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Computers for the Real World

Welcome to the Computers for the Real World Wiki Space The seventh grade students at Horace Mann

Middle School will be editing and adding to this page throughout the semester. Feel free to check back anytime to see what we are working on. You will also find examples of student work from the previous semester here. Thanks for Visiting!

Currently the students are turning their home pages into business websites. They will "create" a business and advertise it on their own website. When finished, students will design a business card to guide customers to their business and website. Students recently finished creating Glogs on edu.glogster.com A Glog is an interactive web created poster that can be personalized, edited, shared, printed or published online. Students chose from the following topics to base their Glogs on: > > >
 * 1) Advertising their favorite book
 * 2) Describing an invention that has impacted society
 * 3) Demostrating how to find the area and circumference of a circle
 * 4) Defining the structure and function of plant parts [[image:computerworldhmms/studentvideocam.png width="185" height="274" align="right" caption="Click here to view examples of videos created by first semester students. Image courtesy of www.oakparkusd.org" link="computerworldhmms/Student Made Videos"]]<span style="color: #2c2cba; display: block; font-family: 'comic sans ms',cursive; text-align: left;">When finished, the students will be sharing their Glogs here. Keep checking!