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Diaries
Help students document their summers, and hone their technology skills, by keeping diaries. Each of these activities meets a variety of state and national standards for technology and core subject areas.
Grades K-2
Have students use Word Processing software to create a diary to use over the summer. First have them open a new document and give it a filename. Then have them type a title for their diary, as well as a date for each week of the summer (each on a new page). Depending on their home computer access and their typing abilities, have students either save the file and add to it each week from home, or print it out and take it home to write in.
EasyTech units: Word Processing Basics, Introduction to Keyboards, Keyboarding Basics, Computer Basics
Grades 3-5
Discuss with students how diaries and journals are a way of recording thoughts, activities, and feelings and share with them excerpts of published diaries, such as Anne Frank's. Also discuss how journaling should be a free-flow of thoughts so they capture raw feelings without self-censorship. Have students use Word Processing software to write a journal entry in a set amount of time. Tell students not to worry about grammar, formatting, spelling, or organization, and to focus on getting thoughts and feelings into the document. The next day, have students go back to their document to use the Word Processing software's features and tools to edit for grammar, spelling, organization, and more. Encourage students to continue their journaling over the summer.
EasyTech units: Word Processing
Grades 6-8
As a class, discuss the benefits and risks of online diary Web sites. Create a list of features that students think would make a diary web site fun and safe. Then have students use the Web to research various online diary sites and use Database software to log which sites have the features in the list. Discuss which sites are the best for kids, and why. Then work together as a class to write a "Code of Conduct" that would apply to a class diary site.
EasyTech units: Communicating Online, Web Browsing, Multimedia and Databases
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