Marco Polo..

We're getting official now! Not only is Google coming to get to know us, but we're getting POLO SHIRTS. They're a beautiful Clipper blue, with white accent.
Enjoy(:

-Cooper Horning

Google's Coming to Town!!!

This is the official turning point for the Creek Squad, Google has notified us that they're interested in coming to Iowa and filming us in action. They're interested in all of the support from parents, peers, and the district. Google has told us that they're interested in filming us and using us as models for other schools.
This is a HUGE achievement, we're all super excited.

-Cooper Horning

Check out this article about Google coming to Clear Creek by Patrick Hogan!
Read it!

Future Creek Squad

We had a meeting today, we talked about finishing up our application for next year's Creek Squad members, our sixth and seventh graders. We planned out questions and other details for the form and sent it out via Google Docs. We will hopefully be posting a sign-up sheet for them so we can contact them with further information.  We're hopefully going to get lots of tech-savvy kids to sign up.

-Trevor Toy

Test Tweet Post

Creek Squad just connected with the Twitter!

Twitter

The Creek Squad got started with Twitter when our Grant Wood consultant, Stacy Behmer, brought up the idea of a Creek Squad Twitter account. On one of our work days we went through the process of creating an account. We then went and started choosing followers as a group. Afterwards we decided that we would choose “tweeters” every week who would tweet for the Creek Squad account.


Miles Lucas

Mimio Interactive Smart Board

On the week of  January 10th, 2011, three members of the Creek Squad were chosen to participate in a private class to learn about Interactive Boards. David Herzog took time out of his day to teach myself (Lauren Judge), Rachel Beckler, and Bailey Mooney, along with our Director of Technology, Joe Francis.

In the class, we learned how to correctly calibrate the board and pen. We also learned how to set different commands to the different buttons on the pen.There was an A button and a B button. You could set either to be the right clicker, and the other to be one of a number of different options.

Until you are very comfortable with the pen you use for the board, your handwriting on the notebook is sort of messy and hard to read. No problem :) There is a tool called Ink Recognition. You can select your hand written text, and use the Ink Recognition tool and it will turn it into a font! You can then choose the size, font, color, etc all right from the board instead of going back to your computer and typing it on a key board.

You can also pull a keyboard up directly on the interactive board. Then you just type with the stylus. You can Google search, type in URLs (site addresses), and anything else you could do with a keyboard.

We learned a lot more, and I was very interested in this subject. I have so far used Smart Board and Mimio brands. Each is very interesting and fun to use :)

I would love to learn more on the topic and be able to master the pen :D Hahah, I had some issues with actually writing with the pen. It looked like a Kindergartener’s handwriting :)

-Lauren Judge :)

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