Caption: "We're Cruising Along the Information Superhighway!"
Cut out a black curving road from construction paper and add various Clip Art printouts of vehicles such as motorcycles, cars, taxis, etc. in various sizes. Make it more interesting by cutting out teachers' (or students') faces and putting them in the windows and in the driver and passenger seats of all the vehicles. If you don't have access to a digital camera, ask individuals to bring in photographs. You could even add web sites as pretend stores along the road.

Caption: "Keys to Success!"
Save styrofoam sandwich containers (or ask for a donation from a local restaurant). Cut the styrofoam containers in half and use each half as a keyboard key. Print out letters and glue them to the styrofoam containers and arrange them to represent a keyboard. You may want to print the home row letters on yellow paper. Attach the containers to a bulletin board with tacks or glue.

Caption: "Be Wise.... Watch Out For Computer Bugs!"
This would be an excellent bulletin board to display while teaching students about computer viruses. Make a large picture of a computer that has a sick look on its "face". Place a thermometer in the computer's mouth and an ice pack on the computer's head. Make "bugs" and place them to look like they are crawling all around the computer...making it sick. Information can be posted all on the board explaining how computers get a virus and how to protect a system from viruses. Better yet, students can research computer viruses and protection from viruses as a September Research Project. The information can be presented (using Hyperstudio or Corel Presentations) and then posted on the bulletin board as a reminder.

Caption: "Computers in the News!"
Ask students to watch for newsworthy computer articles. Have students write a review of the article and then mount the article and review on "disks" on the bulletin board. The background of the board could be newspaper.

Caption: "Wanted: Good Computer Skills!"
This practical bulletin board is easy to arrange. Find classified ads in which computer skills are required (you'll be surprised how many you find -nursing, mechanic, office positions, marketing, advertising, banking, etc.). Using the photocopier, blow them up to full page size. Cover your bulletin board with however many pages of ads you need. Put the words, "Wanted: Good Computer Skills" across the center of your board (overlapping the ads).

Caption: Catch These Sites on the Inter"net"
Use a blue background for this bulletin board. Find Internet sites that you want to direct your classes to and write the addresses for those sites on cut outs shaped like colored fish. String up fish nets (these can be purchased at the dollar store) and/or place clip art of a fishing pole on the board.

Caption: "Brush Up on Typing Skills"
Use a paint brush and large paint can clip art cutouts for this board. Place one can spilling paint labeled "Speed" and one can spilling paint labeled "Accuracy" on the left and right sides of your board. Use color behind the letters of your heading and put a paint brush sweeping across as if it painted behind it. Put drops of spilled paint for accents. Place the names of students who have the "best records" under each category.

Caption: "Fall Into the Habit of Managing Your Files"
Place clip art of different colored leaves and 'mini' computers around the border. You may place some leaves with common file extensions written on them 'falling' on the board. Use file folders and print different categories of filing on each. Information could be placed on the board in regards to when to "save", when to "save as" , when to back-up, and different places to "save" files.

Caption: "We're All Connected!"
Place a map of the world in the center of the bulletin board. Place cut-outs of various paper dolls that represent different ethnic groups around the outside. Use thumb tacks to tack string "joining" different areas on the world map.

Caption: "How Does Your Speed Measure UP?"
Using a blue background, have students make a large snowman and cut out snowflakes. Each snowflake has a student's name written on it. A large measuring stick marked with 35 wpm, 45 wpm, 55 wpm is placed on the board. The students’ snowflakes are then put on the board between their wpm level. It is like measuring the depth of the snow. Those students who are below the lowest wpm level make up the snow on the ground. Students who may be above the highest wpm level are placed above as if they are falling. (All the Right Type and/or Typin' Time are available software programs that students can use to track typing skills).