St. Michael's Virtual Technology Lab

About the Site:

  • This is your window into Technology at St. Mike’s. Most of Ms. H’s class projects start here, so pick a grade and check out what we’re doing. There are also resources for teachers and students to use at home, so use the RSS features below to stay informed!


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Spanish Artist Project

January 30th, 2009 by bholland

Use these sites to find information about your artist.

  1. Answers.com
  2. PBS American Masters
  3. Museo del Prado

Posted in 7th Grade |

Dunn Foundation Workshop Links

January 13th, 2009 by bholland

If you are reading this, then you are in the right place. Here are the links to the sites that you may want to explore. They are already logged in with either my account or a fictitious student account. Please follow the Stickies on each machine to know what can be accessed.

Posted in Lab News |

3rd Grade Scavenger Hunt Facts

January 12th, 2009 by bholland

When you’re ready to start finding facts, click here. Remember,  you want to write down something that is important about each place.

Posted in 3rd Grade |

6th Grade Typing Tutor

January 8th, 2009 by bholland

IF you have finished Lesson 5, then here’s what you need to do.

  1. Open Pages
  2. Choose Blank
  3. File Save>As your Name-PumaQuestions (ex: Susie-PumaQuestions) to your Documents folder
  4. This is your chance to ask Mr. Read (Tory’s Dad) and Mr. Kirby (the crazy guy who has to go up to the front of the boat in all conditions) questions about the Volvo Ocean Race. Type anything you may want to know about. Remember, they are in Singapore right now and  heading to China soon. From there, they will cross the Pacific, come around Cape Horn, and go up to Brazil. There will be a video interview at the end of this month.
  5. When you are done, drag your file into the 6B or 6H folder

Posted in 6th Grade |

8th Grade Media Resources

January 7th, 2009 by bholland

Here are places to look for things:

  • Ask.com Images
  • Panoramio – images from the world
  • Use GoogleEarth
  • UnitedStreaming – video search (user = stmichaels and pass = smcds)
  • Flickr – photo sharing site (if you find images that you want to use, we will ask for permission)
  • Jamendo – useable music
  • CCMixter – community music site
  • National Geographic World Music – you may not be able to download from here, but it will give you a sense of what the music sounds like
  • GoogleMaps – click on Satellite, and then under More, check photos

Posted in 8th Grade |

5th Grade Adaptive Technologies Project

January 5th, 2009 by bholland

Imagine if you suddenly lost part of your world. You couldn’t hear, or see, or maybe move. What would you do? How could technology help?

You are going to have to find or create a product, and then market it through a brochure.

To get started, let’s do some research into what already exists. Here are a few sites to help you out.

Setting Up Your Project

To get started, we’re going to take some notes in a Keynote file. 

  1. Open Keynote
  2. File>Save As> Name-ATnotes (ex: Dave-ATnotes)
  3. Your Title Slide should be Adaptive Technology Notes as the title and the name of your product as the subtitle
  4. See if you can create 4 more slides:
    • The FIRST slide should be the name of the product and the web address (just copy & paste it)
    • The SECOND SLIDE tells what the product does
    • The THIRD SLIDE tells who the product helps
    • The FOURTH SLIDE tells why a person would use it

Posted in 5th Grade |