Virtual Technology Teacher™ subscription includes access to over 40 virtual video lessons that are downloadable by password to any computer, for use in a lab, mobile lab, or at a single computer.
An introductory lesson is included that will walk your teachers through lesson management.
You will also have access to a constantly updated list of our favorite technology websites, as well as multiple staff development videos that can be utilized for staff meetings.
The topics have been grouped into a Course of Study for grades K-6 based on National Educational Technology Standards for Students (NETS*S), developed by the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) NETS project. These have been adopted by most states in one form or another. California has currently adopted CTAP standards; however CTAP accepts NETS for students.
To use this curriculum in whole-class instructions, you need a computer lab, a projector, and Microsoft Office or Open Office. Some schools also utilize these videos on single computers, allowing the students to work through the skills at their own pace rather than in a lab setting. Many hardcopy curricula and non-video curricula out there require multiple purchases. I have geared the entire curriculum around software that comes with the computer, as well as Microsoft Office. You will also see a few lessons utilizing Open Source software, which is free software that has been developed by groups of people looking to put free software on the Internet for everyone to use. If your district cannot afford Microsoft Office, you can download OpenOffice and follow along with 95% of the videos. I have included a video with instructions on accessing and downloading open source software.
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Please click on your grade level to jump to that section. Mac lessons are labeled MAC, Windows lessons are labeled WIN, Windows lessons using free (open source) Open Office are labeled OO, and lessons done on the Internet that can be done on any platform are labeled ALL. The Web 2.0 lessons include Poster making in Glogster, online brainstorming collaboration, audacity podcasting with drop.io, and wikispaces.
Please note, all videos can be used by any grade level, depending on your students' ability level. The videos are numbered in order, but are listed below by grade level for an elementary school following the Course of Study, with certain lessons being taught in certain grades. Feel free to use them in any order, to challenge your GATE students or remediate students who need earlier lessons.
MAC Lesson 1Computer Vocabulary 30:08
Parts of the computer, monitor, mouse, screen, cursor, keyboard, left click, etc.
mouse and window skills - moving windows, resizing, minimizing, click and drag
WIN Lesson 1Computer Vocabulary 22:59
Parts of the computer, monitor, mouse, screen, cursor, keyboard, scroll wheel, etc.
mouse and window skills - moving windows, resizing, minimizing, click and drag
MAC Lesson 2Drawing 28:05
Microsoft Word, Drawing toolbar, autoshapes, changing shape size, adding objects from formatting palette, rotating shapes, adding text, coloring shapes, Wordart
WIN/OO Lesson 2Drawing 27:24
Microsoft Word, Drawing toolbar, icons, Open Office, shift, autoshapes, changing shape size, rotating shapes, adding text, coloring shapes, Wordart
MAC Lesson 3 Word Processing I 33:26
Space, shift, period, comma, tab, enter, spell check, highlighting, fonts, sizes, colors, (setting timers to allow students to explore)
WIN/OO Lesson 3Word Processing I 32:26
Space, shift, period, comma, tab, enter, spell check, highlighting, fonts, sizes, colors, (setting timers to allow students to explore)
ALL Lesson 4 Internet 37:28
Starfall for early reading skills, .com vs. .gov, bookmarks, Math (add, subtract, multi, divide) website
MAC Lesson 5Word Processing II 28:54
Starting a paper - alignment (right, center, left), saving, naming conventions, finding something that is saved, right-click or control-click spell checks, printing
WIN/OO Lesson 5Word Processing II 22:23
Starting a paper - alignment (right, center, left), saving, naming conventions, formatting and standard toolbars, printing, undo
Lesson 6Math Websites 27:56
Timed add/sub/mult/divide, blackline masters, virtual math manipulatives site - money, time, patterns, geo boards, etc.
