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Focus Skills:

Files and folders -
Organizing
Naming

Using GPS -
Longitude & Latitude notation
Mapping to FMS map
Locating from coordinates

Digital imaging -
Scanning
Digital & video cameras
Video editing in iMovie
Image formats and manipulation

Online Discussions -
Wiki, blogging
How to post & comment correctly
Threaded discussions  - online collaboration

Because we are a laptop school, technology is fully integrated into all Literacy units. Technology skills are often developed through "reading actitivies" (reading & following directions). Students will be required to use correct file and folder naming and organization procedures throughout the year; this will be the first instructional unit (one repeated in every class!). Students are expected to backup essential classwork files to the FMS server.

NoteShare, an MLTI application, will be used extensively in Literacy as both an interactive "text" for several units and a "interactive discussion board" to support collaborative projects.

All students will be required to complete at least the following technology activities in Literacy this year:

• film and edit a documentary or dramatic segment;
• create a podcast in GarageBand;
• scan into the laptop, manipulate the scanned image (reformat, resizie, crop, filter, animate);
• take, download and manipultate still photographs;
• create an iMovie and a slideshow presentation (Keynote or Powerpoint);
• upload to a Wiki, edit and format online text;
• participate in a focused online discussion using NoteShare;
• use Advanced keyword searching (Google or other engine);
• submit written work to NoteShare, revise based upon teacher and peer editing;
• create a poster in Pages;
• use Garmen GPS to pinpoint a location, map this to GoogleEarth (or other application);
• keyboard (Word, Pages, or AW);
• create a Harvard outline;
• use online interactive tools to create an essay outline, a rubric, and a bibliography;
• create a graphical web;
• annotate a full-page image using Word tools;
• connect the laptop to an LCD projector;
• use a key drive for file sharing.