I am testing out Perrysburg Juhior High and my partner teacher is Lisa. She is a computer teacher and has also worked as educational technologist.
School website: http://www.perrysburg.k12.oh.us/schools/perrysburg-jr-high-school
American school schedules are little bit different.
They start at 7.30-8.00 and end around 2-3.
Lessons are 42 minutes and then there is time to move to another class in 4 minutes of time. Students have also 1 hour lunch break in-between somewhere. All classes are the same 8 hour day for students first from 12 grades. Computers is learned as a period eg. 2-3 months every day one lesson and that is it.
All students have school emaili that is provided from Google.
At computer parts this school has mac computer, some sites are restricted and student-teacher computer usage is monitored. In content vise they also learn a lot of internet safety and copyright law and other that we learn in Estonia. Assessment is done by rubrics. There is no curricula and official testing, but sometimes it is a good thing also as technology and ideas that are needed changes rather quickly.
Students are very nice and well behaved, they do a lot of interesting things with computers.
For the future projects:
QR codes
E-safety discussions
Sketchup 3D
Inkscape vector graphics
Web seaching game
Art-ish stuff: ASCII art, scribbler, jacksonpollock, snowflakes and maybe
even web development with free online tools.
Pictures about school and class
School website: http://www.perrysburg.k12.oh.us/schools/perrysburg-jr-high-school
American school schedules are little bit different.
They start at 7.30-8.00 and end around 2-3.
Lessons are 42 minutes and then there is time to move to another class in 4 minutes of time. Students have also 1 hour lunch break in-between somewhere. All classes are the same 8 hour day for students first from 12 grades. Computers is learned as a period eg. 2-3 months every day one lesson and that is it.
All students have school emaili that is provided from Google.
At computer parts this school has mac computer, some sites are restricted and student-teacher computer usage is monitored. In content vise they also learn a lot of internet safety and copyright law and other that we learn in Estonia. Assessment is done by rubrics. There is no curricula and official testing, but sometimes it is a good thing also as technology and ideas that are needed changes rather quickly.
Students are very nice and well behaved, they do a lot of interesting things with computers.
For the future projects:
QR codes
E-safety discussions
Sketchup 3D
Inkscape vector graphics
Web seaching game
Art-ish stuff: ASCII art, scribbler, jacksonpollock, snowflakes and maybe
even web development with free online tools.
Pictures about school and class
Mõnus on sinu lugusid lugeda :) Hea, et oled nii järjepidev.
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