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2008-2009 Technology Showcase Awards
Congratulations to the following award winners for their technology mini-grant submissions.
- Brenda Beiswenger, 4th Grade at Myhre
- Chad Even, 6th Grade at Myhre
- Mike McHugh, BTC Aviation
- Elizabeth Pickett, Music at Will-Moore
- Barb Sandstrom, 5th Grade at Roosevelt
In addition to the specific projects these individuals submitted, they responded to questions about how they and their students use technology with the following list:
- Record student music creations and playback for critique
- Record student music to share with families and provide evidence of improvement
- Teacher created PowerPoint presentations to add visual appeal and connections for students
- Use of UnitedStreaming to introduce or reinforce concepts
- Use of webquests particularly for social studies and science
- Creation of written work electronically
- Use of student response systems
- Electronic planners
- Use of Googledocs to share class presentations and notes and seamlessly post them to classroom website
- GoogleDocs has facilitated collaboration and feedback processes. Students can easily collaborate on presentations that they are preparing for the class, because all students can access it. The students can work together from home, and the instructor has the ability to see what each student has accomplished, and when they completed it.
- Use of classroom website to post class information and student products
- Teacher and student use of the ActivBoard and ActiVotes
- Use of Brainpop to introduce topics and assessment student knowledge
- Use of a class wiki space
- Use of digital cameras for poetry images and claymation
- Use of iMovie to demonstrate learning
- Use of blogs to respond to literature
- Use of the internet to locate accurate and relevant information
- Use of electronic timeliners to organize and synthesize information
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Brenda Beiswenger
Project Description: This project focused on helping students exploring the writing trait of voice. Classroom time was spent reading books that had a distinct voice. Students then picked an inanimate object, planned a story with Kidspiration, and wrote their draft. The instructor modeled each stage so that the students had a clear vision of their objective. Once students had a draft they conferenced with the instructor, edited their story, and drew corresponding pictures in KidPix. The final project was an iMovie showcasing the pictures made in KidPix with audio of the student reading his/her story.
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Barb Sandstrom
Project Description: This project has a slightly different goal than the others. The project focuses on helping students use technology to stay organized and to communicate with their parents. The instructor designed an electronic planner template and placed a copy in each student's network folder. Students are able to login to the computer, complete their planner information, and email the planner to themselves and their parents. A prerequisite to this project is the facilitation of students acquiring SENDIT email addresses.
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Chad Even
Project Description: The primary focus of this project was to engage students in learning about pieces of the solar system that are part of the science standards but not included in the astronomy curriculum unit. The instructor presented students with a project rubric and provided a 15 minute tutorial on PowerPoint and nine websites for use as part of their research. The students worked in pairs and were give three 45 minute class periods to research information required as part of the rubric and present their information in a PowerPoint.
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Solar System - Charon
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Solar System - Red Spot
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Elizabeth Pickett
Project Description: This project is focused on helping students compose music using the elements of form, tempo, texture, timbre, etc. Students are expected to draw on their music knowledge from the past to compose a song. The objectives of the lesson included:
- Students will learn how to create songs through the Garageband software program.
- Students will learn how to loop, cut, copy, and record tracks.
- Students will enhance their musical concepts of beat, tempo, form, rhythm, and timbre.
- Students will learn how to apply their own knowledge about Garageband.
When the compositions were finished students presented their songs to the class for classroom analysis and teacher evaluation.
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Mike McHugh
Project Description: This project was called "FlySpace." As part of the project students were required to research a person, group of people, or event in aviation history. The students then took the information that they found and created a profile for this person or group of people (similar to a MYSpace profile). The profiles were created using a wiki.
On the wiki site, the instructor created a template and sample profile which students uses and modified to create profiles.
Students were engaged in the project, and were enthusiastically conducting research on their historical figure. Students were required to write from the perspective of the historical person, and be creative in the posts, pictures and other content that they add to their page. As students befriended other historical figures, and talked to each other, they thought critically about what their person might say. All of this required higher order thinking skills as they synthesize information to create the profile.
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