Today the students located and opened the document they saved in their personal folder last week, made more changes, and practiced saving those changes. Below is an example of one student's work:
This week we will continue our discussion of the File System, and practice opening up a file saved in their folder, making changes to it, and then using "save" and "save as." Each student will have a picture of a snowflake from Pixie saved in a file in their folder, and they will create text blocks to add descriptive adjectives and verbs around the snowflake, and experiment with various ways to change the appearance of the text such as font type, size, color, and selecting bold, italics, underline and other options before they save their work.
This week the students are learning about the computer file system. We will start the class off by discussing how they save their work papers. Then we will talk about how computers store information using storage devices such as a hard drive. We will discuss the importance of organizing things and how confusing it would be if they just threw all their papers into the bottom of a backpack. The same thing is true for the computer. You need to store the files in an organized way to make it easy to find it again. We will use a small “paper filing cabinet" and explain that the computer uses a similar system. This visual aid has folders for each grade and then inside the second grade folder there is a folder for each student. We will discuss how computers folders are set up the same way. We will also discuss when to use “save” and “save as” as well as the importance of saving things in their “personal folders” instead of on the computer they are using, and how the Network Server works in our school.
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