MAC Lesson 7Word Processing III (Drawing) 29:19
Drawing toolbar, drawing a house, resizing shapes, arranging and layering shapes, coloring shapes, grouping, Wordart, arrows
WIN/OO Lesson 7Word Processing III (Drawing) 34:10 Drawing toolbar, drawing a house, resizing shapes, arranging and layering shapes, coloring shapes, grouping, Wordart, arrows
MAC Lesson 8 Presentations I 28:30
Layout, background/design, clipart, online clipart, resizing pictures, saving
WIN/OOLesson 8 Presentations I 34:58
Using both PowerPoint and Open Office Impress, Layout, background/design, clipart, online photos, resizing pictures, savin, citation
MAC Lesson 9 Spreadsheets and Graphs 32:03
Data gathering, entering data on a spreadsheet, chart wizard, types of charts/graphs, axis labeling, category alignment, resizing, print preview, changing chart colors
WIN/OO Lesson 9 Spreadsheets and Graphs 18:42
Using Excel and Open Office Calc Entering data on a spreadsheet, chart wizard, types of charts/graphs, axis labeling, category alignment, resizing, print preview, changing chart colors, data labels, chart colors
ALL Lesson 10 Keyboarding 35:22
Keyboarding - Internet, safe google filters, touch typing websites, typing games, lessons, and tests.
MAC Lesson 13Presentations II 33:43
Charlotte's Web Powerpoint, adding slides, layout, design, importing clipart, importing pics from web, saving, pics4learning.com
custom animation - sounds, effects, entrance, emphasis, exit
WIN Lesson 13 Presentations II 27:41
Charlotte's Web Powerpoint, adding slides, layout, design, importing clipart, importing pics from web, saving, pics4learning.com
custom animation - sounds, effects, entrance, emphasis, exit
OO Lesson 13 Presentations II 35:01
Impress, Finding Online Templates, setting Google safesearch preferences, Charlotte's Web Powerpoint, adding slides, layout, design, importing clipart, importing pics from web, saving, pics4learning.com
custom animation - sounds, effects, entrance, emphasis, exit
ALL Lesson 14 Google Earth 34:35
Layers, zoom, tilt address search
great pyramids - panaramio, discovery videos, google book search
mesa verde anastasi indians
google sky, eiffel tower, place marks
ALL Lesson 15Word Processing V 25:43
Vocabulary Table in Word - columns, tables, alignment, modifying inserted pictures,
going online for pics (pics4learning, united streaming, clipart)
setting google preferences and filters for image searching, define function, thesaurus.com, importing pics, layering pics, united streaming, formatting pictures
ALL Lesson 16Freemind Brainstorming Software 21:28
Freemind - Brainstorming with OpenSource Software (make sure your techs have downloaded the Freemind software)
Charlotte's Web Book Report brainstorm
icons - order, graphical links, multi-paragraph essays
ALL Lesson 17Internet Safety 45:49
McGruff the Crime Dog Internet Safety and PBS kids internet license
0-13:55 Mcgruff games "shrink the cyberbully", "Internet Safety Quiz"
13:55-43:00 PBS kids - can be done without a lab, just a projector as a class discussion. Kids visit 10 stations and learn about downloading, cookies, safety, passwords, privacy policies, borrowing, bullying, meeting people, etc.
ALL Lesson 18Safe Google Searching 19:58
Setting preferences, opening in a new page, more words, and using quotes
image searching, intro to moving to word, see full-size image, .com vs .org, etc.
MAC Lesson 19Citations I 47:57
Citation of picture and sentences from the Internet by webpage URL for California Missions, why to use large pictures,
Dragging website name into word, copy and paste 3 ways
Discussion on Internet Plagiarism
After 37:34 goes into advanced discussion on full bibiliography citation using sourceaid.com, citationmachine.net, or noodlebib express.
WIN Lesson 19Citations I 44:27
Citation of picture and sentences from the Internet by webpage URL for California Missions, why to use large pictures, dragging website name into word, copy and paste. Discussion on Internet Plagiarism, Google Notebook for tracking resources, Zotero.com, Bibme.com, citationmachine.net for building citations.
