<p style="text-align: center;"><strong>Welcome to Technology!!</strong></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;">We have been so busy!!  The DeLaSalle Academy Chorale is taking a field trip to Blessed Pope John XXIII Villas on Friday, November 8.  In our Technology class we have been mastering the Page Layout and Insert Tabs in Microsoft Word.  The students used these new and emerging skills to create beautiful Thanksgiving Placemats for the Chorale to take to the residetns when they visit.  A great job was done by all students!!!</p>
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<p style="text-align: center;">This session is a very exciting one!  We are studying Computer Hardware.  At the onset of class, students are presented with a YouTube Video (NewEgg TV How to Build a Computer Part 1) that outlines the most basic computer hardware requirements (Case, Power Supply, Mother Board, CPU, Video Card, Storage,  Memory and Optical Drive), we complete a few basic worksheets covering Input and Output Devices, the difference between Hardware and Software and then cover the function for each of the required parts.  Last but not least, the classes are split up into two groups each charged with the repsonsibility of building a desktop computer.  At the very end, we connect the newly built machine to a monitor and see how we did.  The lesson is proving to be challenging and a lot of fun!</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><strong>Technology Lesson 2</strong></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;">As you can see, the students have been very busy creating facial Avatars.  The site we are using is a called PickaFace.net.  It is completely free and does not require any personal information.  During class, the students spend a little bit of time exploring the site and all of it's options and then they created themselves.  For the second part of class, each student choose the name of a classmate and created that person.  The pictures were then displayed on our SmartBoard and everyone was asked to guess who the face represented.  The students and I are having a great time with this unit.  It is teaching us to search through sites to find all of the options available, while at the same time, allowing the students to find unique and interesting characteristics about themselves and their classmates.  One caveat that we are discussing in class is that many avatar sites require users to enter personal information, this is NEVER a safe thing to do.  If the students/parents have questions about a site, please feel free to send me an email and we can look into it (<a href="mailto:jbarras@DeLaSalleFM.org">jbarras@DeLaSalleFM.org</a>).</p>
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