SBTS EdTech

* Instead of writing letters to the President, Mosby Woods is using Pixie 2 to send class slideshows to the President.

* Little Run’s after school computer club is using Scratch to program animated slideshows.  These will be posted on the school’s website.

*Kindergarten students at Laurel Ridge are using Pixie 2 to draw addition and subtraction problems.

* Students at Wakefield Forest

*Olde Creek is using teacher created online Aspire assessments to help guide instruction and become familiar with the interface.

*Canterbury Woods has been having students create videos using their choice of photostory, moviemaker, or a combination of digital video for a classroom projects.  The students were required to complete storyboards prior to beginning their projects.

o       Fifth grade students are using Inspiration to create descriptive papers that focus on the setting.  After converting their information to Words to publish their papers the students then gather images related to their topics and compose a photo story which includes the reading of their descriptive writing piece.

Mrs. Tenney’s Kindergarten class as WSES is compiling a Photo Story on our Hero of the Month; Thurgood Marshall.  Students have been researching and learning about Thurgood Marshall this month and the many contributions he made to our country.  Students will provide, among other things,  the voiceovers that will accompany the photos for this project.  Students are very excited to learn about this influential American icon.

Sunrise Valley and McNair students are exploring the possibility of using ThinkQuest as a way for the GEMS (Girls Excelling in Math and Science) students to collaborate with girls at other schools around the nation.

Navy is gearing up for Global Awareness by learning new tech skills every other week.  5th graders will create movies using Windows Movie Maker, MMTK, Pixie, Inspiration, and the web.

At Terraset, students collaborate to create video tutorials for other students. They work in pairs, select a topic, come up with a storyboard and a script and use the SMARTBoard recorder to capture their actions and their voice. Teachers post these tutorials on their 24-7 sites and use them for unit or SOL review. Students also work with teachers from other grade levels so that the older kids make videos for the younger kids. See the movies at: http://www.fcps.edu/TerrasetES/.  A third grade teacher has created her own customized Google Search for Ancient Greece.  View it at: http://tinyurl.com/9xhrj8

Hunters Woods—Arts Integration Celebration begins in February! Every class creates a project integrating the arts with the curriculum.  Look for projects that combine Art w/Geometer’s Sketchpad!

Crossfield-second grade students are using Pixie to create web pages for the reading responses.  This idea was student generated!

McNair ES has an after school computer club.  This month a student is teaching Sim City, then they’ll do 2 months of GEMS, then a month of robotics, followed by a month of student-taught Scratch.

Oak Hill 6^th graders are working on Stop-Action animation videos to illustrate causes of the American Revolution.  They’ll use digital cameras and Windows Movie Maker to present skits of some of the events leading up to the American Revolution.  Fourth graders are working on creating Google Lit Trips with their Literature Circle novels.  They’re collecting websites, web photos, and probing questions in their group Wiki and then copy/pasting their information into Google Placemarks to create tours based on the book they read.