I think we have finally made it. We had Katie come in last week and teach Audacity with the students and they all worked!!!! The kids were able to record their voices and play it back. They thought that it was pretty cool. We still had some issues with the sound but we got them all worked out by the end of the week. The children are now able to control their own volume.
So as to date, everything I need is now working. IT is currently trying to figure out a different way of saving instead of the school folder. The school folder works but it isn't secure so they would like to have a more secure system in place.
The children will start in January doing the following activities on the netbooks-
1. Spelling practice instead of on paper
2. Read stories into the computer and play it back to help with fluency
3. Math games (currently doing)
4. Typing their stories (currently doing)
5. Movie making????? The children are excited about making a movie so I will need to talk to Katie about what program we can use.
What I need now is more curriculum. What other activities can the students do? What other programs should we teach them?
IT has been amazing trying to get everything figured out for us. I now feel more confident that when we get our computers out they will work. This is a good feeling and hopefully it will stay :)
