We have asked several people how they feel technology has changed over the past 20 years at our school. We found out that 20 years ago we did not have what we have today. Some people on the staff had the Vic 20!  The Vic 20 was Dexter Willson's and Andy Mosedale's first computers!  Mrs. Bushey teaches us how to type with the program Type to Learn 4. She helps us use the program Word. Ms. Persson said she will use technology in concerts with the microphone. She uses the Sibelius program in her lessons to help teach students how to write their own music! Mr. Douglas uses the computer in class to help us look up information.  Google is a favorite search engine for him.  He helps our teachers to get technology up and running!

 

 

                                        

Mr. Dexter Willson                             Dexter is being interviewed

and his Vic 20!                                    by E. and A

 

 

                                                                               

    Andy M. is showing us                                                Andy Mosedale is 

how to write a program                                                  being interviewed by

for the Vic 20!                                                                    H. and J.

 

 

                                                       

   Ms. Persson is being interviewed                                 Mr. Douglas is being

 by J. and N.                                                                       interviewed  by         

                                                                                            C. and I.                                                                                                                       

 

 

 

 

Mrs. Bushey is being

interviewed by S. and R.

H. is making

sure the microphone is working!

 

 

 

The technology we use to write with has changed.  Way before computers were here, our teachers used typewriters!  Some of them had electric typewriters!

 

This manual typewriter was one of Mrs. Boardman's first keyboards!   She's our Art teacher!

We have gone from one of the earliest keyboards, to the age of computers!

 

 

                              

 

 

 

 

 

Our writing tools have gone from dusty, messy, hard to erase and keep clean chalkboards to bright and dust-free Smart Boards! From pencils, colored pencils, crayons, paints, markers, Vis-a-Vis markers, whiteboard markers, keyboards, laptops to Smart Boards with special markers, writing instruments at the Barnet School have gotten cleaner, quicker, and easier to write with!

 

D. is writing on the first tool used at our school. She is writing on a chalkboard with white chalk but she could use colored  chalk.

 

 

In the picture below, N. and A.  are holding writing utensils that  have improved over the years!!!! 

 

 

Our teachers first computers at school were Apples ( the brand name of them, not the fruit!)  

 

The computers had  keyboards to write/type with!

 

 

L. has taken writing to the next level on a white board!  The whiteboard uses Dry Erase markers and you can erase  with a special eraser, rags or even a Kleenex!

 

 

 

 

The last piece of our writing technology timeline ends with a Smart Board!  You need  computer, a projector, and special markers.  The Smart  Board has its own special eraser!

 

 

Writing mediums through the years at Barnet School!  Third Graders started with little word processors called AlphaSmarts! Then we progressed to computers, laptops, and then Netbooks!  Technology pieces went  from being somewhat big to little pieces that do the same things.  You can use the Internet with Laptops and Netbooks but the AlphaSmarts were only used for keyboarding and writing stories.  The AlphaSmarts had to a have a laser cord to send informartion from them to the computer to be printer off!

 

  

 

S. is on the maroon AlphaSmart!  He is praticing keyboarding!  S. is on our next style of laptops practicing her keyboarding and R. is practicing her keyboarding on a Netbook ( our latest style of laptops)!  We hope that you can notice the size difference with each of these writing tools of technology!

 

 

 

For our next technological piece, we start with an overhead as a means to show something to the whole class or a larger group of students!  One way to teach was (and still is) using the overhead projector to show something to the whole class! The machine uses a special piece of acetate and Vis-a-Vis markers.  Kleenexes work well as erasers!  Our teachers can even copy something onto the acetate from a copier and place in on the overhead, too!

 

G. is helping us to  finish a Sudoka

puzzle!

 

 

And yet another way to show large groups of students is using the computers with an overhead projector! Our teachers use this way to show us lots of ways to make complete and detailed sentences, write stories, show us maps and also games!  You need an overhead projector connected to a computer!   Our teachers like to use the Microsoft Word program and go on the Internet to find us videos, games, and informational sites!  We can even watch movies with the Smart Board!

 

 

G. is showing everybody  the 

daily agenda!  

 

More white boards (less DUST!) to ---->

 

 

Smartboards!

 

From the chalkboard, came the computers and keyboards.  We type with keyboards and our information gets onto a computer screen.  Then, we can print a copy of it from a printer!

 

                                

      Keyboard                                           E. typing a story                                     E. has a printed copy of her

                                                                                                                                                  story!  

 

 

We can even print a picture with our computers and printers! 

Step 1-Turn on the camera, get the picture you want in the screen area  and press the big button  to take a picture. Step 2-Turn on the computer. Step 3-There are two different ways to do this next step. One way is to take out the camera's memory card from the bottom of the camera and put  it into the card slot on the computer. The other way, you can take the camera cord and plug it into camera from one end and the other end you plug it into the computer. Step 4-When the computer recognizes the camera, click on CAMERA and then click on the picture you want to print. Step 5- Click PRINT and the picture will come out of the printer.

 

Camera Ready to print!

 

 

                  

Image on Screen!                                                    Image on paper                     Image on Smart Board

 

 

 

 To watch a movie, we used to just be able to see it on the television.  Then, we were able to see a movie by using a DVD, or right over the Internet, on a laptop.  Now, a large group of us can watch it on the Smart Board! All we need is popcorn!

 

                                    

 

 

Our  journey through technology was displayed at our yearly Education Fair, Wednesday, May 5, 2010, as 'works in progress'!

 

                                                        

 

The Vic 20 basic programming is being played with at our Education Fair.  One of our technology unit's presentations is being played through the PhotoStory program on the laptop to the left.  Our other technology unit presentation is being played on the laptop to the right through the WIKI program.

 

                                                  SEE HOW FAR WE'VE COME! 

 

 

The Third and Fourth Graders, along with the help from their teacher, Mrs. Nancy Bailey and all the other teachers and staff listed in the above interviews, hope that you have enjoyed seeing how the typewriter changed to a computer, how writing with chalk changed to writing with a Smart Board, how the AlphaSmart laptops changed to the Netbooks, how the overhead projector changed to the Smart Board, and how watching a movie on the television changed to watching it on the Smart Board!  All technology ends with the Smart Board.  

 

Happy 20th Birthday, Barnet School!               4/29/2010