Technology News

This year, we continue our focus on providing the students and teachers of Christ the King Catholic School with technology tools for success. This summer we added Promethean Activboards to both Reading Classrooms, two new servers for added network capability, and painting and animation software for student creativity. Students and Parents are encouraged to use the CCCOE portal ED1Stop as the "one stop" for research and media tools for school assignments and projects and tutorials for almost any application can be found at Atomic Learning.

Kindergarteners are able to use their new username and passwords to login and are working on alphabet paint projects that work on mouse skills as well as letter recognition.

Grades 1-3 are working on building word processing skill and have completed several word processing and paint projects that integrate tech skill with sentence basics and paragraph structure. Grade 2 has completed a series of science slides explaining the life cycle of a plant. See their work on the Student Work page.

Grades 4 and 5 are both coming in at regular times for keyboarding practice in addition to two days a week for integrated technology lessons. Grade 4 created brochures of their favorite places in California and are now researching the first Thanksgiving.
Grade 5 students created autobiographial collages in Comic Life as well as beautiful reporst on the work of Claude Monet.

Grades 6-8 are currently using the computer lab for online researching, writing, and work with digital media. Sixth graders designed templates for lab reports and created charts to report data on the growth of seeds. The seventh grade students have been using iPhoto to edit photos from Caritas and will be creating a special iMovie presentation. All students are feeling pretty comfortable using both Mac OSX and Windows XP as we continue to run a dual platform school.

You can still view some student work on the Student Work page.

Mrs. Anna Massi