Fifth+Grade+2011

toc =Fifth Grade Plans=

Aug 29-Sept. 2
1. Go over normal classroom procedures. 2. Discuss portfolio project with students. Share letter that will go home and needs to be returned. 3. Tell students that this year they are going to be participating in an exciting experience of creating a digital portfolio. Explain that they will be working on this project together with their peers in their own school as well as other 5th grade peers in other schools. Students will have the opportunity to collaborate and share with one another on several occasions throughout the school year. 4. Their first task is to work on their profile and they must create an avatar. Show students the Avatar Transformation Video to introduce an Avatar. 5. Pass out Login Cards and have students login. Download the Technology and ePortfolio folders to their network folder.   6. Print or have students open the “AvatarStudentResource” PDF document to complete their Avatar. Have students use the Link for [|__http://pickaface.net/__]  in the Hand-Out folder to access the avatar creator.   7. When students are finished, place their exported Avatar and their Photobooth image in their network folder.8. Students should log off and put computers back in the cart. 9. Choose a SpecTECHular Student. Award SpecTECHular student letters.