2nd Grade
Why should we have a computer in each classroom?
Desktop, Monitor, Printer, Mouse, Keyboard: This day and time, computers are used for almost everything. They are especially useful tools in the classroom. Students can play educational games and do research, and teachers can show educational videos, documents can be created and printed, and teachers and students can use the internet. All of the second grade teachers have come to the conclusion that each classroom should have at least one computer in it with necessary accessories. We have researched and found a package on
Internet Source:
Microsoft Office: Microsoft Office is also a very useful tool for teachers. The second grade teachers would like to request that each computer include Microsoft Word, Microsoft PowerPoint, and Microsoft Excel. The 2010 version would be enough for our teachers to create spreadsheets that would be useful making rolls or seating charts, regular word documents such as notes home to parents or weekly newsletter, and power points which are great ways to present a lesson to students. A package including all three programs can be found at
Speakers:
Headphones:
Data Projector: Projectors would make teaching easier on teachers, and learning more interesting for students. Teachers can display documents, spreadsheets, videos, pictures, and power points on the data projectors. It would make text large enough for every student in the classroom to see, and let’s face it, students will enjoy looking at a huge computer screen with videos, pictures, and sounds much better than words in a textbook. These are also great alternatives to having a television in the classroom.
Digital Camera:
$1087.93 x 7 second grade classrooms = $7615.51 TOTAL
Through hard work, patience, and fund raising, I believe the second grade teachers and students can pull together to raise the money to purchase one computer and accessories for each classroom.
Digital cameras can be used in classrooms in many ways. Teachers can take pictures of special activities that students take part in and post them to a blog such as The second grade teachers have come up with the idea to allow students to take turns on the computer one at a time for about 20 minutes each. During this time students can play educational games and exercise math, reading, spelling, and science skills. In order to do this without disturbing the rest of the students, we would need one set of headphones per computer. Students can put the headphones on while it is their turn to be on the computer and engage in learning activities. External speakers would be great for times when teachers would like to show an educational video, for example, from TeacherTube. Internal speakers may not be loud enough for students sitting in the back to hear. It would be more beneficial for the students if we had two external speakers per computer. External speakers can be found at Best Buy stores or Internet access is crucial for our teachers. Each computer should have Mozilla Firefox as an internet source. Why? In my opinion, it is the safest and healthiest choice for computers. It is a free and open source web browser and is the second most widely used browser. It includes tabbed browsing, spell checking, incremental find, live bookmarking, download manager, private browsing, and a search system that uses Google service. There is a FREE download at www.bestbuy.com that includes an HP desktop, monitor, wireless printer, mouse, and keyboard for $459.97. These computers have a 4GB memory, Intel Pentium processor, and a widescreen, slim monitor. www.mozilla.com.www.journeyed.com for $99.00.www.bestbuy.com for $19.99 each. www.schooloutfitters.com has wireless USB headphones for $38.99.www.tigerdirect.com has an Optoma ES522 Multimedia DLP Projector that is digital-based and produces a great picture. These projectors are $349.99 each.www.blogger.com, so parents can actually see what their kids are doing in class and how they are learning. It would also be beneficial if the cameras could record videos too so videos can be uploaded to the blog. Another way teachers can use the cameras is to take pictures of students and different activities and have students help put together a classroom scrapbook for art time or free time. The pictures can be used to decorate the classroom too. A camera that fits all of these descriptions can be found at Best Buy stores or www.bestbuy.com. They have a Nikon Coolpix L24, 14.0 Mega pixel digital camera for $119.99.
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