Offering real life experiences is a goal of ours at J.R. Gerritts Middle School. We encourage our students to become life long learners and develop skills to help them take charge of their own learning and to create their own learning opportunities.
The Computer Applications Department at J.R. Gerritts Middle School is designed to prepare our students for the 21st Century. Students are engaging in technical applications more and more and we strive to make sure our students are ready.
We not only teach the technical abilities, but also the less concrete aspects. We teach our students how to critically think through a task, work in teams collaboratively and how to reach out to the global community using the technology readily available to us.

Tuesday, January 29, 2008

Interesting Article

MySpace and Attorneys General in web safety agreement:

Read the article published on the NBC26 website:


http://www.nbc26.com/news/tech/13804237.html

Enjoy :)

Thursday, January 24, 2008

Already 3rd Quarter!

This is the first week of the 3rd quarter! Where has the time gone?
Here's what we did 2nd quarter:
Digital Video Editing the students created an awesome video highlighting each of the departments at JRG! They spent soo much time working on these. I can't wait to show them off. (A few groups have some changes to make - if that's you... please come in ASAP!)
Elements of Design!!! We worked sooo hard on the Yearbook this year. We still have work to go on this one, too, but I can't wait to see the final project! It's going to be great! What a yearbook staff!! This class also created some wonderful brochures and calendars! (Many gave their calendars as gifts!)
WebPage Design students worked hard all year on their websites. They learned how to create navigation bars, animations and banners. Some students also found how to add music and videos!
CompApp7 students began the quarter with an Internet Safety presentation by Officer Slotke. This accompanied their new e-mail accounts. The students learned the ins and outs of MS Excel as well as created an on-line portfolio using the Wisconsin Careers website.