I demonstrated typing the username and password (and made a few mistakes accidentally-on purpose to introduce backspace), the little learners took their login cards to their computer. I'm going to be honest here. This color coded login card is not a miracle worker. It did take three adults 30 minutes to guide the class in this process. I did learn that next time I introduce a Kinder class to computers, I will spend more time on light and quick finger touches on the keyboard! But I will say that each little learner did login that day, and a month on the login cards continue to support the little learners as they become independent loggerinerers (that's totally a word, right?). Best of all is the smile on their faces when they have done it all by themselves for the first time! Priceless! Want to make your own color coded keyboards? Click HERE or the image above to grab your copy!
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I put together weekly plans for the computer lab for grades K-5. These plans include everything you need so that the planning is done for you.
So you got the technology teaching job, now what? Whether you're coming from the general ed classroom or you're a brand new teacher,
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Whether you're out sick or have a planned day out of the computer lab, writing sub plans is time consuming and often stressful
Keyboarding is one of my favorite tech skills to teach. In this blog post I'm sharing 4 tips and tricks for typing with elementary students.
My Favorite Way to Cover Technology Expectations, or technology rules, for Chromebook, iPad and Laptop/Computer Users in the Elementary Classroom
Attention all elementary computer lab teachers! Are you tired of spending countless hours planning your technology curriculum? Look no further than our K-5 Technology Activities bundle with a Pacing Guide that will take the stress off your plate and leave you with more time to focus on your students...
Has your classroom turned into a 1:1 Chromebook Classroom and you are unsure of how to utilize these devices each day? Come learn about some meaningful ways to integrate these devices into your elementary classroom!
**Interested in more Elementary Computer Science lessons? Click Here! Growing Flower Differentiated Algorithm This easy no-prep unplugged coding / computer science activity is a great way to introduce elementary students to the important computer science foundational skill of creating algorithms! Differentiated: Contains two picture sequencing versions of the growing flower algorithm and two written versions so any level can participate. Simply print and use for easy STEM integration during morning work, center time, whole group computer science lesson, during a plants or living things science unit, or even for easy sub plans to have on hand.
Bundle of activities that can be used as stations for Kindergarten and 1st Grade students in the computer lab. Activity types include: •Mouse and trackpad practice on paper •Coloring pages to learn the parts of the computer •Digital activities to learn and review the computer parts •Paper keyboard practice activities •Robot task cards to review computer parts and learn coding concepts •Sorting activities to learn coding concepts This is a bundle of already created resources and does not include lesson plans or pacing guides. Use the activities in any order you see fit with any grade level(s) you want. Product Terms: Copyright © Brittany Washburn 2022. Downloading this file entitles you to ONE classroom (computer lab) use. You may use this with multiple classes but may not share with any other teachers. Copying for more than one teacher, classroom, department, school, or school system is prohibited. This product may not be distributed or displayed digitally for public view. Failure to comply is a copyright infringement and a violation of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). Clipart and elements found in this file are copyrighted and cannot be extracted and used outside of this file without permission or license. If multiple licenses are needed for use my more than one teacher or in more than one computer lab, send them here to download the file. If you would like to get updates on NEW and CURRENT resources for technology teachers... SIGN UP to receive weekly email lesson plans! FOLLOW me on Teachers Pay Teachers! VISIT Brittany’s Blog! JOIN the Technology Teacher Facebook Group! FOLLOW me on Pinterest! FOLLOW me on Facebook! FOLLOW me on Instagram!
Best tips for Kindergarten students in the computer lab at the beginning of the school year for technology teachers
Are you a new tech teacher? This blog post is for you! It's filled with tips, ideas, and resources to make help you in your new position.
Freedom Homeschooling lists free high-quality homeschool technology and computer skills curriculum for all grades.
Over 200 lessons and activities for grades K-5 that will make a great addition to your technology curriculum. These lesson plans and activities will save you so much time coming up with what to do during your computer lab time. Ideal for a technology teacher or grade level teachers with mandatory lab time. All of the work is done for you!
Over 200 lessons and activities for grades K-5 that will make a great addition to your technology curriculum. These lesson plans and activities will save you so much time coming up with what to do during your computer lab time. Ideal for a technology teacher or grade level teachers with mandatory lab time. All of the work is done for you!
Amazing Mazes resource round-up- This post features a Maze Escape Room and 3 STEM Projects. Perfect for a STEM lab or regular elementary classroom.
Come learn about my FAVORITE technology tools for digital communication and collaboration with elementary students. Use these tools with Chromebooks, laptops, computers and some can even be used with iPads. Global learning is making its way into the classroom and we need to make sure our students are prepared so they can make the most of these authentic learning experiences!
Teaching Digital Citizenship in Kindergarten.
Help kids learn keyboarding and home row typing skills using the many websites, apps, and programs recommended in this post! What to Look for in a Typing Program? When looking for a program, website, or app to teach elementary students to type there are a few things to consider. For best results, you will want students to use a complete typing curriculum with video lessons and natural progression from home row, to vertical neighbors, and beyond. In addition, I look for sites that also include: a variety of games to practice and keep kids engaged adaptive tech that learns a
