Art Rage Portraits

As promised, I’m putting up galleries of the beautiful self-portraits 5th graders painted using ArtRage. I’ll be uploading the rest of the images over the course of this week. The first gallery, Ms. Dorman’s students, is up now.

Check it out!

Scratch Sensor Boards

My sixth grade classes continue to study programming using Scratch. Each student created a game or an application (from scratch, so to speak…), and the (mostly) finished projects are available online on the Scratch Web site.
This week the students were thrilled to get a chance to start using scratch boards in their programming projects. […]

Painting with ArtRage

Dear 5th Grade Students–
I wanted to let you know that ArtRage, the painting software we are using in class to create self-portraits is available for free download for Mac or PC: Download ArtRage.
Here’s my beautiful self portrait:
I’ll publish some of yours here next week when they are finished.
Sincerely, Ms. Hansen

Programming with Scratch

Dear 6th Grade Students,
We are deep into our computer programming unit using a new programming environment called Scratch. Scratch was developed at MIT to provide an easy and intuitive way for young people to create animations, interactive games and even basic software applications.  All of the code is in drag and drop “blocks” which fit […]

Adding Photos to Word

Dear 5th grade students,
Did you go home after class this week and show your parents what you can do with Microsoft Word? Most grown ups don’t know how to do most of the tricks with Word we learned about in class these past two weeks!
For example, the trick you used to place photos onto […]