Quarter 3

Updates from Room 328

We are off to a great start getting to know each other while getting creative with some cool Google Slides tools. Take a look at the awesome letters the students of room 328 made as a kick off for our Google Slides unit. They started with some new line tools and gradients. They were required to save a png file including a letter with a transparent background. Some opted to make words or names.

Learning Google Slides

Intro Slides Tools

Next up, students worked with arrange on the menu bar to organize layers or "objects" to align them, change their order, and rotate them at specific angles. They focused on grouping, patterns, and rotation to create either a flower or a snowflake. Can you find yours on the slide decks below? 

Flower Garden	Snowstorm

Stay tuned for their final projects using Google Slides tools. I am so excited for them to finish these and can't wait to share them with you. 

Data Data Everywhere

Students worked together to share ideas about a positive classroom learning environment. From their ideas shared through a Google Sheet, I manipulated the data slightly so they could make WordClouds to better understand and share their results. Of course I explained how and why I manipulated the data to make this happen. Know your source, know their purpose.

The prompts:

Their voices:

Getting Creative with File Types

Our classes are exploring another side of Google Slides as they learn about some drawing tools and different image files. To kick things off they were tasked with making a letter with the curve or polyline tool. This letter needed to be downloaded as a png file with a transparent background. The kids explored different colors, borders, and some used the gradient tool. A few kids had fun making words and first names. 

Next up, students will create a simple drawing before completing the final task of making a digital avatar of themself. Stay tuned for these gems. They will be awesome, I promise!

Then students explored grouping objects together and rotating their object to form snowflakes and flowers. Take a look at our snow storm file which included snowflakes from every class and our flower garden for friends who chose to make flowers instead. 

FLOWERGARDEN