EMS Teen Tech Week

During the 3rd and 4th day of our workshop, we will be working on setting up your website!!

Your site should include:
Information about your site’s topic
Pictures
A survey
A document

We have a system set up here at Escobedo where you can have your own secure google account! This will give you access to:

• google docs
• google sites
• google calendar

All of these items are accessible through the http://escoweb.org site. Just click the link to EscoWeb Google and login with the account information you were given by your teacher.

**Note: We have made the decision to not allow email with these accounts. However, with google docs there is no need to email yourself documents…they are stored online!

Find out more here:

http://tinyurl.com/escogoogle

Being able to search efficiently is a student’s best chance to get their internet research done quickly! Here are the search tools you will learn about today:

1. The basics – AND, OR, -, ~, quotation marks
2. The Wonder Wheel
3. Google Squared

Leave a comment letting us know which search tool you think will help you when completing research for school projects. Explain why it will be helpful.

For more searches visit http://tinyurl.com/escogooglesearches

Thank you all for signing up for our Teen Tech Week lunchtime activities.

A list of students who will be participating will b e on the Library door Monday morning, and all students will be notified in their 1st period classes. We will see you tomorrow!

Sign ups are now closed.

Teen Tech Week is a week where we celebrate technology in all its forms. We encourage people to participate in activities that incorporate computers, MP3’s, gaming, etc.

*Teen Technology week is officially celebrated the week of March 8^th. Since it conflicts with CRT’s we have moved the activities to the week of the 15^th to avoid a lack of academic focus.

Help us celebrate Teen Tech Week by taking advantage of all the great technologies available. Let us know about your favorite technologies and/or websites.

Lunchtime Activities

The students that wish to participate will need to sign up on this Teen Tech Week blog. Space is limited to 30 students per lunch. Please keep in mind that you will need to be willing to spend the ENTIRE week in the library during lunch. You will be able to eat lunch in the library too (lunch brought from home, not school lunch). We want to be able to have more time to work on the activities. A lottery system will be used to select participants. The winners’ names will be posted on the library doors Friday, March 12^th. Thursday, March 11th will be the last day for students to sign up.

*Monday, March 16^th- Learn (Learn About Searching on Google)

*Tuesday, March 17^th- Learn (Learn How to Access Your Esco Google Account)

*Wednesday, March 18^th- Create (Create Your Own Google Webpage)

*Thursday, March 19^th- Create (Continue to Create Your Own Google Webpage)

*Friday, March 20^th- Share (Share Your Webpage) Report to room 904- Computer Lab

All assigned 6^thgrade library classes will be learning about online safety during their visits the week of Teen Technology Week. Mrs. Anzalone and Mrs. Baca will be co-teaching these lessons in the library.

The lesson that is being taught to the 6th grades is below:

How would you answer the following questions???

1. Why should kids make sure they are being safe while online?
2. How do your parents keep you safe / how do you keep yourself safe while online?
3. What are some things you know your friends do online that aren’t safe?
4. If you had to come up with a number one rule for staying safe, what would it be?

play the “myspace safety” game

http://www.komando.com/myspace

Scenarios: what would you do?

You received a friend request on your myspace from someone you have never met. They say they go to Escobedo, but you aren’t 100%. What do you do?

While you are playing games online, a pop up window tells you that you won a free ipod. All you have to do is fill out your personal information and sign up for an online service. What do you do? Why?

Your mom has set up a family myspace account for you and your brother to use together. You find out that your brother has his own myspace and hasn’t told your mom. What do you do.

Your best friend has been chatting with a boy/girl online for a few months. They both live here, so they start talking about meeting in person. Your friend asks you for advice; should he/she meet him/her. What will your advice be?

You find out that a girl/boy in one of your classes is upset with you and has posted on their website that they are going to confront you after school on your way home. You have a bad feeling that they want to fight. What do you do?