JRG Computer Applications Ms. Froze

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.

Wednesday, January 25, 2012

Preparing students for their future in a rapidly changing world.

A video from ISTE, CSTA and NSF

Thursday, January 19, 2012

Student Video for a Cure for Cancer

Created by Jessi and Matt:

http://youtu.be/z8-c6-xhHp0

JRG TeamWork

Created by Ally Kolasinski in Digital Video Editing Qtr. 2

Friday, November 11, 2011

Happy Veteran's Day!

JRG thanks all veteran's today in our annual Veterans Day program!

(and the students dress up to honor them!)

Tuesday, October 4, 2011

Angry Birds and Lessons on Teaching? Really?

Angry Birds and lessons on teaching? Really? Yes!

Marc Prensky wrote a book "Don't Bother Me Mom I'm Learning" about the benefits of video games (in moderation of course) in and out of the classroom. This blog, written by Dan Meyer, doesn't so much talk about the benefits of Angry Birds in or out of a classroom, as it does the benefits of the concepts of the design of the game and how those concepts could be used when designing a lesson. Check it out!

http://blog.mrmeyer.com/?p=9797

Monday, September 26, 2011

Looking for a Tutorial??

This website has free tutorials! Yes I did say FREE! Now, I haven't gone through them all, but the ones I did go through seemed to give a pretty good introduction.

The Interenet Safety tutorial provided some helpful hints.

Check it out and let me know if you found it useful at all!

http://www.gcflearnfree.org/internet