Digital Citizenship & Digital Leadership

Mrs. Jones and I worked together on a Digital Citizenship and Digital Leadership lesson over the past week.  During this lesson the students did some role playing to find out how one's digital footprint can impact them in their lives.  The students then created presentation using Thinglink in which they explored a topic further.  Below are some examples of what the students create, they also presented their information to their classmates.  I was impressed with the amount of knowledge our students have and all the steps they doing to make sure that they are not only good digital citizens, but also good digital leaders.

Staying Safe Online

Cyberbullying

Digital Footprint

January 18 - January 22

This has been a busy week as the end of the end of a grading is arriving.  Mrs. Serkowski and I worked on a internet etiquette and email lesson.  There was discussion and on what internet etiquette encompasses as well as dissecting the parts of an e-mail.  Students worked on sending e-mails with attachments and responding appropriately to e-mails.

Mrs. Murphy's Spanish class used the Web tool Poster my Wall to create an online scrapbook in which they needed to insert images about things that they like or do not like.  Then they needed to come up with sentences in Spanish they explained the image.

Mr. Stillman brought his students in on Wednesday when we had shortened classes due to the early dismissal day.  Students were able to check out books and take a look at some of the new titles in the library.

Mrs. Jones' students are finishing up their Thinglink project on a variety of digital citizenship and digital leadership topics.  Presentations will begin on Friday and finish up on Monday.

January 11 - Januray 15

This week the library was busy with students working on their STAR testing for math and language arts.  Even though the library was busy with testing students were doing research with a variety of books and e-book in their classrooms.  I was able to go into Mrs. Jones' Communications class to begin a discussion on Digital Citizenship, discussing how students can protect their online identity.  The class will be finishing up a project involving digital citizenship next week.

Mrs. Murphy's visited and worked on their Mi Vida Loca project as well as Kahoot to review verbs.

Chromebook carts arrived for the 7th grade and World Language teachers.  Staff members are excited to have access to technology on a regular basis.  It was a little overwhelming to see 15 carts arrive in the library all at one time, but they are almost all ready to go to their new homes!

January 4 - January 8

To kick off the new year Battle of the Books students received their t-shirts as the upcoming battle day will arrive soon.  Students did a lot of reading over the break to make sure that they're ready.

As far as library activities go this week, we've been busy.  Mrs. Arenz brought in her careers class to learn how to use Noodle Tools for their citations as well as check out a book that relates to a career that they are doing their project on.

Mrs. Grau was in the library with her students finishing up their research and presentation on their state that was started prior to winter break. It's been great seeing all of the progress they made on their presentation.

Mr. Hopper's class came in to work on researching information for their Revolutionary War project and to get a quick refresher in making citations with Noodle Tools.  Students spent time finding books and resources to help them gather information

Mrs. Honn's class visited on Friday to complete their presentations on the different Native American tribes of Wisconsin.  After their slideshows were complete the students used audio recorders to explain their topic in more detail and we then inserted their audio in the presentation.