Document Camera – Changing the way we see text
The Hovercam is a document camera that projects text onto the Smartboard by hovering over it, allowing projects to be seen by the whole class. The teacher uses this piece of equipment with mentor texts to teach mini-lessons or with students original work to illustrate good work habits. The level of visual stimulation the Hovercam […]
American Revolution E-book
Ten iPads were purchased for the 7th grade Social Studies classes for a project combining Social Studies and Language Arts. Students are required to analyze and evaluate primary source documents and write ASK style reflective statements. Utilizing the Adobe InDesign application, students can directly interact with historical texts on the iPads while simultaneously creating maps […]
Desktop Publishing Using Adobe Indesign
The literary magazine club, Miscellanea is an ongoing extracurricular activity that produces a yearly publication which is distributed to the high school students each spring. The use of a laptop with new page-making software will bring the designing of the magazine into the 21st century and also will enable more students to work on the […]
SMART Response Interactive Response System
The purpose of this grant is to enhance existing SMART Board technology within the middle school. Students are each assigned a remote which they can use to submit answers to prompts and questions presented on the SMART Board. The system can be used for pre-reading, prewriting, anticipatory sets and formal assessments. The most beneficial aspect […]
Interactive SMART Board Integration in Social Studies
The Social Studies Department, as part of its professional learning community and peer review project, is working to create teacher resources that are aligned with the new standards and reflect the new 21st century skills. The addition of two interactive SMART Boards will enhance the instruction for almost 500 students each day and will make […]