Technology Lesson

For my technology lesson, I decided to have students learn to add clipart to their writing. Because students are writing about themselves and trying to become "published" authors, I thought that adding pictures to their writing would really enhance the lesson. So the entire lesson actually took two days. The first day I taught the students how to open a word document and type their name and a few sentences about themselves. Then I taught them how to save the file. The next day we went back to the computer lab and I taught them how to insert clipart to enhance their writing and then we learned how to print their writing. Since my students are first graders, they have had almost no experience using Word. They did pretty well with it however. Students loved adding pictures to their writing and they loved printing their writing. Some of them wanted me to take pictures of them holding their paper because they were so excited. Students talked about how they felt like realy authors. It was obvious that the teacher doesn't incorporate student involvement with technology into her lessons very well. It was a lot of fun!