Ms. Strother's Class

and Anna

and Grace

and Kiran
and Jack

We started our Photoshop project today – students are layering photos of themselves and have accepted the challenge of Photoshop!

SCDS students increase their cultural awareness and learn the ancient Chinese game of mah jong.
How to play Mah Jong

The students have had a busy week; they received their laptops on Monday and are delving into the mysteries of Excel. We’re exploring what Excel can do using formulas: the students are researching conversion rates and making tables of different unit conversions. They also took a water use survey in which Excel was used to calculate their average water use (based on a rainy Saturday at home), which the students found very interesting.

Students began their study of Word 2007 in conjunction with searching the Internet for tech terminology, relevant to their technology use in the classroom and beyond.

The students were challenged to create layered photos of themselves in Adobe, part of the task was figuring out how to accomplish this on their own.

The students have started their Alice group project for the final weeks of the quarter. They have a choice of animating a story with text, creating an interactive game, or a music video. The students will incorporate all of the parameters that they have learned thus far; methods, functions, and events.

Students are learning the Excel program using a self-teaching method. They made unit conversion tables in Excel of various conversions useful everyday (English to metric, monetary, simple formulaic) and were tasked to figure out the Excel formulas for themselves, finding out the unit conversions using Google if they didn’t know them beforehand.