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.

Monday, October 18, 2010

FREE Online Tutorials

I love it when I find stuff for free! I just found this website that offers free tutorials on so many topics, its great! http://www.gcflearnfree.org/ . Check it out! You can take a tutorial on most of the MS Office products, as well as so much more! Let me know what you think!

Friday, October 8, 2010

Life Online

Facebook, Texting, Twitter, and more....
How do you stay safe online and yet, still stay connected??
Following is a great website created by the Girl Scouts of America that is meant to help you..... The site is written in a very fun, easy to use way - yet a ton of great information!
http://lmk.girlscouts.org/Online-Safety-Topics.aspx

Friday, October 1, 2010

Texting While Driving....

The following link has an good video about a 'texting while driving' simulator teens in Houston tried. Watch it to find out the results!
http://www.khou.com/news/local/Russian-Roulette-on-the-road-Teens-take-on-texting-while-driving-simulator-103890674.html

If you still think you could do better, try the following game to see how you would do.
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2009/07/19/technology/20090719-driving-game.html

Interesting, isn't it??