A Start to a New Year

Good morning, this is the start of the 2011-2012 school term at "The Best Middle School in the World," Fort Middle School in Columbus, GA. There are many exciting things that we will be learning this year. For instance, those students that do not know how to type correctly will be taught that skill. Also, due to students being actively engaged with social media there will be an extensive lesson on Cyberbullying, its effects, and how to prevent it.

Each grade level will have different assignments, but overall, everyone will leave this class with the necessary skills to enter the work force, and achieve academic and personal potential.

I look forward to teaching and learning from each and every one of you! Let's start the school year out on a positive note and understand that we are all here to work together to achieve a common goal.

Enjoy your year and much success to you!

CYBER-BULLYING

In Ms. Jackson class I've learned how to make brochures. I've also learned how to make flyers. During Ms. Jackson class I've learned how to put my typing scores in excel to document the rate of my typing speed to show how I've improved my typing. Also I have learned to feel out applications to get me a job and everything in the nature of working at a bussiness.

Taniesha Tolbert's Cyberbullying Poster, the title didn't copy, but it is Sexting!

This is an example of an a business letter that we had to write to another business for them to assist us. The example is a block style business letter.

Movie Maker

My Typing Class

My name is Christopher and I am from Fort Middle School. I take a typing class and it's really fun to be in. We do many things of course typing which is important because you will need these skills one day. We do other things besides typing rarely. For instance, we do our warm ups called do nows that our teacher Ms. Jackson will usually give 10 minutes to do. When we're done with our typing lessons that's when we really do alot more things like going to CoolMath and other cool websites like that. She just went over Internet Safety. This includes, things on cyberbullying, cell phone tips, sexting, and exactly what is Internet Safety. Ms. Jackson let us watch some videos on cyberbullying, sexting, and Internet Safety. Once we watched the videos, we played games on the topic. After that, we learned how to create a brochure on cyberbullying using Microsoft Publisher, it's not really hard to do and quick to finish maybe 2 or 3 days. You just have to remember that there are two sides to the brochure. That's pretty much it, we've done so far, but I bet we will do lots more!

Here is my brochure that I created!

The 1st 9 Weeks is Over

We have been in school now an entire semester. I told my students that we have to realize that we are only in this class for an entire 9 weeks. The reason being is that we are on a A/B schedule. This means that I only see every class every other day. Since this is so, instead of being in the class for 90 days we are in here for only 45. With the 9 weeks being over now we only have 20+ days left in this class. Boy, time goes by fast when you are having fun in class.

7th grade

Some are still working on the alphabetic keyboard

Others have started working on a brochure on Internet Safety for Teens

These students take a typing test when they enter class and put the scores in Excel

6th grade

Some are still working on the alphabetic keyboard

Others are creating a Tree Map on The Key Functional Components of a Computer

8th grade

Some are still working on the alphabetic keyboard

Others are creating Double Bubble Maps on the differences between Verbal, Non-Verbal, and Written Communication

Tree Map on Work Place Expectations

Videoing each other on Verbal, Non-Verbal, and Written Communication

There are so many standards to be covered in a semester. It seems as if there is not enough time to give the students the tools they need to succeed. As long as everyone finishes the keyboard I know that they have been given the right tools to be able to type and type correctly.

These are some photos of a couple of my classes! Did I mention that I had to decorate a door.