For our final end of the year project, my students in the 7th Grade class were supposed to submit a report written and formatted in Microsoft Word, accompanied by Excel data, a PowerPoint presentation, and  a poster made by using PaintShop Pro X4 version.  One of my students not only turned in his work early, he also did such an amazing job I just couldn't help but feature the work here.  Here are some of the images from his project.  All work by Tyson Tolson

Titanic Desk by Tyson Tolson using PaintShop Pro X4 .  All items on desk are separate images of real items from the Titanic.

One off my students just popped out a great piece of art using the basic Microsoft Paint program.

Art by Jaclynn

My students really like using the site Pixie Editor.  They go on that site and create all sorts of tiny icons.  Here is a picture of a spider that two of my 2nd grade students made using that website.

Picture by Addison Haney, 2nd Grade

Benjamin Hopkins,2nd grade - Lightning Ninja

My students are really enjoying working with Paintshop Pro.  Here is another picture one of my students did this week.

Chuck Norris kicking the Titanic buy Tyson Tolson

Today, the 4th grade class learned how to make layered images.  They were tasked to place one image on top of the other and then erase part of the image on the top so that the bottom layer would be the background. Most of the students used a planet or outer space as their background.  I think they did a great job !!!

Check them out!!!

Robo- Beast from Saturn by Raegan Rhodus

Ants Rule by Noah Simmons

Yoda with background added by Colter Riddlebarger

Titanic Burning  by Ben Davidson

I am always amazed at how quickly students learn computer programs.  This year, we have been using and experimenting with PaintShop Pro X4.  One of my students combined several images that she found on the Internet and created a beautiful picture.  This image consists of three separate pictures which are merged using layers.

7th Grade Annly Perez

I had a First Grade student that wanted to type her spelling words into the Comic Life program this morning.  She was rather adamant about finishing her work, so I decided to showcase it.  This is not a super easy program for a 1st Grade student to use, but she kept at it!  Great Job, Tehya!

This year, I bought a great piece of software called Comic Life and my students love it.  They use it even when they don't have to!  We have figured out all sorts of ways to use it and it was a very cheap piece of software.

 Here is another example of a students work from our vault of great student pieces!  The students were tasked to write out their spelling words using Comic Life.

Comic Life Art by Brooke Childers

We had a blast last week in 6th Grade Computer class.  We had a good 2 hour session with one of the best classes in the Universe.  Here is the way to really dismiss a class!

The incredible lyrics: "Ellis is so awesome... awesome... awesome....."

Today, my 4th Grade Computer Class used a program called Comic Life to type in their words.  I think they did a great job, and they seemed to enjoy making all of these different versions of their weekly spelling words using this software.

Words in Comic Life by Aaron Woodcock

It took three whole days, but we repainted the computer lab.  I had my wife and Dr. Davidson's dad, Bill Davidson, helping with this project and they were an enormous help!  We got all of the walls painted and Mr. Davidson even fixed all of the heat registers that were damaged.

One of the things that I was so happy to have fixed, was getting the piles of wires off of the floor and attached to the back of the computer tables.  It was nearly impossible to clean around all of them while they were laying all over the floor.  It took the better part of four hours to get them off of the floor, but it was well worth it!

Once again, thanks so much to Mr. Davidson, and my wife, Karen, for all of their help!

No cords on the floors!

New carpet and curtains!

The heat registers are painted and fixed!

Here is the new Logo for the Technology Department!  Pretty Cool!  

Since the 3rd nine week segment of the school year has started, we have been exploring all of the different ways that you can use Microsoft Excel.  We have listed and organized data, created lists with comment boxes that pop up, learned how to label maps and now, we are creating time lines.  Below is a timeline from one of my 10th grade students.

Timeline by Torrin Nelson, 10th Grade (Click on for larger picture)

I had a second grade student make this awesome piece of computer art in my class today.  He got finished practicing his spelling list and he decided to make a piece of art using the paint program from Microsoft Windows 11.  It kind of reminds me of artwork by Mondrian!

Art by Roman Carpenter 2nd Grade