6th, 7th, and 8th grade students have been hard at work creating their own student websites! This week we have created our sites, personalized to make them our own, and added our own blog pages. If you missed class or need a reminder on how to create a site, change your pictures, or add a blog (along with lots of other cool stuff) visit my video tutorials website HERE. Have fun!!!
Make sure your student brings back their signed paperwork for class! It's for a grade! I have plenty of extras if needed. You can also download it HERE.
Welcome back for another exciting school year!!! I am very excited to meet all of the new upcoming 6th graders as well as seeing all of the familiar faces of my former 7th and 8th grade students! I have some new additions to the curriculum this year that I am very excited about! Over the summer I took a basic computer programming course for educators. The course focuses on the Massachusetts Institute of Technology developed software called Scratch. To put it simply, Scratch is AWESOME and I cannot wait to share it with my students this year. My goal is for my 7th and 8th grade students to be able to create their own computer games by the end of their time in my class! Computer programming is a tool that will help students in all of their classes, not just technology based. The problem solving and critical thinking that it takes to create a computer program is paramount to student development! To top everything off, Scratch is FUN! In addition to Scratch, students will be presented with some of my overall favorite subjects from last year, such as website development and video editing! I look forward to growing and learning with my students this year! I will be available at |
Ms. ShifflettBroadcast Media Communications teacher at WMMS Archives
October 2015
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