Mrs. Reyes, a second-grade teacher at Blackland Prairie, uses Google Classroom and Google Slides every morning to help her students. She says To make good use of our morning time, we work on a math warm-up using our Google Classroom and Google Slides. Each day the...
read moreTechnology At Blackland Prairie
Blackland Prairie. Our kindergarten and first-grade students are learning how to use technology, while our third, fourth, and fifth-grade students are starting to use technology to learn. Our fourth graders started using digital journals, while our third graders...
read moreMs. Brewer’s First Grade Students Explore Google Slides
Mrs. Brewer's first grade students and Blackland Prairie worked with Mrs. Rollans and Ms. Brewer to create informational slides about themselves. The students learned so much during the lesson, including taking a picture of themselves using the webcam, inserting it...
read moreMs. Bernatis’ Explores Technology in Music
Ms. Bernatis, our music teacher at Blackland Prairie, is exploring using the new ipads Fine Arts received this year. She says I did a tech thing out of my comfort zone. Kids wrote poems, added beat and sound effects, and then recorded them using Ipads. The students...
read moreMrs. Arelis’ Kinder Kids Are Learning Google Docs!
Mrs. Arelis' kindergarten students and Mrs. Rollans at Blackland Prairie Elementary learned how to type their names in Google Docs this week. They thought that their names looked boring, so they learned how to make them "fancy" by changing the font, size, color, and...
read moreMs. Eskridge’s Third Graders Dig Into Google Sheets
Ms. Eskridge's third graders at Blackland Prairie worked with Mrs. Rollans to learn all about using Google Sheets. They created arrays using the paint bucket tool. The favorite activity was learning how to create graphs in Google Sheets. The students started...
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