Kindergarten Video Game

Two Alburnett seniors recently created a video game for the Kindergarten classes to use during their computer time. Click on the link to see the students demonstrating the video game to the Kindergarteners. The game is a fish counting game where the students have to count how many fish are on the screen. They are given three numbers and should click on the correct one that matches the number of fish on the screen. The students worked with Mrs. Paulsen and Mr. Kuhlers using GameMaker v8.0 from yoyogames.

http://picasaweb.google.com/kkuhlers/KindergartenGames#slideshow/5531627092723068290

Business students blogging

Every other week my students are required to read a magazine article or newspaper article with something to do with business and then summarize in a blog the student created online. This is great for cross-curricular for reading and writing, also students are reading and learning about business articles. Check out the link below to see what students are blogging about.

http://sites.google.com/site/kkuhlers/introduction-to-business

Venezuelan businessman coming to Alburnett

Skype is a powerful tool. My students will be having a guest speaker through Skype next week. He is an international or global businessman from Venezuela who works for an American company. This week my students are putting some questions together that I'll e-mail to him and next week we will agree on a day. He will skype into my classroom and have a discussion with my high school students.

Also, he will be speaking some Spanish to have some cross-curricular flavor to his appearance. My students are looking forward to this opportunity to learn more about global business & see if they can recognize some Spanish!?!

Alburnett Iowa and Oslo Norway

My Introduction to Business students have been grouped with students from Ann Michaelsen's Oslo, Norway students to work on a PowerPoint together. Each group has 4-7 students some from each country and they got to pick a topic: education, family, media influence or economy to create a Powerpoint teaching the other countries students about their country. Also, the students are creating a video of the "typical day" for their subject area. So far it has been outstanding.

Collaboration tools are up to the students; can use e-mail, office web apps, google accounts, skype, or whatever they agree on.

Virtual Team Challenge

I started this activity last week with my Accounting I and II students. This is a virtual simulation online of an oil spill in a virtual City "New City". The simulation is a national competition sponsored by Deloitte Accounting. Students are in teams of 4 with each student having a specific role in the team. They have to gather information to make informed decisions about hiring and cleaning up the oil spill to stop it from being a bigger environmental disaster than it already is. My students have created their avatars and started the tutorial this week, October 18th. We plan on doing for two weeks. Check it out by clicking on the below line.

http://virtualteamchallenge.com/home.php

Computer Building with Junior High Students

https://sites.google.com/site/computer7c/Home/computer-building-pics

Check out the above link. My seventh graders tearing computers apart and putting back together. Great hands on activity where they get to feel computer memory, touch a computer fan and take out a motherboard! Awesome-special thanks to Mr Mike Givens for helping lead and coordinate. Also thanks to Randy Morrison for providing the computers to deassemble and reassemble!