Digital Media in the Classroom
An excellent example of teachers and students using digital media in the classroom is Nathan Hale’s 10th Grade Academy. These students are creating movies about the effects of worldwide epidemics as a...
View ArticleDigital Storytelling at SBOC
What makes the Secondary Bilingual Orientation Center unique is their student body. Students who come to the SBOC are newcomers to the United States often with little English and limited formal...
View ArticleA Middle School Teacher Uses Photostory for the First Time
Barbara Beers, 8th grade geography teacher at Whitman Middle School, was tired of using Power Point for student projects. (She’s not alone, a fun video – How Not to Use Powerpoint.) With the support of...
View ArticleLowell Students Use a Webquest to Explore Environmental Challenges
Students in Dustin Wood’s classroom used a webquest to explore current environmental problems facing Earth. Students worked in teams to develop presentations about a particular topic (e.g.,...
View ArticleEmbarking on a 3D Journey
This year 16 students and a teacher from Denny Middle School embark upon their own journey into Skoolaborate. Skoolaborate is an international online learning community that incorporates a blog, a...
View ArticleStudent Sends Video to Climate Conference
As Molly Freed, a Chief Sealth HS Junior, studied climate change in her Global Leadership class, she recognized her growing frustration about the condition of the world she and her generation would...
View ArticleBeyond 3D Journey
This year Ms. Clausen’s 8th grade class at Denny Middle School embarked upon their own journey into Skoolaborate. Skoolaborate is an international online learning community that incorporates a blog, a...
View ArticleField Trip, Google Map and Class Wiki
Teacher Kent Daniels tapped the power of web 2.0 tools as he planned, tracked and documented a recent class field trip. He used Google maps to plot out the trip, including descriptions about the...
View ArticleThe Cleveland “High Five” Project
The project began with the age-old question, “When we will ever use this information?” The students asked. In response, Steve Pratt and Jeff Taylor–a 9th grade physical science teacher and world...
View ArticleSeattle World School Film Projects
This year our first cohort of 9th grade students studied a unit on the history of language in World History class. To further their understanding and to communicate their learning with others, the...
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