{"id":151,"date":"2009-10-19T10:54:19","date_gmt":"2009-10-19T14:54:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/etechplace.org\/clough\/?p=151"},"modified":"2009-10-23T11:02:24","modified_gmt":"2009-10-23T15:02:24","slug":"kindergarten-trackpad-practice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/etechplace.org\/clough\/?p=151","title":{"rendered":"Kindergarten Trackpad Practice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/etechplace.org\/clough\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/Pumpkin-300x212.jpg\" alt=\"Pumpkin\" title=\"Pumpkin\" width=\"300\" height=\"212\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-158\" srcset=\"https:\/\/etechplace.org\/clough\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/Pumpkin-300x212.jpg 300w, https:\/\/etechplace.org\/clough\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/Pumpkin.jpg 815w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>One of the most important technology skills for kindergarten students to master is using the trackpad to manipulate what is on the screen.  The click and drag is especially challenging for them. So in my kindergarten classes this week I have been taking the students to a website where I have gathered together several sites for practicing the click and drag.  A very cool one, especially for this month, is where they click and drag to carve a pumpkin.  Check out the <a href=\"http:\/\/teachers.henrico.k12.va.us\/staffdev\/clough_d\/Websites\/TrackPad.html\">Trackpad Practice<\/a> site for yourself and bookmark it for your students.  Oh, and make sure that your kindergarten students practice typing their names on the computer, using Shift to make a capital letter.  That&#8217;s another important technology skill for them to master.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the most important technology skills for kindergarten students to master is using the trackpad to manipulate what is on the screen. The click and drag is especially challenging for them. So in my kindergarten classes this week I have been taking the students to a website where I have gathered together several sites&#8230; <\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/etechplace.org\/clough\/?p=151\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[18],"class_list":["post-151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kindergarten","tag-websites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/etechplace.org\/clough\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/etechplace.org\/clough\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/etechplace.org\/clough\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/etechplace.org\/clough\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/etechplace.org\/clough\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=151"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/etechplace.org\/clough\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":159,"href":"https:\/\/etechplace.org\/clough\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151\/revisions\/159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/etechplace.org\/clough\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/etechplace.org\/clough\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/etechplace.org\/clough\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}