Creating Their Presentations Today, we did an activity that I
would have never thought I'd do with a group of Grade 1 and 2
students: we made Presentations on GoogleDocs. Since just before
the March Break, we've been learning about feelings as part of a
Character Education/literacy activity, so I thought it would be
interesting for the students to create their own slideshows on
"feelings." The students worked in partners to find appropriate
images on Google Images, copy the links, and insert the pictures
into their slideshows. Then they wrote sentences and/or captions
about each of the feelings. The activity itself does not seem
that complicated, and it really wasn't, but it was the
"searching" part of this activity that I was hesitant about. Our
Board filters lots of Internet content, but when searching
images, it's hard to know what's going to appear. Everything may
not be appropriate. Can six- and seven-year-olds deal with this?
Will they filter accordingly? Today was the test, and my
students did an outst