Mr. Rennie's Class

  This week in the lab many students were able to finish their slideshows. They are all to be done by Tuesday. The cool thing about this is that is that they will be able to invite their classmates to share their document. This means that each of them will be able to view their peer's slideshow, all of them while sitting at their own desktop. Having this skill and capability also means that starting next week we will not only be able to share, even edit each others work but more importantly, they have an alternative way to present and demonstrate their learning. The students will publish some excellent poems about themselves called "I am From". These will be published on Google Docs so you will be able to read them at home either through your child's account or your own if they share it with you. I am really pleased with how it is going and the kids are generally excited to get into the lab, to work not play.

  The children today are so technologicall aware that they are easily able to access these new ways of working and to quickly master them. I've been taught by Kennedy and Sydney how to  transfer images in a faster more effective way.  This was then passed on to the others so they could all put it into practice. I have been wanting to tackle these types of things for years and am so glad I'm finally doing it. Our school district has announced that in the new year all SD 72 users will have access to wireless capabilities when on site. So staff and students with lap-tops and PED's will be able to use them at school by logging in with a personal user name and password. The future is here,

  A quick thank you to the Kretzschmars for allowing us to use their loo and property for our lunch on Wednesday. Also thanks to Teresa Kretzschmar, Teresa Boyd, and Amanda Cromer for helping us with supervision while we were away from school. I'd lastly like to thank Leah Kay for her excellent work and for really getting involved with the class in her introductory week. She did very well teaching four lessons in total and the student responded well to her while she taught. Way to go students you were great and deserve an extra day off this weekend so you can all take Monday off. Have a nice long weekend.