Camp yahoo contains an adults and childrens curriculum for grades 35 and 68 as well as a counselors

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• Camp yahoo contains an adults and childrens
  curriculum for grades 3-5 and 6-8 as well as a
  counselors guide and promotional material

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Some things that are covered in

• What is the internet?
• How the internet makes every day life easy?
• especially for students
• How to connect to the internet?

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• Camp Yahoo is designed to be used along with the
  Yahooligans web page.
• We use Yahooligans to teach web research by
  giving the students fun and interesting topics to
  research
• The students log on to Yahooligans put in their
  searches
• After doing their research the students rate the
  sites according to how useful it was in helping
  find the information they were looking for.

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To become a Camp Yahoo counselorLog on to

• www.Camp.Yahoo.com

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• GoCyberCamp is a Web-based learning environment
  for kids 8 to 12 where they can engage in a
  variety of online camp activities and make new
  friends.
• As virtual campers, kids learn about their world
  through online activities that parallel those at
  camp. Kids explore different environments through
  the online activities that promote
• Understanding of ecosystems
• Participation in outdoor activities
• Discovery of arts culture
• Learning about health and safety both out of
  doors and online
• Sharing ideas and experiences with others

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Other online tutorial sites
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Reading Soulmates A Cross-age tutoring program

• You remember
• 10 of what you read
• 20 of what you hear
• 30 of what you see
• 50 of what you see and hear
• 70 of what is discussed with others
• 80 of what is experience personally
• 90 of what you teach to someone else
• At The Pink House 3rd 5th grade students read
  to younger pre-k 2nd grade child
• Reading Soulmates promotes service and learning
  by allowing the older student to give back, by
  reading with and teaching skills to younger
  buddies, while learning various skills
  themselves.

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PINK HOUSE Webbing into Literacy

• Our goal
• (1) to teach basic skills from each of the MS
  Office programs
• (2) older students will use MS Office to interact
  do fun activities with their Reading Soulmates
  buddy.

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Microsoft Word

• Type summaries of the books read.
• Write letters to the author and characters.
• Write alternate endings.
• Write your own book.

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Microsoft Publisher

• Students work together to generate
  advertisements, pamphlets, book markets
  and movie posters about books read.
• Upon completion of a book the older student
  create a certificate for their Reading Buddy
• And present them with a book.

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Microsoft Excel

• Microsoft Excel can be extremely complicated,
  however it does not present any obstacle in this
  project.
• The basic functions are taught, such as, taking
  data that has been collected and putting it into
  MS Excel to create graphs and charts.
• Near the end of the project students graph and
  create charts from their surveys.
• Students who are more advanced will be provided
  one-on-one assistance to further explore MS
  Excel.  

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Microsoft Power Point

• Create Power Point Presentation on books read.
• Create an informative slide show that explain the
  books.
• Create a show outlining the plot
• Create a quiz slide
• Create a presentation regarding the main
  elements of a story.  

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Front Page

• Explore the anatomy of web pages and web quests.
  
• Create simple web pages and web quests.
• Create web quests and web pages on the books that
  they read.
• Through out the project the students will also
  maintain the Webbing into Literacy website.

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MS Outlook Express

• Partner with other community technology centers
  through the US and correspond via email.
• Learn about different cultures through e-pal
  program with third world countries.
• How to use MS Outlook Express to manage their
  email accounts as well as send email.

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Multimedia

• All students are learning how to use various
  types of multimedia equipment such as digital
  cameras, digital video cameras, microphones and
  audio recorders.
• Put these new skills to use in creating their web
  pages.
• Post pictures, videos and audio clips of the
  project in action onto the Webbing into Literacy
  web page.  

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Conclusion

• Upon completion (1) little buddies are
  presented with a book and a certificate that
  their BIG Buddy created in MS Publisher.
• (2) Big buddies are broken into groups
• Each group will create a training tool in their
  assigned Microsoft Office Program (i.e., the
  Front page group will create a web page and the
  MS Excel group will conduct surveys and create
  data table and graphs).
• Student's projects are limited ONLY to their
  imagination!!!

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Celebration

• Big buddies are rewarded with a Pizza Party and a
  15 gift card at Barnes Nobles
• Little buddies are rewarded with a pizza party
  and gifts from their Big buddy a special
  certificate and book to add to their personal
  library.