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.

Thursday, September 25, 2008

Podsafe Music

In class we are always looking for music that can be legally used in our videos. I learned something new today. The term for this music - music that can be legally used on the web and distributed to others is 'Podsafe Music'.
I found a listing of sites that provide podsafe music at the website learninginhand.com: Have fun listening!
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Thursday, September 11, 2008

Copyright Laws

Copyright Laws have been a hot topic of conversation in our classes this week. There are many videos and resources out on the web to help with this discussion, but following is a link to one that I thought was good. It is specifically talking to teachers - but the bit at the end regarding PowerPoint does a good job explaining why you can't use any song/image you want. Even if it is "just for a school project."
http://www.teachertube.com/view_video.php?viewkey=2bd0fa111d92a1afeb45
Enjoy!
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Friday, September 5, 2008

2008-09

Welcome back my Digital Natives! I hope you had a relaxing summer and are all set to begin the journey of collaborative learning with your peers. (And when I say peers, I don't mean just your JRG peers. I mean your global peers.) This year I hope to get you communicating with peers from all over the world.
One way we are going to begin is by accessing our Google Student E-mail Accounts. The address to the portal is also on the JRG website.
Here is a quick little video on how Google Docs work.
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