MAC Lesson 20 Word Processing VI (Templates) 24:09
Google images, further citation work, insert textbox for image parameters
ALL Lesson 20Wikispaces 31:00
This should be watched first by the teacher so they can set up the class wiki and create usernames to give to the students. Then watch together when students have usernames. Establish class account and usernames, give students pages, insert pictures, insert maps, insert widgets, create discussions, view history of page changes.
ALL Lesson 21Advanced Google Search 24:47
Advanced operators, quote searching, definition searching, asterisk, tilde, calculator, conversions. Advanced Search parameters, filetype searching for jeopardy powerpoint templates, advanced image search, similar site searches, Google Scholar and Book searches
MAC Lesson 22iPhoto 24:09 Taking images from Google to the desktop, importing to iPhoto, cropping, rotating, red eye, effects, black and white, sepia, sharpness, straighten, exposure, slide show.
WIN Lesson 22 Picasa and Geotagging 19:55 Picasa 3, how to download program, import pictures, edit, add text, arrange, slide show, effects, geotagging in Google Earth MAC Lesson 23Presentations III 44:24
Advanced animation effects, timing, hyperlinks, buttons, voice recording WIN Lesson 23Presentations III 26:58
Adding movies to Powerpoint. Downloading movies from Internet with right-click "save link as." Importing and resizing/rescaling pictures, hyperlinks, actions buttons, transitions, how to save with a movie file
MAC Lesson 24Word Processing VII 31:46
Margins, print preview, section breaks, columns, header/footer, inserting tables, creating score sheet
WIN Lesson 24Word Processing VII 31:32
Margins, print preview, section breaks, columns, header/footer, inserting excel table, inserting tables, creating score sheet, drag to fill in excel, formatting text box
MAC Lesson 25 Garage Band 58:40
Adding pics from iphoto into a podcast
Great wall info from enchanted learning
Need to get great wall material from United Streaming, smithsonian, or teachertube 1st part is going and getting pics and putting into albums in iphoto. - Preparation work - getting photos from google
WIN Lesson 25Photostory 3 33:28 Storyboarding. Please have pictures on all machines or on class wiki.
Use PowerPoint to make a storyboard. Discovery or pics4learning to get pictures if needed. Edit order and edit photos. Add text to pics, narrarate pictures with a microphone, add motion and crop. Create music from library and save as a movie
MAC Lesson 26 iMovie 44:43 Should have downloaded the movie already, if not the first 8:30 of this video goes over downloading from United Streaming or teachertube. Movie editing, adding transitions, extracting audio, effects, credits, music
WIN Lesson 26 MovieMaker 33:36Downloading movie from wikispaces, finding and downloading royalty free music, importing video, editing music, timeline view, effects, transitions, adding words to video, saving the project, www.archive.org MAC Lesson 27Presentations IV 31:04
Inserting video and recording sounds into Powerpoint. Need to have videos from 26 available or get new ones before you start.
WIN Lesson 27 Presentations IV 21:57
Inserting video and recording sounds into Powerpoint. Will get video from VTT wiki. Recording voice, advanced transitions and effects.
ALL Lesson 28 Citations II 25:25
Citation machine, easybib, wikipedia citations
Brainstorming Collaboration 30:32
Freemind (as in 4th grade, open source), bubbl.us (free online web brainstorming collaboration) narrative story and saving brainstorms, mywebspiration, twiddla.com (share a virtual whiteboard and chat)
Wikispaces 31:00
This should be watched first by the teacher so they can set up the class wiki and create usernames to give to the students. Then watch together when students have usernames. Establish class account and usernames, give students pages, insert pictures, insert maps, insert widgets, create discussions, view history of page changes.
Glogster 37:07
Creating educational accounts for online poster making. Can import video, photos, and utilize a webcam. Private network for your classroom with no email needed
Audacity and Drop.io 44:42
A free audio editing program for creating podcasts, and a free online storage space to keep your podcasts. Also, Drop.io allows you to phone in your podcasts to import into audacity
Google Forms and Docs - Creating a Google Account, word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, forms, collaboration, adding widgets to spreadsheets including maps
